The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers

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Weird - enabling extended attributes under Linux is now a mount option:

# mount -o remount,user_xattr /

Also, according to google the acl mount option needs to be specified to enable POSIX ACLs. posted at: 22:58 | path: | permanent link to this entry

Sat, 14 Aug 2004

Linux hotplug tips

WLUG-Wiki Hot Plug Notes

posted at: 00:00 | path: /computers | permanent link to this entry

Thu, 12 Aug 2004

Online Talks

Mark-Jason Dominus has a few of his talks on line. My favourite is Presentation Judo (which does bear an uncanny resemblance to Damian Conway's Presentation Aikido he gave at OSCON this year).

My favourite quote:

If you are making the point that C++ is nasty, and you want people to be disgusted by it, one of the most effective things you can do is to put some turds on the page. People will feel real disgust, not in the front part of their brains, but way at the back, in the microcode. (I don't need to list all the ways this plan could backfire, do I?)

I'm not sure whether the pattern of making your talks very entertaining is an entirely good idea. It works in the sense that I still remember more about the entertaining talks than the boring as batshit ones, but perhaps some people might think it doesn't have as much educational value (whatever that means) if the presenter is jumping about like a leprechaun.

My other thought is that the Python community needs a couple of exciting, passionate and entertaining speakers on the conference circuit. As a sweeping generalisation, the Python speakers at OSCON were all thoughtful but reserved, and the Perl speakers were passionate and animated. Perhaps it says something about the two languages.

posted at: 09:30 | path: | permanent link to this entry

Wed, 11 Aug 2004

Startup sounds

What's the story with startup sounds? Do the owners of laptops with startup sounds enabled think that it's cool to have a computer? So cool that you have to tell everyone in the room that "hey look, I have a computer and hey, I've just turned it on!". At an IT conference pretty much everyone has a computer so it's not really that cool. posted at: 00:00 | path: /conferences | permanent link to this entry

Tue, 10 Aug 2004

At OSCON

I can't believe the number of people with Mac laptops at OSCON. It really is quite scary. Most of them are even running OS X. posted at: 00:00 | path: /conferences | permanent link to this entry

Mon, 09 Aug 2004

Cool emacs Hack

(defun indent-or-complete ()
  "Complete if point is at end of a word, otherwise indent line."
  (interactive)
  (if (looking-at "\\>")
      (dabbrev-expand nil)
    (indent-for-tab-command)
    ))
 
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
          (function (lambda ()
                      (local-set-key (kbd "") 'indent-or-complete)
                      )))

I think I'll try it out for a week or so and see how funky it is. posted at: 12:33 | path: /software/emacs | permanent link to this entry

Thu, 05 Aug 2004

LDAP Attribute Name du Jour

mSexchange posted at: 15:39 | path: /humour | permanent link to this entry