Against entropy.
Hackmeetup last night was a new attendance record. It also featured Mark saying “I’m finished with this project!”, again. A Bluetooth scanner project, which was using Rhino to wrap Java APIs, again. There were some new faces, and lots of electronics know-how in the house. I learnt a ton from Micke, who show-cased his company’s …
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Tonight: Hardware theme night for the Hackmeetup. Do you have a microcontroller project? Or are interested in one? We’ll meet at Hypergene’s offices (Västergatan 23) at 19:00 hours, this Tuesday, August 5. See you there! I’ve brought my Arduino kit with me.
This past Tuesday, we ran another Hackmeetup. Same great location, same great time. Mark ran a talk about Typography on the Web for an audience of three. For the hardware experimentation session, Carl had left, so it was Mark, me, and David, and we all worked on the same project. Mark had brought a USB-connected …
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Hi friends, This coming Tuesday night, July 22 we’ll deal with Javascript. It’s thus a theme. And, no less than two people asked to make presentations: Morgan Roderick (from Gazebo) explains Event Delegates Mark Wubben (sIFR lead developer) will do a short version of “Bringing Typography to the Web with sIFR 3” Location: Västergatan 23, …
This is an undetailed log of goings-on and other inspiration at EuroPython 2008, which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania (the southernmost of the Baltic countries). Arriving in Vilnius, which has an airport the size of a thimble, we started into the city in a cab. Cab driver tried to upsell some prostitutes. We were more …
Best of Reboot 10, for me, was Conversation: Free Food?, which was inspired by a format from BloggerCon. 15 min TED Talks video to watch: Michael Pollan on Botany of Desire. Good presenter. Good ideas. On the Conversation’s page, I summed up what was said. Read that. And then Google a lot, and you might …
Nix.nu. Nix is Swedish for “Nope”, and also the name of a registry, with which you can register your phone number. Call 020-27 70 00 from the phone you want to have registered as “not callable for marketing”. Instructions: How to register with Nix. Bonus reflection: Is direct tele sales a dying art form? More …
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olledinner.info is the brain-childling of Ruk, who’d heard me say that I’d labeled the days on which I’m responsible for dinner. http://olledinner.info/2008-06-19 will give you a date which is not today, and YYYY-DD-MM… is the URL form you can play with. I noted the RSS and iCal symbols just later. Fantabulous. Thanks!
This error.log entry confused me: [Wed Jun 11 17:09:03 2008] [error] [client 72.30.215.46] \ File does not exist: /var/www/that-darned-site/SlurpConfirm404 Looking it up in Yahoo Webcrawler FAQ unconfused me. (After I’d looked it up, I saw that the IP is owned by Inktomi Corp. – ye olde searche outfit.)
Your Debian Sarge’s web serving has gone weird on you. You restart processes, trouble prevails. Then try this. sudo netstat -tlnp What you’d need to get the apache2 process id, to sudo kill -9 <your process ID here> it. A few times… When all are dead, restart. “It’s a Sarge thing.”