Mon Mar 01 1999 14:58:
Yay, March. I don't have automatic archiving yet, but I should by
next month. The archiver is going to be a separate program, possibly a cron
job.
Mon Mar 01 1999 15:13:
Oooh, oooh, oooh Mistah Kotter! Now I must do elaborate HTML header/footer
programs and make all my files .shtml files so that I can include their
magic!
Mon Mar 01 1999 21:22:
Today's quote: (I was attempting to give Mark directions to my house
and failing because I can't label the streets properly.)
"All this is network level stuff. I operate on the application level."
Thu Mar 04 1999 12:48:
Jay Selzberger is my hero.
Thu Mar 04 1999 22:10:
In flagrant violation of the Law of Travelogues ("Never start a
travelogue if you already have pending travelogues"), I present
my preliminary
my LinuxWorld Expo travelogue, covering my whirlwind tour of
LWE and so much more, in a single day.
Fri Mar 05 1999 15:04:
My latest
innovation is not up yet (I have to make the footer into a CGI), but you can take a look at it.
Fri Mar 05 1999 20:20:
Cower before the might of the document tree generator!
Sat Mar 06 1999 16:21:
I now have a header script which makes everything right, and can
also be used to enforce uniform color schemes and such across the site. As you can
see, it has an option to do random colors for everything instead.
Isn't it hideous? I feel like the guy who invented the .
Sat Mar 06 1999 19:40:
The automation continues. Every footer-equipped page now has a view
source link. I'm going to need to do a library for all these similar
programs.
Sun Mar 07 1999 09:09:
I put up a devel page, which has descriptions and
source viewer links to some of the programs I've written. I ditched
the old source viewer as unworkable, and whipped up a new one that,
instead of looking at a list to see what documents can have their
source viewed, looks at a list to see which documents can't
have their source viewed. This makes it possible to have a view source
link in the footer, and lets me do a real devel page instead of trying
to hack tho capability into the viewer, which really can't handle it.
Mon Mar 08 1999 07:58:
Slashdot: "Stanley Kubrick dies". It's not often that you get a good
strong active voice in an obituary.
Wed Mar 10 1999 09:53:
All the BAH/HumBug bug reports I've gotten so far pertain to
Kraftwerk, and have not been bug reports to much as comments. I
think I may have to turn it into a comment form. But what is it
about Kraftwerk that compells people to fill out BAH/HumBug reports?
I don't know.
I just got a catalog from Heartland America. They somehow
discovered that I mentioned them on NYCB (months ago),
found my mailing address (I've moved since I mentioned them),
and sent me their catalog, despite the fact that my mention in NYCB
was a total bashfest. I don't see how else this one obscure catalog company would have
been able to connect my name with the set of people who had heard of
them. And yet, they were smart enough to track me down, but not smart enough
to realize that I think of their catalog as only good to mock. People reading this: find my street address and email it to me.
I'd like to know how you did it. Wed Mar 10 1999 18:53:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Wed Mar 10 1999 19:05:
Oh, and a piece of happy news. While the world waits for me to
get my Linux recording act together, I have conversed with Jake
and we will be releasing a beta version of OMP!(25K-4)YOPPO, consisting of
about 20 tracks, on MP3. These will be live and not-very-well-recorded
tracks, much like the NST tracks. This will be my first release in a year and
a half, and will tide the maniacs over until I redo OMP!(25K-4)YOPPO
on the computer (this involves learning the tools, of course, but
that's a one-time cost). Mrs. Irby will be pleased.
Thu Mar 11 1999 07:15:
Whew! Give your eyes a rest. I showed the random colors to JB and
he said "Messing around with Javascript?". Nope. It's all done on
the server. No more, though. It's back to the standard dull paper
look.
Thu Mar 11 1999 20:31:
Lynx users, rejoyce! The notebook program will now give you a big
honkin' trunk 50-line notebook to make up for the
unaddability of lines to a textarea field in lynx. I may have resizing
of the notebook for Lynx users, actually, eventually.
I need to get started on my Java RMI project.
Fri Mar 12 1999 05:58:
I now have a software notebook for putting my freshmeat appindex
entries and other software links in. It's easy, with the notebook
program!
The other thing I want to do is have a hook that you can have executed on the text of your notebook entry. So I can <pre> the freshmeat entries, and put the time formatting thing in there for the other notebooks. That will have to wait until I move everything over to Python.
Fri Mar 12 1999 19:05:
Ho ho ho ho ho. I have a basic RMI grep up and running. The hard part
is over. The other part is also hard, but is more interesting. My aim
is to be able to plug in some keywords and have the server look in
the source text crossword-puzzle-wise for your words, a la The
Bible Code. The part I'm goig to do for CS131 is just a windowed
grep, possibly a multidimensional windowed grep.
I need to find out how to make an RMI server unregister itself from the registry instead of killing the registry every time I change the server. I smell it in java.rmi.Naming.
Sat Mar 13 1999 08:27:
It seems that my document tree generator does not
generate valid 4.0 HTML. Maybe I should actually find out what
the DD tags do before using them all over.
I'll fix it later. Right now I'm redoing the notebook program.
Sat Mar 13 1999 10:13:
I'v always suspected the Register writers were weird, but
I'm starting to think they might actually be high
as well.
Sat Mar 13 1999 10:30:
Today is Rachel's birthday. Happy birthday, Rachel. She is 16. I remember
being 16. Man, I'm old.
Today is also L. Ron Hubbard's birthday. Funny old thing, life.
