March 2008
6 posts
Why I love the UO
The UO sucks at many things, sometimes quite horribly (the behaviour that Ian just experienced from the graduate school). However, this is overshadowed (at least for me) by the total awesomness of it being a research institution. Because of this focus, the UO has a large, thriving research library, complete with an entire staff of expert librarians in various subjects who are will to meet with you...
A standard implementation...
First, read http://reddit.com/info/6cdsr/comments/ Done? Good. So, I was intrigued by the possiblity of creating a standards test suite, like ACID, but comprehensive. How much work would that be? I’m guessing a lot, especially in the generation of reference images, but you never know. Of course, the format would differ from ACID — I’m thinking one test per page, plus a page that...
Webmin
I just installed Webmin for the first time in I don’t know how many years, and am extremely wowed by its current interface, especially considering the ugly duckling I had to put up with the last time I tried it (though in fairness, that was back when building Gentoo from a Stage 1 tarball was the only way to reliably install it). But, to make things even better, it has a companion server...
Starbucks Honey Latte review
igowen: marco: An unforeseen problem with our regular coffee shop left us with Starbucks as our only choice this afternoon. Since they make mediocre coffee, they need to resort to gimmicky drinks. I tried the new Honey Latte. I don’t think anyone in charge of designing or constructing this drink has ever had honey. Or a latte. Not recommended. I had a free sample of the same drink last...
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OpenID Server Released!
I’ve released the OpenID server I developed overnight a couple of weeks ago for the ACM under the MIT license. I’m quite pleased with the result. git clone url: git://github.com/swsnider/openid-uo.git tarball of git repo: http://github.com/swsnider/openid-uo/tarball/master