Reconfigure
Notoriously resistant to (for practical purposes, afraid of) change.Trying powernow-k8 again
Nov 28, 2005 [12:08]
Cant see any way out. The bios does not have anything remotely
resembling AMDK7NOW! which the driver is looking for. (*sigh*).
Emacs: I've split the emacs configuration into various files which are loaded by the .emacs.
If your car were emacs : here.
Also met GNU ID Utils while trying to find how the people work with crossrefernce in source trees (that of linux kernel, say). I use etags at work, but it gives false jumps at times. I guess I've to look at the command line options a bit closer.
There is an emacs interface (a bit thin one, though) to call the gid program (to query
the ID database) giving it any string to look up. The way I see it, its effectively
indexing the find - grep combination. More reading on the ID utils remain. If it is
capable of differentiating definition and reference of various language entities it
would be cool.
More emacs.
Nov 25, 2005 [13:51]
Recent Emacs thingies
I started using gnus at work.
Started using emacs-snapshot-gtk package (from Debian). And a win32 build of emacs 22.0.50 at work.
Wrote some elisp to send multipart alternative (for html mail and plain text). This needs some fixing though; It does not put the content-type for the plain text part and many mail clients would not would not show the plain-text content.
Learned about putting window configuration in registers (I could not stop telling people about it for a couple of hours). Now I don't use frames (at-least I for the reason I had before this piece of learning).
I am all sold out on Emacs.
HTML Mail
BTW, do not think that I am for HTML mail. Its just that the M$ outlook and many other clients (and Gmail) show plain text in variable width fonts (when I want fixed width font to show off my ascii-art signature). They say HTML mail is rude.
Recent findings
Just found that the 'netiquette guidelines' is an RFC ! and that (mail) clients are supposed to assume the 'default' Content-Type (which is text/plain with us-ascii encoding) as per RFC 2045 (Sec 5.2 - let me know if I did not read it enough). I wonder why that Thunder-bird was not showing the plain text alternative in my gnus made mail. The only problem that is apparent is the absence of Content-Type.
OT: Scott Adam's blog is here.
Yay ! found it.
Nov 25, 2005 [13:47]
Just found this variable that should fix the problem. Quote the help on mml-insert-mime-headers-always:
mml-insert-mime-headers-always's value is t Documentation: If non-nil, always put Content-Type: text/plain at top of empty parts. It is necessary to work against a bug in certain clients. You can customize this variable. Defined in `mml'.
Looks like, in emacs, solutions just wait there to be discovered.
permanent link Comments (0)Asher Sterkin and blosxom
Nov 16, 2005 [12:05]
Been to a small presentation by Asher Sterkin today morning. Looks like the last month has been the teach-anil-month for everything around teach me about avoiding un-necessary detail. I've not been a good teacher at all. I remember my sister yawning when my teaching 'sessions' reach their full swing. Many of my friends also follow the same pattern. My managers and peers start looking elsewhere (probably trying to avoid yawn and related insult they believe they might be bestowing me with).
Time to set things right on that front I guess. Asher Sterkin (Principal Engineer of NDS Israel) reminded me about importance of reducing clutter (in short). Also that people start doing yawning and other funny things when their brains are to simultaneously comprehend 9 or more stimulii (or more technically: thingies).
Two nice references that Mr Sterkin suggested are:
- The structure of 'THE' multiprogramming system (Dijkstra)
- Science and Sanity (Korzybski)
Yesterday I decided to fix the comments and archive viewing facility for this blog. I setup the writeback plugins (now you are actually free to express your disgust on having come here). The plugin is a quite simple perl program just like the blosxom.cgi (the main script thingy). Infact its so simple that I was scared to put it in. It has some filtering to remove html tags (so no '<' and '>'). However I had to tweak it to make it not accept empty name and comment body.
The hcoop look episode appears to have gotten some attention. But still lot of things are to be answered; like:
The general policy regarding the use of images. Can they be high ? Should we have the gnu.org and other simplistic styles (I love them) or some of those multi billion dollar corporate portals (with one image for every thumb sized area of their screen).
The logo colors need adjustment. The primary colors were not exactly things that you can build themes on.
permanent link Comments (0)Got my bike back
Nov 12, 2005 [12:46]
Got my bike back: 'Just the spark plug' was the problem. Spark plugs have tremendous consequence-to-size ratio. May it be burning fuel or spoiling your daily schedule.
