Oooh. Microsoft’s MSDN Subscriber website has been updated, with several cool features including an RSS feed that publishes new downloads as they become available. Nice. Firefox users need to download and install the Microsoft File Transfer Manager separately. I’m feeling pretty pissed off because I haven’t been able to get MSDN to move my US subscription [...]
Archive for August, 2005
Name search in the news…
26Aug05CNET has an article on name search. They mention Arabic, Thai, and transliterated Arabic name search — all problems we worked on at IIT (myself, MSL, and DH and me, respectively). Just makes me that much more impatient for my paper to get printed… Interestingly, the LAS guy gets his only Soundex example wrong: The limitations are [...]
Just a quick note — I’ve been working on a parallelized Windows build system, which farms the build out to one of several build servers. The actual compilation of code is done by MSVC6 right now (there’s been talk of moving to VS .NET 2003, but with 2005 coming out, there’s been less impetus to make [...]
Pentium M RAID news
25Aug05Woohoo! My comment got mod’d to 5: Intel and laptop RAID (First time I bothered to post, let me enjoy it…)
Wow, this is priceless. I wrote the following in a previous post: ` File \”Z:\\Work\\trunk: ` The backticks are Markdown/Smartypants syntax for monospace font (such as that used to display code, eg. this is monospace). Anyway, apparently Typo/Rails didn’t like it, and gave me an ‘Application Error’, without explaining what the problem was. When I went digging through [...]
Django (part 2)
17Aug05Things are looking up so far, but minor points: 1) That after setting the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable, I still have to be in myproject/apps before I run django_admin.py startapp myapp. Why? That setting plus the Django install root should be enough to figure out where the myapp folder should be created. 2) It seems the django_admin.py install [...]
Django time!
17Aug05I’m about to get started on my project with RI. I’ve picked up Python’s new Django framework and have been going through the tutorials the last few days. It looks pretty nice (though I disagree with some architectural agrements, particularly the whole MVC/MTV aspect of things), and I’m hopeful I’ll be able to get the [...]
Long-view
16Aug05So the British media are gleefully chanting Long-view’s name, telling us their album’s the best thing since U2’s ‘Joshua Tree’. Yeah, riiight… I’ve only bothered to listen to a couple of their songs, but in my opinion they’re decidedly derivative. Take their song, ‘When you sleep’, for example. The name recalls a Corrs song, while the [...]
Bench Press
16Aug05Bench press (in power rack): - 20 x 10 - 22.5 x 10 - 23.75 x 4 - 23.75 x 4 Cable pulls: - 20 x 10 - 20 x 10 - 20 x 10 Notes: 23.75kg on each side of a 20kg bar! Woohoo! To think I’ve only managed 17 before and that the jump to 20 was supposed to be aggressive! I’m not ramping [...]
Schweeeet!
15Aug05I have a blog! Not earth-shattering news perhaps, but given that it involved: – thinking about doing it on-and-off for about 2 years – agonizing over which package to use (I still say Wordpress sucks) – switching web hosts 3 times (from Khurrum’s homegrown to GoDaddy and now to DreamHost) Yes, given all that, I think you’ll [...]
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