Category Archives: neep-neep

symptom

Today I saw a Windows reboot script on one of BART’s new ticket machines.

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my aging infrastructure

I was not distressed to learn that this Power Mac 4400 (bought in 1997) is too old for MacOS X – until I found that Mozilla is not available for MacOS 8.

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damned Redmond again . . .

So this personnel agent asks me to add some items to my résumé and mail it to her. No sweat. I keep the thing in HTML, because it’s convenient and relatively efficient. But when my agent gets it, oh dear, … Continue reading

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computer graphics in the old days

about tomaken – look at the source for a chuckle. (link from Redmaiden)

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what do they want?

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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do you speak Algol?

DigiBarn Posters: Mother Tongues of Computer Languages

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801kb of one-fisted joy

JPEG Baby – A Love Song For The 21st Century

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