Advogato blog for pjones

21 Apr 2003

Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:29:23 GMT

Ilan, do you participate in the LUG at NCSU? I don't recognize your name, but that's not indicative of much; I'm not good with names.

You speak of dissatisfaction with the state of the LUG, but whenever we ask for input as to what we could do to serve the needs of Linux users on campus more thoroughly, there's a dull silence and the sound of crickets. It's a serious problem; the LUG is quickly succombing to atrophy, with fewer and fewer members. We really want to grow, and to be a more inclusive group, but the people who are (supposedly) being excluded don't appear to be making any effort towards inclusion. What can we do?

10 Oct 2001

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:48:30 GMT

sej: I think you mean the halting problem, not the travelling salesman problem.

23 Sep 2001

Sun, 23 Sep 2001 03:43:39 GMT

Bryce: The blonde woman is Olga, his wife.

6 Sep 2001

Thu, 6 Sep 2001 23:17:26 GMT

Perl's DBI API sucks
Python's DBI API sucks

Oracle has the right idea for transactions; a transaction is a child of a connection, and a statement is a child of that. Perl and Python both assume that a connection is a transaction, and that really sucks.

Oracle sucks

OCIServerAttach() allocates some memory; its reciprocal function, OCIServerDetach(), frees 344 bytes less. That's right -- if you make a connection to Oracle, you're excersizing a memory leak.

30 Aug 2001

Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:51:23 GMT

So I wonder what it takes to get mirwin to certify you.

29 Aug 2001

Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:52:26 GMT

katzj: lots of questions still need answering though; not the least of which being intermediate bytecode execution and write-trapping. Oh, and deletion.

28 Aug 2001

Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:55:18 GMT

katzj: probably not. I think I told you the gest of it at chargrill once though.

28 Aug 2001

Tue, 28 Aug 2001 05:28:37 GMT

It occurs to me that I'm having ideas so bad that they just might work.

14 Aug 2001

Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:16:36 GMT

mbp: but what about yogurt?

12 Aug 2001

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 01:46:00 GMT

/me agrees with cturner.

In other news, I finished reading my second computer book :). Damn, ADD is a pain in the ass. Anyway, the book was See MIPS Run which I recommend photocopying; the author isn't very nice. Next in line: the dragon book.