Note to SharpDevelop developers...

2008-10-22 22:17:02

When your program crashes and burns you want me to report the problem, that's great. What isn't great is simply loading loading your bug tracker in my web browser and expecting me to do it manually. What really sucks is expecting me to sign up for yet another fucking account for the privilege of doing so.

Note to self...

2008-10-18 19:33:09

Stop kidding yourself that running a web/mail server on your desktop is a good idea.

Firefox, Tor and Network Timeouts

2008-07-03 13:56:47

Having trouble with network timeouts using Firefox to access Tor hidden services? Try using Polipo. There's a good guide to configuring it here.

You'll also probably want to disable logging. I used the following:

logFile = /dev/null
logLevel = 0x0

Logic FTW!

2008-06-22 13:17:43

The report also cites evidence that Mr. Freshwater told his students that "science is wrong because the Bible states that homosexuality is a sin and so anyone who is gay chooses to be gay and is therefore a sinner."

DOSBox and Widescreen Monitors

2008-06-16 11:57:41

I've been dicking around for far too long trying to get DOSBox to work the way I want it to with my widescreen monitor. The problem is that, when fullscreening games, the image fills the entire display so that, because the games I'm playing were clearly designed to be played on monitors with a 4:3 aspect ratio and my monitors is 16:10, everything gets stretched disproportionately horizontally. I want it to use as much of the screen as possible while still maintaining the games original aspect ratio.

The solution was to put:

fullresolution=1680x1050
output=openglnb
aspect=true
in my dosbox.conf and start games using e.g. dosbox -conf ~/dosbox.conf PLAY.BAT

NetHack

2008-06-13 13:23:30

                       ----------
                      /          \
                     /    REST    \
                    /      IN      \
                   /     PEACE      \
                  /                  \
                  |     drguildo     |
                  |      229 Au      |
                  |   killed by a    |
                  |   gecko, while   |
                  |     helpless     |
                  |                  |
                  |       2008       |
                 *|     *  *  *      | *
        _________)/\\_//(\/(/\)/\//\/|_)_______

New Bloggy Software

2008-06-12 22:10:00

Real men write their own bloggy software. Either that or pathetic losers; I forget which.

That's right, you heard me. Over the past couple of days I've been meticulously crafting the software I'm using to post this update nobody will ever read. I only added the features I use so it's really simple - only 68 lines of Python code as I write this. There's nothing wrong with shit like WordPress but who the hell uses half the features? And setting up MySQL seems like overkill when you only get 1 hit a month (I'm using SQLite). Then there's all the security holes.

In short: dongs.

True Story

2008-05-23 23:39:21

I bumped into C.A.R. Hoare in the men's toilets today. I'm not joking.

CompSci 4 life.

More Junk software: Ubuntu NetworkManager

2008-04-27 22:16:24

I installed Ubanto Linux/GNU the other day and ever since NetworkManager has been fucking with me. At first it just failed to get my PPPoE connection working, but pon ppp0 sorted that out. It was when I tried to set-up my LAN that the fun really started. After configuring the interface, NetworkManager decided it had to bring down the PPPoE connection, before churning away for quite a while and finally disabling networking completely.

I don't think I'll bother filing a bug because past experience suggests the best thing that'll happen is I'll get an email about it in 3 years time (no joke), the worst case being it'll get ignored completely (I've had this happen even when I've included fixes).

Java summed up in a single line of code

2008-03-07 06:04:18

doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File(filename));

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