IIS shall now be known as Intermittent Information Server
Just converted my mostly-encrypted home directory into a 'leet sparse disk image. So now, it takes a helluva lot less time to burn weekly backups to dvd-r, since I've only got about a gig and a half of work files and private documents :) And I do have another couple gigs free, which is a bonus.
I do miss using Vim for everything, anyone know if it's possible to rig textfields in OS X to act like Vim instead of emacs? :)
I was wondering about this, a while ago, when ActiveState ported Python to the .NET CLR and ended up with something terrible slow and missing a bunch of the standard library. Anyways, Kobra is a .NET wrapper for CPython. It's not as slick as something like PyObjC yet, but I suppose it'd be useful if you had to use Windows all the time.. but then again, you should probably be looking for a new job if you have to use Windows that often.
How do new projects get added to Advogato anyhow, is this a Master feature? Why isn't the article comment system tied to diary entries? Will I ever get an answer without a diary comment facility?
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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