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posted from my n810 tethered to my G1. It’s slow, but rocks!
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Closest Book Meme
Okay, the meme has finally reached Planet Gentoo, so here’s my entry.
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Now, there’s some question as to what constitutes a “book”. Do the ebooks on my n810 in my pocket count? If so, what’s a “page”? And which one is “closest”? How about the ISO spec sitting next to me? Does that count? I’m going to go with “no” for all of those, and go for the closest bound, published book. Since I’m at work, this is a technical book.
(Note: this is page 57, as 56 is blank)
The address conversion functions convert between a text representation of an address and the binary value that goes into a socket address structure.
This is from “UNIX Network Programming” by Stevens.
Bravo, Nokia!
My Nokia n810 had been having screen issues for a couple of months now. Specifically, the touchscreen had been flakey. Usually, this means that taps went to places other than where I tapped, and I had to constantly re-calibrate the touchscreen. Quite annoying, to say the least. However, occasionally, and increasingly frequently, the touchscreen had just stopped accepting taps. Some combination of opening and closing the screen, pressing on spots, and sometimes even powering off and on would eventually fix it.
Notice all the past tense there. Since my n810 was bought end of November in 2007, it’s still in it’s 1-year warranty. Since the end of that warranty was approaching fast, I decided to bite the bullet, and RMA it. In about a week, I have a nice, fixed n810. No hassle, no fuss. Thanks, Nokia!
Android not open?
I just read the license agreement for the Android SDK 1.0 release 1. It’s definitely not open, by any definition of open I can come up with.
1. I can only use it to develop for Android. At the moment, I don’t have an Android device, and therefore couldn’t care less about Android. I do have an n810, and would love to play with it there.
2. I ” may not copy (except for backup purposes), modify, adapt, redistribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works of the SDK or any part of the SDK”. This means no porting Android to another device, or modifying it in any way.
3. I “may not load any part of the SDK onto a mobile handset or any other hardware device except a personal computer”. This is the oddest restriction of all. I can’t use it to develop software for an android phone? At any rate, no porting for me.
Okay, none of this applies to open source licensed components. Lets see what I can actually use:
1. The kernel (woo hoo! I can get the kernel elsewhere)
2. webkit. I have this on my laptop already.
3. An android emulator. That’s something, I guess.
4. An eclipse plugin. I don’t use eclipse.
Until enough of Android is release open source to be useful, you can hardly claim that Android is “open”. I’m still holding out hope. I honestly hope that Android is released. But until it is, I can’t in good conscience get an Android phone.
What I would really like to see is a port of Android (or at least it’s UI) to the Nokia internet tablets. Too bad that’s not possible.
Epic Fail, again
D&D 4 is coming out, and it’s supposed to be a huge change from previous versions. I love D&D, so I’m curious.
The Penny Arcade guys teamed up with the PvP guy to play the new version and chronical the game in comics and a podcast. I love Penny Arcade, so this interests me.
So, I go to the site (hosted at Wizard’s of the Coast). Guess what? You need an account to view the set. Fail. I have to sign up and give personal information (at least a working email address, and I don’t know what else, more later) to view what amounts to advertising for D&D 4?
Okay, so I finally decide to bite the bullet and fork over an address to get an account. What am I greated with?
Epic Fail. Guess I don’t get to see them afterall, and I’m slightly less likely to care about D&D 4.
Full, Redux
Well, I bought a new HD for my laptop yesterday. 250G. I’d forgotten how long it takes to stream 110G of data across a network. 
The surprising thing is how much faster everything is. I guess it was fragmented into oblivion (hardly surprising, since it was full…) Booting is about 1/3 the time.
Now, back to kvm/uml…
Full again
<sigh> My disk is full *again*. It seems like every time I turn around, I’m out of space. Who’d have thought, just a year ago, that 120G wouldn’t be close to enough?
I’d like to get a bigger hard drive, but it’s a laptop, so thats slightly complicated. Maybe I can get an external firewire drive.
Time to go scan my drive again to figure out what I can delete…
Happy Birthday, Morgan
Morgan turned 4 on Sunday:
github
So, I’ve decided to try github to host my scripts repo. The new URL is git://github.com/dang/scripts.git
I’ll see how I like it. If it’s not any good, I’ll switch back to my self-hosted repo. So far, it’s pretty nice.
Fortunately, due to the wonders of distributed version control, I always have several local copies of the whole repo, so I can leave any time. Lack of lock-in is a great thing.
Bye, Comcast!
We are finally offically Comcast Free(tm)! It feels so good.
Thanks to U-verse, we’ve been able to get rid of Comcast, get more content (yes, even more HD content, dispite what Comcast advertises on their own cable channels), and pay less for TV + Internet than we were paying for just TV before. And, we even get the Big Ten network, and have the NFL network back!
Comcast: you suck.
