http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/ 2012-02-06T12:14:39-07:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/ http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/lib/tpl/default/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-09-01T11:31:41-07:00 phil http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:debian_wheezy_on_btrfs_root?rev=1314898301&do=diff I was able to install Wheezy using kernel version 3.0 on a multi-device (RAID-1) btrfs filesystem, booting with GRUB 2 version 1.99 without an ext3/4 boot partition. The Debian installer refuses to install to a btrfs root without a boot partition, and doesn't know how to create a multi-device btrfs FS. So I installed onto a third HD with a boot partition and single-device FS. Then I booted from a LiveCD, partitioned my other HDs (with gdisk), created my new FS (mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid1 -L b… text/html 2011-08-16T14:45:45-07:00 phil http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:py2exe_uac_setting?rev=1313527545&do=diff The release notes for py2exe 0.6.9 (from 3 whole years ago) say that this version adds a feature to allow you to specify the necessary Windows Vista User Access Control level for your application. Indeed, this feature does exist. The release notes call the flag to utilize this feature uac_execution_info. The release notes are also the only place in the entire source tree where this string exists. text/html 2011-08-11T13:58:47-07:00 phil http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:virtualbox?rev=1313092727&do=diff user@linuxbox:~$ VBoxHeadless --help Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.0.10_Debian (C) 2008-2011 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. Usage: -s, -startvm, --startvm <name|uuid> Start given VM (required argument) -n, --vnc Enable the built in VNC server -m, --vncport <port> TCP port number to use for the VNC server -o, --vncpass <pw> Set the VNC server password -v, -vrde, --vrde on|off|config Enable… text/html 2011-07-19T22:08:46-07:00 phil http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/quotes?rev=1311134926&do=diff “Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?” -- Alan Kay, “Computer Software”, Scientific American, September 1984 text/html 2011-06-13T10:06:47-07:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/start?rev=1307981207&do=diff This is my personal wiki. I use it to record things I don't want to forget. Look around if you want. And now, a special limited time offer! Have you ever wanted to know what time it is in the alternate parallel universe where people asked me to design the international standard clock? Well now you can! text/html 2010-01-18T10:12:38-07:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:panel_urges_federal_government_to_meddle_in_the_private_lives_of_canadian_families?rev=1263834758&do=diff CBC: "Activities that boost children's “cardio-respiratory fitness” should be the focus of a federal tax credit, an expert panel urged Thursday as it outlined the types of activities and costs that should qualify." The war is over. The socialists won. text/html 2010-01-18T09:25:45-07:00 phil http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:the_emperor_s_new_ai?rev=1263831945&do=diff Machine Intelligences are not 'just around the corner', and if they were, they probably wouldn't change anything much, says The Register. I agree. <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/25/bogus_ai/> text/html 2010-01-18T09:25:12-07:00 phil http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:observations_on_arabs?rev=1263831912&do=diff Stephen Browne spent a year living in Saudi Arabia, and has some things to say about Arabs. <http://rantsand.blogspot.com/2006/09/observations-on-arabs.html> EDITED TO ADD: “Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped by Sunni Muslim insurgents in Baghdad on Jan. 7, 2006. Over the next 82 days, she had closer contact with Sunni insurgents than any American who has lived to tell the tale.” text/html 2010-01-18T09:24:30-07:00 phil http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:hello_world?rev=1263831870&do=diff int main(int argc, char ** argv) { printf("Hello, world!\n"); } I wonder what language the first Hello World program was written in?