4 Mar 2001 (updated 4 Mar 2001) » hackery, at last My friend Luke, is the author of luk emftp, a portable ftp client based upon the original BSD ftp client, and is now used by default in Suse, NetBSD and a few other platforms. It is easily the best CLI-based ftp client, and I’ve…
Advogato – 2 March 2001
2 Mar 2001 » deekayen: Living in the past Would the framers of the 1787 Constitution be looking back at the luminaries of the 1560’s for inspiration for their country? No. They were framing the constitution around new(ish) ideas that the eminent contemporary people (well, men) of the time liked, a sentiment that essentially can…
Advogato – 20 February 2001
20 Feb 2001 (updated 20 Feb 2001) » washing cats: like herding just more painful dirtyrat, mixing Meebles and water forms an emulsion, albeit one that fights back with very sharp claws and teeth, and he doesn’t take prisoners. But from time to time, Meebles sleeps under Ang’s (old) car, and gets oil on his…
Advogato – 19 February 2001
19 Feb 2001 » sad: kittens sad, your kitten will entertain you for months with the following behaviour: Attacking the back of your hands and ankles (this one’s a pain, suggest water pistol) Kitty litter is optional to kittens for the first few weeks (a pain; suggest being home with kitty until they are reliable)…
Advogato – 15 February 2001
15 Feb 2001 » bleep is nice, NDA’s are bad bleep is nice. Happy Shiny People obviously were distilled to make bleep. It goes to prove that if you leave bleep alone long enough, they get it right. The bleep are almost bleep in nature, without much thought of what happens to people on smaller…
Advogato – 13 February 2001
13 Feb 2001 » rule of law On CNN, I just saw an Israeli personage defending his country’s helicopter gunship murder of a high ranking Palenstinian figure. Israel for some time has basically been a terrorist rogue nation, every bit as bad as the people they are supposedly combating. It really pisses me off when…
Advogato – 12 February 2001
12 Feb 2001 (updated 12 Feb 2001) » cilux: reading diaries, licensing Yes, people read the diaries here. I don’t know about anyone else, but I prefer to do stuff than worry about licensing advocacy. Considering the content of today’s (where today is an arbitary point in time), I’d say that most of the Advogato…
Advogato – 11 February 2001
11 Feb 2001 (updated 11 Feb 2001) » hackery Can’t get near my machine at the moment; Dan is going through major geekiness phase, and it’s sort of aggravating. I need to free up my Dell for me. Programmers == HCI morons Tried to do what I thought was a very simple thing: find a…
Advogato – 4 February 2001
4 Feb 2001 » cancer of the neck, update According to the doc, it’s a sebacious cyst, one that is in a bunch of nerves that’ll need very careful surgery to remove the next time it really gets inflamed. However, since the antibiotics really didn’t make much of a dent on the sucker, I’m going…
Advogato – I’m pissed edition
3 Feb 2001 (updated 3 Feb 2001) » mp3nb tbnedede to follpow I w2iolll translate ater fuck i’mk oiusssed pleraser ajvread me lkatrer 3 Feb 2001 » so pisdsed, I’m writing this ompletely outy of my mind. Much talisker adn aberlour have been dreunk, as well as rtteee bottyles of wine. Fanstiashoigc Lidytnrennh yo Suaan…