http://schinckel.net Like a fortune cookie, only without the fortune, and not a cookie. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:14:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a post taken out of context I made to a discussion group in my AI subject. (Which another Matt and I have decided they falsely advertised, and should have called "Expert Systems"). It's a bit vague in a couple of places, and I will probably come back to ... http://schinckel.net/2008/07/31/on-strong-ai-and-the-chinese-room/ It's still relatively unusual for me to have to work on a system that I don't have superuser status on - at home I am the administrator of all of the machines, and at work I have sudo privs on both the development and production servers. At Uni, however, I have ... http://schinckel.net/2008/07/31/fighting-with-ssh/ I have been searching for cheaper ways to buy textbooks (it's crazy to pay $120 for a text, IMHO). I've chanced across www.textbookexchange.com.au. Let's examine the workflow when trying to find a book there. Visit the site. Type in the name of the book or author. Press ... http://schinckel.net/2008/07/30/why-do-that-really/ As a class, we have the choice of what the focus of one of my topics this semester is going to be. I'm voting for Compiler Construction. Even though we'll be doing it in Java (ugh!), it is something I was disappointed to find wasn't otherwise offered. If you need convincing, read ... http://schinckel.net/2008/07/29/compiler-construction-or-game-development/ First KP in ages today. Tue Jul 29 13:50:14 2008 panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00192FD4): "pmap_flush_tlbs() timeout: " "cpu 1 failing to respond to interrupts, pmap=0x6b58ae0 cpus_to_signal=2"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.5.20/osfmk/i386/pmap.c:4570 Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 0x628bfa18 : 0x12b0fa (0x4592a4 0x628bfa4c 0x133243 0x0) 0x628bfa68 : 0x192fd4 (0x45f414 0x1 0x6b58ae0 0x2) 0x628bfad8 ... http://schinckel.net/2008/07/29/configd-kernel-panic/ How do you pronounce XIB? I'd say it as ZIB. You know, like xylophone? http://schinckel.net/2008/07/29/from-the-xcode-users-list/ As the man says... http://schinckel.net/2008/07/24/testing-modified-ecto-twitter-addon/ Can you tell I'm procrastinating? I've spent the last little while using Acorn to create a new Avatar. Here are some ideas. http://schinckel.net/2008/07/21/creating-a-new-avatar/ Back sometime before the year 2000, I happened across a book called "Turn of the Century", but Kurt Andersen. I remember absolutely loving it, but the coolest thing was that one of my longest friends, who had not too long previously moved interstate, had started reading it at exactly the ... http://schinckel.net/2008/07/21/turn-of-the-century-again/ It annoys me that when I click off the Twitterrific window, it doesn't auto-hide. There doesn't seem to be a setting to make this happen. Luckily, you can fix this with a quick edit to the MainMenu.nib file. (This requires you have InterfaceBuilder, and therefore the developer tools installed.) View the contents of ... http://schinckel.net/2008/07/20/1-fix-for-twitterific/