Bad advice, running around loose.
In utterly unrelated news: This week I shared an office with someone who sounds to me as if she’s from some unfamiliar part of Australia but is in fact from Derby. Learn something every day.
My fullerene page was the first webpage I made, in 1998. The C programs whose output is shown there – to enumerate pentagon-hexagon topologies, and to estimate their 3D shapes – were lost years ago; I wanted to improve and extend them anyway.
I’ve worked on the new search program (in Python) at long intervals. Last weekend, a version with all the essential features ran, up to 24 faces. The bad news is that the file of partial solutions – on which the program would have built to proceed to 32 faces, and so on – was 5 gigabytes. I’ll need a more efficient way to handle partials, or else to abandon the concept.
to boldly go where no penguin has gone before (link from Monty Solomon)
netfilter project was granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom GmbH
“To my knowledge, this is the first case in which a judicial decision has been decreed on the applicability and the validity of the GNU GPL”, says Dr. Till Jaeger, partner of the Berlin and Munich based law firm JBB Rechtsanwaelte that represented the netfilter/iptables project in the litigation.
I thought I had succeeded in setting up a dual-boot machine, but —
Booting 'Windows XP' rootnoverify(hd0,4) chainloader +1
and it stops there. Hanh?
Oh well, better that than the other way around (Windows but no Linux).
Much later: Lei at GigaBox told me that Red Hat’s partitioner wrecks the boot block that Windows needs; I should try again, using the Windows setup to partition the disk.