Older blog entries for brother (starting at number 7)

Hacking:
Well, somehow I missed the announcement of Potato. That can only mean that I work to much, so I don't have time for keeping up with Debian stuff.

Slash'Em has moved to SourceForge. A nice idea - Thanks Warren - Now I have marked it monitored subscribed all lists and what-else.

Used a lot of time looking at OSKit yesterday. It seems like it would make a funny toy for me. I wonder if I should buy a LIAB-card just for playing with OSKit. I assume OSKit runs on a 386EX but I think I must check before I buy one.

Work:
Spends a lot of time (re)reading the dragon-book. I think I've should have read it better when I followed the course in basic compiler techniques.

Conversation:
ask: Somewhere I've mentioned that there wasn't any Danes on Advogato, which clearly was wrong. It may have been in another forum. And then I was just trying to make excuses as I discovered Danes on the list of persons.

hexmode: Like you idea about a AdressBook-class for perl. AdressBook::BBDB and AdressBook::Palm would be nice to have.

A new version of Nethack is out. Let's hope this is more bugfree than 3.3.0. But I guess .0 always means "very buggy".

Work:
The usual stuff. Scheme is generally nice but types would remove a lot of my errors. I hate that Similix is mono-variant. fold and map is nice functions.

Hacking:
Have no time.

Sillyness: Yesterday during some boring discussion in a danish localization meeting I began wondering. Significant Other <-> SO <-> .so <-> Shared Object. Coincident?

Hacking: Began reverse engeneering "Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket". Danes doing swedish things -- what a wonderful world. I hope we could check SSLUGS swedish ispell dictionary against it in a few weeks.

I need a scm linked with readline. As a hacker I hate self-applicable interpretes needing themself for building. As an academic I see the nice perspective in it. If only I had the time....

Communiting:First meeting in Copenhagen.pm, 1600 hours, Globe (where ever it is, gotta find out).

I suddenly realize I forgot to read slashdot yesterday -- I don't miss it.

Work: Made to little the last days. I spend to much time reading and writing advogato diaries.

Misc: I don't really understands why people think the hounerable Bishop Berkley's philosophy. I simply don't get a kick out of all this minimalistic nonsense about perception and existance of the world. Life to short for that kind of thinking.

Work:
Nothing done.

Hacking
One more evening spend on debugging Slash'EM. I kind of found the problem. One of the ncurses function messes with a boolean value it shouldn't mess with. I think it's either a ncurses bug or something broken in my build environment. A strict typechecker would proberlly find the bug in no time. But this is C - There is no such thing as decent typechecks.

Usenetting:
A couple of people wrote on the danish net-abuse newsgroup about a danish spammer saying that public email addreses is an open invitation for spam. Spend some time educating the spammers. the danish laws is wonderful. It says specific that comercial emails is opt-in and not opt-out. Practicalli makes UCE illegal.

But spam of the type "Jesus Loves you" and maybe the multi-level-marketing "Make money fast" is still not illegal. And then there is all the foreign spam. We're not winning alone but we can do our share of the battle.




It's still fun coding Scheme

FYI

I could say that not counting ask as a dane was intentionel.

Not counting phk is clearly a mistake.

And jes is from Jylland I pressume.

Did I forget other danish long-time Advogators?

Random blabering

Why does it makes higb sad that Danes makes danish things?

Could it be that he doesn't understands the language? It makes me sad when people assumes that 7 bit is enoug for everybody - So Danish as a language turns into a technical obstacle to be conquered.

I hate when my computer starts speaking danish but I don't think kanikus agrees. But the freedom to use my computer to do danish things that is important. So tools so be able to work on danish text whild the tools themself speaks english.

Surprised to se other Danes on Advogato. Lets get all the members of sslug to put their diaries here. (I hope there's a lot of disk space free)

Work:

My evaluator for the Modal Mu-Calculus works perfect. Proberly not very fast, but it works. I wonder why it always is a problem finding decent set-implementation for a programming language. I ended up coding my own very naive sets. If anyone needs a good set implementation for scheme then write one and send it to me.

Hacking:

Nothing really fitting here these days. I almost predicted death of Usenet today.

More randomness

kanikus: Data technology must be something they teach on DTU. Diku is teaching Datalogi.

And for those non-danish speaking members of the Advogato community: Datalogi is the term Peter Naur inventet for somthing best descibed as Computer Science and Information Systems. Peter Naur was one of the Lead Developers on the Algol Reports. But I wouldn't certify him as Master for that reason.

The definition of Standard ML is much better.

YANI (yet another neat idea):

I need a way of quickly scan the Advogato diaries for references to my personal page. I havn't enough time to read all diaries. I'm sorry.

Yesterday evening
Found a bug in Nethack which doesn't seem to be on the buglist. It's not important for the game itself but I hate exiting a program to a broken tty. It doesn't seem to reset the tty proberly.

So I spend my evening listening to Swinging Bach on the tv while debugging Slash'EM/Nethack on my root account at home. Wouldn't have done that if I allready had xDSL but I'm only considering ordering it yet.

But I did manage to make a more uptodate slashem package for Debian but I would have been nice if I could have worked a little more on the packageing. (I better remember uploading it)

Todays todo
Almost half of my Debian bug are either fixed or non-issues. I should do something about it today.

And then I better do soem real (for money) work. Coding obscure fixpoint operators in scheme is harder as it seems. Scheme is a nice language, but I would have liked a little more syntaxical help with doing stuff as curried functions. But then again, doing stuff the hard for a change could be a nice experience.

Random thoughts
I wonder if it was a good idea to package sarien (don't have a url nearby). It is to much in a development state (and the developers would proberly agree) but I just thought it was nice playing all those old Sierra games one more time.

kernel-patch-int is also getting on my nerves. It's too much work splitting the free and non-free parts. I don't even have a 2.2.x kernel source to diff against after recovering from some really braindammaged partitioning.

Better try to write some of those - Not that anyone would care.

I've used all the day playing with xhtml1.0 and css. I didn't really got what I wanted but I think it turned out pretty good. Now my main page validates against xhtml1.0- strict and css and I think it lives up to the "Best viewed with AnyBrowser" mark.

I've started doing something about the danish freedict dictionaries. It should be integrated with the danish dictionary project but first we need to make a stabel implementation of the latter.

And all my debian packages need an overhaul

I shouldn't have returned from my vacation

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