# I've just seen an advert for a hair colouring which Andie MacDowell assures me even works on those little curly ones.
Does that mean you can use it on your crotch?
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#[linkfarm] The "Wow" Starts Now
Miserable looking execs from Dell, Intel, Microsoft, et al during the Vista launch. Look at the chap second from the right, he really doesn't look convinced. *
Ken [e] said They should show the Cheshire Cat line-up of ram, video-card and hard disc manufacturers...
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#[linkfarm] The Chosen Games: 2006 - The Central Committee's Choice from Manifesto Games
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#[linkfarm] Unhappy Meals - Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning of a long essay, and I confess that I’m tempted to complicate matters in the interest of keeping things going for a few thousand more words. ...
... So try this: Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. (Sorry, but at this point Moms are as confused as the rest of us, which is why we have to go back a couple of generations, to a time before the advent of modern food products.) There are a great many foodlike items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food (Go-Gurt? Breakfast-cereal bars? Nondairy creamer?); stay away from these.
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#[linkfarm] A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope
Was R2-D2 running the Rebel Alliance?
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#[Arabica]Arabica Builds
In the last couple of days I have built Arabica on the following platforms. In each case, I used
Expat 2.0.0 and
Boost 1.33.1.
- OpenBSD 3.9, i386-unknown-openbsd3.9, using GCC 3.3.5
- FreeBSD 6.1, i386-unknown-freebsd6.1, using GCC 3.4.4
- DragonflyBSD 1.6.0, i386-unknown-dragonfly1.6.0, using GCC 3.4.5
- Nexenta GNU/Solaris, i386-pc-solaris2.11, using GCC 4.0.3
- Cygwin on XP Professional, i686-pc-cygwin, using GCC 4.1.0
- Mingw MSys on XP Professional, i686-pc-mingw32, using GCC 3.4.2 (mingw-special)
- Ubuntu Linux 6.1.0, i686-pc-linux-gnu, using GCC 4.0.3
- Windows XP Professional, using Visual Studio 7.1
Reports on other platforms welcome.
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#[Arabica]Arabica January 2007 Release
Happy New Year
Here's Arabica first release of 2007. It contains a number of incremental improvements, but nothing you might describe as startling
- Build
- Further improvements to the configure system. The build can now be configured without the Boost libraries in which case the XPath components are skipped. Parser detection is improved, as is detecting the correct libraries for sockets.
- Added a Visual Studio solution file to build with Boost.
- Code
- Added TreeWalker and NodeFilter implementation, part of DOM Traversal. Thanks to craigp for that.
- Beefed up the MSXML version checking. Thanks to Sten Darre for that.
- Reworked the buffering in convertstream to reduce the number of dynamic allocations. This should make it quicker, and that will be particular noticeable on large documents. Thanks to Timo Guesch for profiling and suggesting the change.
- LexicalHandler and DeclHandler are now part of the XMLReader interface. They can now be set directly, rather than fiddling around with setProperty and the strange casting that involved. XMLFilterImpl has been extended to support them, as has the DefaultHandler. DefaultHandler2 is now redundant and has been deprecated.
Build reports are very welcome, particularly from non-i386 platforms and/or non-GCC compilers.
Source tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabica/arabica-Jan2007.tar.bz2
Source tar.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabica/arabica-Jan2007.tar.gz
Source zip
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabica/arabica-Jan2007.zip
See you next time with some XSLT.
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#[linkfarm] Mr and Mrs Natural
At home with the Crumbs *
Ken [e] said Nice to see that the Crumbverse is, shall we say, so Bohemian. The extended family network requires a routemap I think. Only in France...
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#[linkfarm] See You Under The Rotunda? - Danny Bernardi is the author of Under the Rotunda a novel set in Brum. Here he describes the trials and tribulations of trying to persuade his editor that Birmingham would prove a good backdrop for the book.
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#[linkfarm] Couple found dead with their pets after relatives - Better known as Harry Horse, Richard Horne and his wife, Mandy, had a relationship that was, according to everyone who knew them, simply extraordinary.
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#[linkfarm] Deep and dreamless sleep - A Doctor Who story for Christmas by Paul Cornell
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#[linkfarm] Panda Sneeze *
Ken [e] said I'd like to know how you stumble across this stuff...(pictures Jez sitting, bored, chewing fingernails...what to do? What to do? I know! Search "sneeze + panda", go! Right, let's see...)
[added 19th Jan 2007]
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wunderwoman said Aaaahhhh bless!
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#[linkfarm] Wave Bubble - a self-tuning, wide-bandwidth portable RF jammer
Didn't you want something like this, Pete? *
Pete Ashton said Yes!
