Monthly Archives: October 2004

Don’t they pay attention…

So despite changing to using a filtering system on comments to remove those that advertise paying poker online, they continue to send these annoying comments. Don’t they have any form of checking to see if they’re wasting their time? I … Continue reading

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Venus & Jupiter

Coming back from Montreal Venus & then Jupiter came above the horizon just before the sun poked it’s head up, and the view was quite incredible. Only had my little Sony P-9, but set on it’s night scene mode it … Continue reading

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Eclipse

Well, last nights lunar eclipse was a truly impressive sight as it started just as we left Chicago and went on for what seemed liked ages. I was able to watch almost the entire eclipse which was very cool. The … Continue reading

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802.11 & FreeBSD

I’ve been looking for a way to debug a wireless card driver for a little while now. The search has pushed me into buying a PCI 802.11 card from eBay and moving hard drives around so that an old machine … Continue reading

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Lunar images

Having always been interested in the stars, I decided a short while ago to buy a telescope. The scope is a Meade ETX-90EC and it came with their LPI CCD device. This is basically a small CCD that you can … Continue reading

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Duh!

Sometimes things are so simple, so obvious that you really do feel like Homer when they hit you. standing cleaning my teeth (as you do) it suddenly hit me that the solution for removing a lot of mess from the … Continue reading

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rpath

I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with rpath for a while now. It’s really required for builds that use shared libraries that aren’t yet installed and yet it’s not easy to add using a sensible syntax. I’ve … Continue reading

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Upgraded

Well, finally managed to figure out how to delete cookies (quite easy once I navigated to the right place!) the upgrade of WordPress is done and I can post again! Sorry…

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Syntax

With the parser changes now working and stable, work has been progressing to get the changes backported into the butter code. I’ve also realised that I really needed an additional object that can be used to store deails of the … Continue reading

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Finally…

Using bison & flex really do make life easy, but only once you’ve spent time pulling out your hair to try and figure out the syntax you need! In an attempt to make the parsing easier and make things more … Continue reading

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