Category Archives: technology

I can see your house

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 July 23 by Anton

View from high above a neighborhood where I spent quite a lot of time between 1971 and 1981; much has changed since then. Elsewhere: Dad’s house, which is new, is not visible – I can’t even identify his street. 2004: … Continue reading →

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the fatal flaw

Posted on Friday, 2003 July 18 by Anton

Vanessa Layne observes (in mail): One of the significant problems in the marketplace for office automation software is that the person who uses it is almost never the person who decides to buy it. The feedback loop is never closed, … Continue reading →

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argh

Posted on Monday, 2003 June 16 by Anton

Another thing I’d like to know is why I was able to run cdrecord on Red Hat 6.2 but not on 7.1 or 9. Later: The CDR had gone bad in the interim. I replaced it with a DVD/CD burner.) … Continue reading →

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what do they want?

Posted on Friday, 2003 June 06 by Anton

I’m working on my first nontrivial bit of text-parsing: a little program to extract search-strings from my HTTP logs. Unfortunately (but naturally) each search-engine has its own conventions and so I may never identify all the relevant fields! I’m using … Continue reading →

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