It'd be nice if these were implemented by cinemas and train companies. Unlikely, but nice. [added 18th Jan 2007]
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#[linkfarm] Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results - In January 2006 the European Commission published the Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets of Europe. The Study resulted from a detailed analysis of the current scholarly journal publication market, together with extensive consultation with all the major stakeholders within the scholarly communication process (researchers, funders, publishers, librarians, research policymakers, etc.). The Study noted that 'dissemination and access to research results is a pillar in the development of the European Research Area' and it made a number of balanced and reasonable recommendations to improve the visibility and usefulness of European research outputs.
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# On a whim, grabbed the emacs prerelease source. For those keeping score that's version 22.0.92.1. Built without a hitch on Windows using VC++2003, and runs up fine.
Immediately obvious plusses
- VC-mode now supports Subversion
- Looks a bit prettier
- Starts a bit quicker, maybe, once you've byte-compiled everything
- Cleartype fonts work. One for you there, Mr Singleton.
- None of my customisations (not that I have many) have broken (as far as I can see so far)
Immediately obvious minusses
- Toolbar is ugly
- Probably be ages before the release is actually baked
- Applies XML mode to files beginning with the XML declaration, hijacking anything you might have set based on file extension. This probably isn't what you want, because chances are it's booting nXML. Add this to your .emacs to turn this off
;; reset checking for XML declaration so that nxml and xsl
;; modes aren't hijacked by xml mode
(setq magic-mode-alist (cons '("<\\?xml " . nil) magic-mode-alist))
Not so magic after all, perhaps. Hey, look at me. I wrote some elisp.
- Python mode starts eating all your CPU. Happily a small patch fixes it
smellygit said Can I bear to go through the pain of going back to the one true emacs though?
[added 17th Jan 2007] What are you using at the moment? If you like I'll do a you a massive zipfile of my install tree, so you can have a go. [added 17th Jan 2007]
smellygit said XEmacs so it's no so different, though don't tell Stallman I said that!
[added 17th Jan 2007] Too late. You have branded yourself the enemy! [added 17th Jan 2007]
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#[linkfarm] The Twilight Years of Cap'n Crunch - Silicon Valley legend John Draper made his name with brains and pranks, before slipping to the margins
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#[linkfarm] Swamp Thing Shit - My misguided affection for these pencil sharpeners, though, lies in the fact that you're using a tiny Swamp Thing idol to further carve/maim a wood product already mechanically sculpted from ravaged trees -- a pencil, natch -- thus using a replica of DC's protector of the trees, the Plant Elemental incarnate, to, like, sharpen pencils. Among tree-huggers, this isn't only misapplication of a false idol, it's ideologically abhorrent in the extreme on so many levels, one can't comprehend them all. And that, I love.
Steve Bissette considers some of the more outrageous Swamp Thing merchandise
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#[linkfarm] US wants all your fingerprints - Brits planning a trip to the US will now have to surrender all 10 of their digits to the authorities for fingerprinting. The prints will then be added to the same FBI database which stores the prints of convicted criminals.
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#[linkfarm] OSCON Call for Participation - We want to hear about your winning techniques, favorite life-savers, and the system you've made that everyone will be using next year. Going to pitch for some more conferences this year, but suspect I might be too pedestrian and programmery for OSCON.On the other hand some of last years programming track items hardly seem groundbreaking. On the other other hand, working at Google lends a certain cache, and I suspect few people other than Perl god Damien Conway could pitch a session on using the vim editor. [added 15th Jan 2007]
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#[linkfarm] High Simplicity - What is simple code?
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#[linkfarm] RAW Essence - Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11. All hail Eris!
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#[linkfarm] D'Israeli's Haircut - While I was not tempted to stray from the paths of heterosexuality, the encounter didn't half cheer me up Slightly psychotic looking (but jolly good with a pencil) comics artist has a haircut. Hilarity ensues.
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#[linkfarm] UK plots first Moonshot - Britain's first Moon mission is being considered for funding by the government's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Just a tiny bit rude about Colin, I thought *
Ken [e] said Oh great. Only around fifty years later than we should've done it...better late than never I suppose. BTW I've set aside some homebrew cider for Colin.
[added 10th Jan 2007]
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#[linkfarm] CVS Branch and Tag Primer Repeat after me - "a branch is not a tag, a branch is not a tag ..."
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#[linkfarm] Otocinclus batmani - New fish is named after Batman
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#accu2007: Schedule published, booking now
Bookings are now open for accu2007, the 10th anniversary ACCU
Conference. We have a whole bunch of great stuff lined up this year,
from keynotes featuring Mary Poppendieck, Mark Shuttleworth and our
own Pete Goodliffe, through another diverse and highly engaging
programme featuring tracks on development for mobile devices, dynamic
languages, Java, C#/.NET, and two days discussion of the Future of C++
from the world experts gathering for the ACCU-hosted ISO standards
meeting taking place the following week. We end the event with a rare
appearance from Dan Saks, one of the speakers at the first conference
in 1997.
