The rants of a semi sane bastard.

Have a lame attempt at being both witty and arty:

I'll get back into my box now.

I've been building a wrapper class between two Vector math libraries (one is built in to the ClanLib engine and is lacking key operations, the other is feature full) and I wanted to see how we did the wrapper between ODE and Auran's Jet game engine when I was an the AIE. I have a copy of the code on my external drive and so I started having a browse.

Bellow the cut is a snippet of code that was a WIP. I guess I got board trying to work out the actual size of the terrain mesh and figured I'd work it out later.

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[edit]I miss those guys.[/edit]

Dear Lazy Web,

Could someone please write a specification and implementation of XHTML over XMPP so we can get rid of this AJAX cruft and have actual real time communication on websites?

Thanks

Adam.

God I love the Internet and all its messed up folk.

So grab some scissors and some glue cos it's craft time!

This week has been significantly better than the last one. I've tried to be a good friend to the people around me despite the goings on. I think I've done pretty well so far. I still haven't managed to get my motivation up but I'm working on it.

One of the incidents which caused distress last week was a hazmat spill at home. Some dihydrogen oxide made it's way into Grim's EEE pc keyboard. We tried to dry it out but with limited success. I did manage to get the machine up and running again but the keyboard was (intermittently) sending repeated escape key presses which makes doing anything difficult! After some more airing shaking and cleaning I get the keyboard to stop escaping for a few hours. So it was all good for a while...

Until the filesystem started returning 'no space left on device' anytime I tried to write to the root partition. I thought I had done major damage to the SSD rendering it read only because df reported at least a gig of free space. I ended up looking on the EEEuser forums which had a thread saying that there is something in the EEE's Xandros build that creates thousands of temporary files which eats into the root partitions inode allocation. Sure enough a `df -i` reported no free inodes. I felt a bit dumb for forgetting about the inode table's space restrictions. Simply `find`ing '*.wh' in / and deleting them freed up plenty of room. So once that was fixed the machine would work again! ...until the keyboard flaked out again.

I ended up swapping the keyboard in Grim's EEE with the one from mine so that Grim has something to use at home. Now I just need to fix mine or grab a new black eee 701 keyboard off ebay once I have some disposable income (hopefully on Thursday). I briefly considered getting a contrasting white keyboard but decided that was a dumb idea.

Did I mention how awesome grimreaperess is?

Over SMS regarding cleaning for the house inspection:

< Grimreaperess> I fucking hate the stove.
< Adamthebastard> I'll do the stove. It requires brute force and ignorance, two things I excel at.
[30mins later]
< Grimreaperess> I beat the top bit but I'm low on lives so I'm going to leave the rest for you.
< Adamthebastard> :D

I suck at finishing things. I can't even finish this damn post. I keep chickening out. okay I'm getting there now.

I am currently researching some motivational stuff on the net. Damn, I said "motivational", that word has connotations that make me uncomfortable. I think that is part of the problem.

Currently there is a postit stuck to my main monitor at work which reads:

Buy tools for keeping track of ideas, projects and life. Learn to love your Book 'o' Scraps.

Note: that last part is a dig at Grim. RHDG told her to keep a visual diary scrap book to help her get in to the ANU School of Arts. She bought glue on the weekend so she could paste in scraps of things she finds. I should stop being an ass about it though because I'm really excited for her. Besides, now she'll have ammunition against me and it'd be hypocritical... (it wasn't before by the way. Shuddup.)

Also note: This post needs photos. Yeah, I'll get a round tuit. Tomorrow.

So, suggestions?

Found a new blog when reading the Riot Act: PassiveAggressiveNotes.com

Makes me wish we still had a copy of that letter that was stuffed in the Campbell House letter box all those years ago. I wonder if it's still floating around... Maybe I should contact the Veterinarians and see if they have seen it recently.

On my work Desktop:
thomad@firefly:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
75 ls
37 xmms2
34 vi
28 cd
26 sudo
25 cat
22 git
19 rm
18 apt-cache
14 exit

On my Linux machine at home:
adam@serenity:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
108 vi
87 ls
41 ./flexget.py
36 exit
25 cd
22 screen
18 sudo
15 cat
14 rm
13 wget

I spent a lot of time recently trying to get flexget to pull down videos from the ABC vodcast XML feeds. Unfortunately it hits Python's memory limit on my machine and I haven't been bothered to write a wget wrapper, so that's why there are that many manual calls to wget.

