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Saw that one comingPosted by Synfinatic on January 27, 2007 at 11:09 am in /dev/random, Rant.So I’m in the market for a small camcorder. After doing some research, I settled on a model (Samsung X210L) and started looking for the best price. Most online retailers I was familiar with were in the $400-$500 range, but one store (GearXSmall.us.com) was $340! Once I noticed the store was based in NY, I started wondering what the catch was.
Well that was just a little harder…Posted by Synfinatic on January 23, 2007 at 9:24 pm in /dev/random, Code.Upgraded to Wordpress 2.1. Was mostly a smooth upgrade, but of course not everything was plug & play. Apparently there were some slight API changes which broke the right sidebar, but after reading the developer docs things fell into place.
IA64 binaries now availablePosted by Synfinatic on January 20, 2007 at 10:41 am in tcpreplay.Thanks to Hewlett-Packard’s Linux Expertise Center, I’ve been able to make IA-64 binaries available for tcpreplay 2.3.5. Please note that these binaries were provided by HP and neither I nor any of the tcpreplay contributors support them. Furthermore, I seriously doubt that HP supports them either, but then again I didn’t ask.
Multithreaded server in 5 lines? Damn.Posted by Synfinatic on January 14, 2007 at 10:31 pm in Code, Cool.Ok, last post was a rant was about how Ruby sucks. This post is about how damned cool it is. Long story short, I needed to switch some code from a fork() model to multithreaded or select(). I really wasn’t excited about working with threads or Ruby’s rather coarse select() API. Then I found GServer.
No destructor? WTF?Posted by Synfinatic on January 13, 2007 at 1:16 pm in Code, Rant.Ok, I’ll the be first to admit that I’m no OO guru. Most of my OO coding has been done in Perl for heaven’s sake. I’ve also dabbled a little in C++. Now I’m learning Ruby. Ruby has some really cool idioms and features which really make writing code easier and cleaner. Of course, not everything in Ruby has me singing it’s praises. This is another of those rants…
41 downloads/day?Posted by Synfinatic on January 9, 2007 at 10:56 am in tcpreplay.I was just browsing SourceForge and noticed that they seem to have (finally) fixed the project stats. Anyways, I decided to check out the tcpreplay stats for the last two months. Did the math and people are downloading tcpreplay 40.9 times on average per day. Wow. Honestly, I didn’t think there were close to that many people downloading the source code… after all most people can get tcpreplay from BSD ports, RPM or the like. Anyways, short status update. I had hoped to work on tcpreplay over the holidays last month, but was too burnt out to do any coding. Hopefully I’ll be able to find some time soon to continue the …
linkyPosted by Synfinatic on January 1, 2007 at 8:32 pm in Politics.Three things I’ve read recently that you should too: The 10 most outrageous civil liberty violations of 2006 Trey & Matt interviewed by Reason magazine TSA “security” measures are internally inconsistent
Truth vs. RealityPosted by Synfinatic on at 8:14 pm in Photography.I just got done reading Alain Briot’s article titled Just Say Yes. If you shoot digital photography, I highly recommend you read it…
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