Sat Mar 13 1999 14:50:
No new TATC functionality, save the ability to unbind the server,
but the interface
is a lot better and it's all nicely object-oriented now. I've run
it both locally on fire and from kuato, so there really is RMI
happening and I'm not just fooling myself. I'll probably spend the
rest of the day hacking on this and then Sunday on stuff for Peter.
Sun Mar 14 1999 14:39:
TATC now works locally (not through RMI) if you have all the classes
on your system. This is good for me begause it was driving me crazy bringing
the server up and down whenever I changed anything. I almost have
it doing the basic windowed grep, which is about as far as I
will go (yes, sir!) for the 131 project.
Shocking come-on found in GNU General Public License! Man, TATC is great. It only looks backwards and forwards at the
moment (the hard part is not looking in other directions but in
generating boxes for those other directions), and lacks almost all real functionality, but I can already jump
to ridiculous, unwarrented conclusions about pieces of arbitrary
text. The actual run looks like this: Sun Mar 14 1999 15:57:
EWHOS
SFORO
ESEXT
IREWH
OEACH
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking for "sex" in http://crummy.segfault.org/code/gpl.txt
012345
1EWHOS
2SFORO
3ESEXT
4IREWH
5OEACH
"sex" found at (2,3)
Step: (1,0)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hit enter to continue.
Sun Mar 14 1999 18:58:
Oh man. I'm so close to having TATC do arbitrary-step searching.
The implementation of the bit that makes the text block is brilliant.
I just have to do more experiments and fine-tune the equations.
Sun Mar 14 1999 21:10:
TATC To-do list:
I have left-right and up-down searches working.
Mon Mar 15 1999 19:15:
I think I just ruined a whole batch of pasta. I'll never make that mistake again.
Tue Mar 16 1999 17:54:
I now have a full working version of TATC. It takes about a minute
to search through a megabyte of text with a given row length. This
is a big improvement over the other method. I don't have a time for the
other method, but this is a big improvement. The improvement comes
from noting where all the occurances of the first letter of the
key are and putting them into a list, then just using the characters
on the list instead of going through the whole text again and
again (cause it sounded good to me).
Unfortunately, it can't handle much more than a megabyte of text at a time (at least on fire) before it runs out of memory. No way around this, I think, as the Java VM is a resource hog (fire is running at 1.7 load average, sorry guys).
I have another idea to speed up the search, but I need a letter frequency chart. Hey, I have Perl and a bunch of text, I can just make a letter frequency chart.
Mmm, potstickers.
Tue Mar 16 1999 20:40:
Perserverance!
Sleep!
Wed Mar 17 1999 15:19:
Rehrehrehrehreh! Behold
leonardr
vs. Demon Dog! Coming soon to a theater near you!
That is me, as of a couple minutes ago, and the ever-present Demon Dog, always eager to lead humans astray. Yes I am in a silly mood right now.
TATC is done, as far as the project is concerned. I tried to put in a thing that would find the rarest character in your key and build a list based on that, and in doing so totally screwed up the block-finding stuff. So I'm just not going to do that for the project. I'll put up what source I have eventually.
I have to shop around for a summer internship, too. I need to work at somewhere besides MAP. Somewhere where I can do UNIX and Web stuff.
Thu Mar 18 1999 14:26:
I need to get my dial-up connection working on Debian so I can start
hooking up my mega-automated personal web server stuff. I think
I'll work on that some right now. I'm so sick of studying for finals.
Sat Mar 20 1999 08:16:
You might think I'd be studying for finals, but I've actually been
wasting my time on the Chamber Of
Horrors, which tells me (and you) how long until my finals.
Sat Mar 20 1999 08:18:
Someone reading NYCB might get the impression that I never study
for finals at all. This is just an artifact of the fact that when I
am studying for finals, I don't put entries in NYCB about it. See
that big gap from Thursday to Saturday? Studying for finals.
Sun Mar 21 1999 21:34:
I have been busy studying all day, but I cannot let the day go by
without paying tribute to the mighty one, rightful designant of the
calendrical system, J.S. Bach, born on this day in 0 AB (1685 by the common reckoning). The vernal
[occidental] equinox, no less. You see how it all fits together? I
normally try to avoid quoting the Music From the Hearts of Space
guy, especially when he espouses hokey New Agey theology, but I
really like this quote, the way you really like anything that you
heard when you were half-asleep and thought was cool: Safe
journeys, Sebastian, wherever you are.
Mon Mar 22 1999 19:59:
Well, I should get about an 80 on my LS final. The great thing about
multiple choice tests is that you can probabilistically predict
your score (as long as you're good at not lying to yourself). Now the
pain of the math final looms, but after that it's clear sailing.
Wed Mar 24 1999 15:45:
I would like to say, well in advance of the actual conclusion, that
I had nothing to do with it. Nothing. I disclaim any credit
for the idea. Everyone might think it's a great idea, and then I might
be made to look stupid for saying this, but even if other people think
it's great, I don't want the credit for this idea. It's too easy, too
unsubtle. That's not the leonardr way.
What am I talking about? You'll find out.
Wed Mar 24 1999 17:52:
Woohoo! My name is in a README! The DailyUpdate README, to be exact.
Unfortunately, my actual code was not used, but at least I got credit for
an idea.
Tue Mar 30 1999 06:26:
Aah, aah. I woke up in the middle of the night with these awful
stomach cramps. Couldn't think of how to stop them, so I took a really
hot shower, which is my default remedy. It worked okay. How do you
stop stomach cramps?
Tue Mar 30 1999 12:50:
I am now the proud owner of an A in Math 114A. This is my first
math A ever. Well, since high school. This gives me hope for the
199 class.
Wed Mar 31 1999 06:07:
Don't worry, there's always Dada Pokey! And
whiskey.
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