Oh and vi is infact vim on both systems:
adam@serenity:~$ which vi
/usr/bin/vi
adam@serenity:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-01-04 20:32 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi
adam@serenity:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-01-04 20:43 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.basic

Could I be bothered working on my path-finding/routing code to support the GoogleTransitFeed Spec? Given that there are a few transit authorities who provide free (for some values of free) access to their feeds, I can probably use that data to test. Should I just (GPL) release what I have (which can route for my _very_ limited [hard coded] test cases) and let everyone else work on it? Does any one want a Free Software time/schedule aware path finding Perl script? There are already lots of people way smarter than me working on this kind of software but none (that I can see) are freely releasing the code.

Edit: I might just post it to the OpenStreetMap's Train Routing page.

I've spent a large part of today trying to work out how to got my phone to connect to my EEE pc (running the default xandros Linux with the Debian Etch bluez-utils package) over the usb bluetooth dongle.

Every time I tried to access the rfcomm0 device it would prompt for the PIN on the phone, sit for a few seconds then throw the error:

Can't connect RFCOMM socket: Operation now in progress.

I finally realised hcid wasn't running, then I realised that it'd spew debug info if I ran it with -n. Turns out dbus wasn't running so hcid would crap out:

/etc/init.d/dbus start
/etc/init.d/bluetooth start


Gets things running and binds /dev/rfcomm0 to my phone's DUN channel (as configured in /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf) then all I need to do to get it to connect is open the device for reading with `cat` or anything else really.

The next step is to got DUN working via the EEE's network config app.

Grim cooked a fantastic chili chicken and pumpkin pasta. She wins and she is mine! mwhahahahah.

Oh okay, I spose I can share.

Yay! Anything encrypted with an ssl key generated by Debian's openssl package versions 0.9.8c-1 to 0.9.8g-8 is now considered compromised.

I hope no one has a dump of any of my sessions to SSH or HTTPS servers with compromised keys. :(

awesome, so very awesome.

This morning's realisation that everyday can't be as good as the last four turned out to be really depressing. I think I've crashed pretty hard. I'm losing interest in going to see Pendulum in Sydney, it wasn't set in stone, but yesterday I really wanted to go, now I'm not convinced. I am looking forward to heading home to stories and then out again for SES training. Everything else feels like a chore. Especially documenting a set of scripts I wrote more'n a year ago that haven't been re-installed after an upgrade on the piece of software they provide information to.

If we don't make it to Pendulum we have some ideas of what we want to do on the two days I'll be off work so that should be good.

| 868077 | 2007-06-25 | 147 | 90 | 5 | 2007 | 10 | 2007-01-01 | 2007-07-22 | 147 | [MUNGED USERNAME] | 90 | 93169 | 5 | 5 | 2007 | 10 | 2007-01-01 | 2007-07-22 |
+--------+-------------+---------+-----------+----+------+-----+------------+------------+-------+--------------------------+-------+-------+---------+----+------+-----+------------+------------+
868458 rows in set (4 min 0.73 sec)
mysql>
</pre>
</quote>
Probably not a good starting point for generating reports for an interactive web interface. I might make it a view and mess around making some scheduled reports from it.

EDIT:
LOL! I suck!
When I take out the 'order by' and stick it in a view. It comes back much faster.

| 2007-06-25  | 2007 |  10 | [MUNGED USERNAME]        | 94230 |         2007 |          10 | 
+-------------+------+-----+--------------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
868458 rows in set (10.32 sec)

Of course printing all those rows to the the xterm isn't exactly fast.

Now look what you've done. I couldn't sleep last night because I was thinking about the trust problem that a decentralised journaling system would create. I think I resolved it in my head mostly but now I want to write about it. I'm too old for this.

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This might get cross posted to elsejournal, if I could be bothered getting involved with strangers.

Social

Went to folkie yesterday instead of 4 wheel driving with SES mates. I called one of the guys last night to find that it had been canceled. Had lots of fun with C+C & Grim. Others provided additional social interaction which was well nice. There was all kinds of confusion due to some confused persons. After seeing The Crooked Fiddle Band I've decided more bands need to use classical string instruments to make metal.

Work

I need to move myself up in the world. Sitting at the top of a ITO2 is nice and all but I can be more. I lack drive, or something. TODO: fixme.

In other news...

I think Girls I'm attracted to are unattainable.
or
I'm attracted to Girls I think are unattainable.

I can't decide which one it is but either way I'm screwing myself.

I guess I can stop working on my A* route planner for the ACTION bus network now that Google Transit is being deployed in Aus.

Oh well. I'll just go back to writing a slot car lap timer for Linux.