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Name: Steve Wainstead
Member since: 2000-07-19 04:22:01
Last Login: 2009-06-01 01:35:14

Homepage: http://www.panix.com/~swain/

Notes:
I am the Director of Software Development for MyPhotoAlbum. My album is here: swain.myphotoalbum.com

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Lead Developer on PhpWiki
Lead Developer on LHHReplay

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28 May 2009 »

Today I finally emailed Pavel Curtis a note that I obtained a copy of the LambdaMOO code base, per Xerox's copyright notice. So far it hasn't bounced.

26 May 2009 »

Score one for SourceForge. Though I have to click through three pages to download a tarball (was that trip really necessary?), one can copy a CVS project wholesale with rsync. Found this out via Subversion's FAQ, which points to cvs2svn, which points to cvsclone, which has the instructions in a comment.

 Applying this tool to sourceforge.net or savannah.gnu.org is
 neither necessary nor recommended: With $1 being the project,
 you can simply
      rsync -av rsync://$1.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/$1/ $1

So rsync -av rsync://lambdamoo.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/lambdamoo/ lambdamoo-CVSROOT got me the whole CVS repository; pointing CVSROOT at it in my shell, I can check modules out locally. How fun is that? (Now, to convert it to git).

20 May 2009 (updated 20 May 2009 at 13:57 UTC) »

(defun hahahahaha()
  "descriptive string"
  (interactive)
  (jump-to-register ?1)
)

6 May 2009 »

Our photo sharing site is moving to a Flash based tool to show photos on things like coffee mugs. It's nice and all, but the downside is my Perl script "lhhreplay.pl" won't work with it. And I was so happy to have solved how to cross the http/https boundary. Hmm. Perhaps I should just create a proxy server to capture all the traffic and be done with it.

6 Nov 2008 »

Been a while since I posted anything; time for some new Emacs Lisp.

While waiting on cron, I find myself running "date" over and over to see when the top of the hour has arrived... but why not make the status bar do this for me? (I'm in shell mode usually).

Dunno how much this will punish your system; I'm running it via X11, displayed locally with no problems, and also in a terminal window on a remote server and there's no display flickering or anything.

;; check the man page for the 'date' command to format the
;; day/time differently..
(defun sw-display-seconds-in-status-bar ()
  "Make the clock display the seconds so I know when cron is
going to run..."
  (interactive)
  (setq display-time-interval 1)
  (setq display-time-format "%c")
  (display-time)
  )

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