- Full schedule.
- Prices and booking. Early booking rate for members is £425, which for a four day conference is barkingly good value. Non-member rate is £525, still not to be sniffed at, but why not join then book?
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#[linkfarm] Shelves in Subversion - Shelve your pending changes when you are not ready to or cannot check in a set of pending changes.
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#[linkfarm] Menage a Un - Richard Herring's Menage a Un at the Mac, April 14 Saw him do what would become Someone Likes Yogurt, his previous show, on April 14 2005. Wonder if he's booked April 14 2009 yet?
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#[linkfarm] Cascade deletions with XSLT Can use this is a test case when I implement xsl:key and key() in arabica
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#[linkfarm] The Bride of Pressbutton - a four page The Stars My Degradation strip by Curt Vile
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#[Arabica]XSLT: extension functions
Started work implementing the handful of functions XSLT adds to XPath. Some of them are easy-peasy
The current function returns a node-set that has the current node as its only member.
while others are
not quite so ...
The format-number function converts its first argument to a string using the format pattern string specified by the second argument and the decimal-format named by the third argument, or the default decimal-format, if there is no third argument. The format pattern string is in the syntax specified by the JDK 1.1 DecimalFormat class. The format pattern string is in a localized notation: the decimal-format determines what characters have a special meaning in the pattern (with the exception of the quote character, which is not localized). The format pattern must not contain the currency sign (#x00A4); support for this feature was added after the initial release of JDK 1.1. The decimal-format name must be a QName, which is expanded as described in [2.4 Qualified Names]. It is an error if the stylesheet does not contain a declaration of the decimal-format with the specified expanded-name.
That's clear then. So make it work just like the first version of JDK 1.1. Righto.
NOTE:Implementations are not required to use the JDK 1.1 implementation, nor are implementations required to be implemented in Java.
Well, thanks for that.
richardav said I am having issue with my Netgear 834G , I resetted the router to the manufactory set but I cannot login . username: admin and password: password is rejected.
Please can you help [added 11th Jan 2007]
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#[linkfarm] The Secret Life Of Machines Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod's fantastic series on how stuff works. Some of it might be hitting 20 years old, but it's still elegant, informative, and amusing television. You may remember Tim Hunkin's Rudiments of Wisdom cartoon encyclopaedia which ran in The Observer magazine throughout most of the 70s and 80s, and which were collected (with 10% extra!) in the marvellous book Almost Everything There Is To Know.
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#[linkfarm] Stars must 'check science facts' - Celebrities have been asked to check their facts before lending support to scientific research and campaigns, rather than risk misleading people. A mere 10 years after vertical tube farms. heavy electricity, and crabs incubating human foetuses. The news outlets are missing a trick by not interviewing Chris Morris or Peter Baynham about this.
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#[linkfarm] Dwarfstar Boardgames for download Not familiar with these, but some look pretty interesting. *
Ken [e] said Weren't these around in the Eighties, about the time the Traveller RPG was popular? I seem to remember ads for them in mags like White Dwarf. It's amazing how things keep cropping up on the web - a bit like all the old ZX Spectrum games that can be downloaded and run in under 16k!! And for free! Just had to wait 25 years...
[added 4th Jan 2007]
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#[linkfarm] Sky is intending to add video-on-demand capabilities to its Sky boxes - ... allowing subscribers to pay more to record shows they failed to record first time round ...
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#[Arabica]XSLT: Template priority
Latest commits sort xsl:templates by priority, which is jolly super really. One last little bit to do on that
It is an error if this leaves more than one matching template rule. An XSLT processor may signal the error; if it does not signal the error, it must recover by choosing, from amongst the matching template rules that are left, the one that occurs last in the stylesheet.
Not quite sure which tack to take yet. Signalling an error would be easier, but slower at stylesheet runtime. Doing the one that occurs last will be slightly more work, but more useful and slightly quicker when running the stylesheet. I'll see how the mood takes me, but Saxon, MS-XSLT and Xalan all recover. Saxon issues are warning too, so it's taking the runtime hit too.
I was wrong about how much extra work it would be to resolve a conflict in favour if the later template. It took exactly one line :) [added 3rd Jan 2007]
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#[linkfarm] Can This Fruit Be Saved? - The banana as we know it is on a crash course toward extinction. For scientists, the battle to resuscitate the world’s favorite fruit has begun—a race against time that just may be too late to win
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#Things only children know - an occasional series
A leaf from a Savoy cabbage makes an attractive hat.
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# Happy New Year chums.
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