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how’s your German?

I’d love to have an English translation of the German comments in fullgen.c, a program that counts the polyhedra that can be made of pentagons and hexagons (i.e. fullerenes), so that I can modify it. (None of the output modes … Continue reading

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another one for Perry?

How many MacOS experts read this? When I launch Grapher, I get a Warning: Font Conflict Several characters (Greek letters, e.g.) cannot be displayed correctly because of a conflict between the installed fonts. If you are using MathType, please make … Continue reading

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life imitates art

In Bruce Sterling‘s wonderful novel Schismatrix (1985), the spaceship Red Consensus has an interesting feature: The control room . . . had been designed by some forgotten industrial theorist who believed that instruments should use acoustic signals. . . . … Continue reading

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the real reason

An acquaintance writes: Eudora remains my client of choice because I’m used to it My attitude is Augustinian: “Make me a LINUX user, but not quite yet.” I love the splash screen, which looks like an insane mailman manically throwing … Continue reading

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technology marches on

I had a bitch of a time uploading files for the new version of WordPress. It’s my first update since migrating from the Linux box to the Mac Mini, and the ftp client I have is crap compared to gftp … Continue reading

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the wonderful thing about standards

is that there are so many to choose from! Elsewhere in the wonderful world of webtoons, how to stand out from the crowd.

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possibly not one of my brightest ideas ever

If my new printer’s resolution is 1200 dots/inch, then a sheet of gringo-standard letter paper with half-inch margins can take an image of 9000 by 12000 pixels. As a test, therefore, I rendered one of my most complex Povray images … Continue reading

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