Getting back on OpenGL programming. So much has changed since I last wrote an opengl program. There are tons of extensions to play around with. Tried getting antialiasing to work on my screensaver using the GL_MULTISAMPLE_ARB without caring to look for the pixel format setup that is to be done. NeHe does not have a Linux/GLX version of this tutorial.
permanent link Comments (0)Bikickboxing
Nov 09, 2005 [23:37]
Long ago I stood kicking at my bike's kicker. Last night it wasn't for the same reason. Yesterday it konked right after it got out of my office basement.
Cough-Puff-Sputter..
I checked the spark plug: it appeared to work (I pulled it out and tried kicking at the starter and sparks appeared - blue ones). The fuel line was also fine. That to my scare exhausted the simpler of the problems (and solutions).. hmm.. now its sweating time. I left the system at office. Back in my room all sortsa thoughts came to me, including these : Something blocking the exhaust ? the air intake ? the carburettor in a mess (as was one of the power transistors in my old UPS when it blew up). Can't figure out how I got any sleep.
Today, the super men (a.k.a technicians from the service station) arrive and pull out
the spark plug, do the same thing that I did yesterday (except that he decided things
differently than me), pop the air intake tube (to the carb, that is), kick a few times
and it starts. What I did not do is - not put a new plug, not use the my thumb to block
the air intake and kick till I got a petrol spray from the spark plug socket. Its now
with them (taken in for check up on other parts). I am without my bike :((
To ease up a bit this is what I did:
Holidays are over for now
Nov 06, 2005 [22:15]
That brings this year's official holiday burst to a close. Mostly I was able to do some drawing and play doom3.
Now I have friends suggesting that I start investing money in something that gave returns (Like booking an apartment or something). I have a certain mental block towards taking loans from banks. Too many stories talking about failure with loans than successes. Well, thanks to them for the suggestion. But if somebody could help me with my anxiety, it woulda been cool.
permanent link Comments (0)Is the machine getting old ?
Nov 05, 2005 [23:54]
I suppose my machine is getting old. Its just a year and 5 months old, the gear lever creaks despite yesterday's service. Does not feel fresh the way it used to after a service. It may be that the service station has ripped me off (I would be happy if that is the case).
New resolution of mine w(sh)ould be to use my mouth. Lack of communication has resulted
in the service guy fixing the focus my bikes head lamps when what I really wanted was to
have him adjust the tilt it had. *swear*
Just a day of the longest official-holiday series this year left :(.
Easier splines.
Nov 04, 2005 [12:30]
Finally shapes that use splines appear easy to create. Now tools includning blender and inkscape (first one, I tried after a long gap) have all the controls for manipulating control points and segments of bezier splines.
Hcoop logo concpet shortlist :
- Globe/Earth (internet) : With orbits (The way one of the original logo suggestions had)
- RJ45 connector (network)
- Quadrilaterals and monitors (web pages)
- PCB lands (electronics).
- Servers ! (Thats a handful to put in a logo).
Island of working day
Nov 03, 2005 [12:30]
A bay (or island) of working days in the middle of holidays. Its kinda slow till afternoon where I get news about a 'point' release to be made. Also got to check the way the web page looks on IE; As expected the style appeared funny. IE makes the later style specs overwrite the earlier ones. Got to put in a neater fix.
The new muse-el publishes blosxom files using C-c C-p but blows the title line. The title remains the same as the mangled file name.
Just linked the ascii-art stuff to the home page. *Nostalgia*. I've got too many diverse interests pulling
together in different directions. I guess I should snap a few off and get my bearings right.
First copy of pages
Nov 01, 2005 [07:20]
Ok. I've put the first copy of my new set of home page. The photo album is now shown by a little perl program.
But the blosxom thingie is not working well with the muse thingie. Cant
get it to be published to the correct category using C-c C-p. Gotta run
muse-publish-this-file and type in all the parameters :(.
Played doom 3 online yesterday (as a matter of fact I've been doing that for the last one week). The difference is : I was not not kicked out yesterday. The earlier rounds resulted in my being thrown out for spectating and not being ready on time.
permanent link Comments (1)About folding protiens
Nov 01, 2005 [07:20]
(From Slashdot a few days ago): Throwing neatly folded protiens.
Man I kinda enjoyed the way it was talked about.
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