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Java, feh
12:27pm, Monday 6 September 2004

So if your Mozilla crashes whenever you open a page with an embedded Java applet, try upgrading the libgcc1 package which contains one of the support libraries. Nicely documented - not!

Java - write once, debug everywhere...

Maybe. Maybe not.
3:45pm, Friday 25 June 2004

Someone at work was bemoaning the lack of /bin/maybe. So I wrote it. GPL (though I don't believe this is the first implementation ever!)

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main() {
        srand(getpid());
        if(rand()<(RAND_MAX/2))
                return 0;
        else
                return 1;
}

Mandelbrot
11:58am, Monday 22 March 2004

I found a web page describing how someone did ray-tracing on his 1980's pocket calculator. I have a calculator just like that, so I taught it to calculate a Mandelbrot set.
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The morality of open source software
10:15am, Wednesday 17 March 2004

Internet Week asks whether free software is morally correct. Best line: "SCO has argued that open-source supporters are hell-bent on putting for-profit companies out of business."

When code re-use is bad
5:25pm, Thursday 12 February 2004

I recently got hold of a copy of "Maze" by Christopher Manson and I wanted to solve the maze. [more...]