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I had to fill out a Bio today… here’s what I wrote.
My background includes experience in system administration, network operation, technical support, and development of applications on server and client side. My primary operating system is Debian GNU/Linux. My primary programming languages are C# and Perl. I run a small family ISP on a not-for-profit basis: http://colliertech.org/ I am a “charter” member of a group originally…
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RIP (Mary) Norma Coggin Adams
(Sourced from http://www.remickgendron.com/, with corrections) Norma Coggin Adams HAMPTON — Norma Coggin Adams, 79, of 26 Dearborn Ave., died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, in Exeter Hospital. She was born Nov. 29, 1928, in Lynn, Mass., the daughter of the late John and Esther (Stolpe) Coggin. She was a 1946 graduate of Lynn English High School.…
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RIP Miles Dudley Adams
[ Originally published on: Thursday, January 03, 2008 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette ] NORTHAMPTON – Miles Dudley Adams, 18, died Dec. 30 at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield from injuries incurred after being struck by a motor vehicle on Interstate 91. Born in Northampton on March 20, 1989, Miles lived the first seven years…
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hello world in perl6 with parrot
$ mkdir -p /usr/src/svn/perl/parrot && \ cd /usr/src/svn/perl/parrot/ && \ svn co https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk && \ cd trunk && \ perl Makefile.PL && \ make && \ cd languages/perl6/ && \ make && \ ../../parrot perl6.pbc say “hello world” hello world ^D $ perl -e ‘ open my $helloFH, q{>}, “hello.p6″; my $newline=” “; print $helloFH…
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Comcast does not support use of firefox with their chat client.
user C.J. has entered room C.J.(Mon Oct 08 2007 00:36:24 GMT-0700 (PDT))> I want a copy of my billing history. analyst Michael has entered room Michael(Mon Oct 08 2007 00:39:15 GMT-0700 (PDT))> Hello C.J., Thank you for contacting Comcast Live Chat Support. My name is Michael. Please give me one moment to review your information.…
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gcc CLI front- and back-ends in svn
Look ma! gcc is preparing to play nice with ECMA-335! http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cli.html I should really read more about it… my computer is compiling the branch right now while I work. The bit I’m most excited about is the potential to call into c++ libraries. Do the libraries all need to be compiled to IL, or can…
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Producing relocatable packages with the GNU build system
I’ve recently found a need to create relocatable versions of some of my favorite libraries (produced, not-so-coincidentally by the GNU build system). You might find yourself asking “What is relocatable software, and why should I care?” Maybe I can help. A piece of software is said to be “relocatable” when it does not rely on…
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Holy pull-my-pants-down, Batman!
It looks like Adobe Creative Suite 3 kicks your security in the nuts while it installs its call home software. It sounds as if it a) doesn’t ask for permission to shut your firewall down, b) doesn’t inform you that it is shutting your firewall down and c) doesn’t bring your firewall back up when…
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Moved groups at AMZN
I moved to the “Merchendising Applications” group at Amazon. I’m ramping up, but it looks like this group has the potential to make a very large positive impact on the quality of the site. I’m doped up on pain meds, so I’m going to stop now before I start breaking things…
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Invested in CTXS
I just had my first vesting in work stocks. I sold a few and re-invested some of the proceeds in Citrix, who plans to purchase XenSource, the employer of Keir Fraser, Tim Deegan, James Bulpin and Ian Campbell, the primary contributors to the development branch of the xen source tree for the last month, and…