I’m moving a crapload of crap, in the form of roomstuff, from one room to another. I mentioned this before. As such, my connection to the wired may be very spotty early next week. Good luck, and God Bless.
The StClairCollege campus has a standard desktop workstation installation of WindowsXP, which includes both IE and Mozilla 1.7.2. (No Firefox for some reason.) The campus has a HTTP/Socks proxy server, and all http traffic is configured at the browser level to be routed through it. Non-proxied port-80 traffic used to work (as of last week), [...]
News feeds have been running a story recently regarding Homeland Security Suits visiting a toystore, seemingly with the sole intention of enforcing intellectual property rights.
When the two agents arrived at the store, the lead agent asked Cox whether she carried a toy called the Magic Cube, which he said was an illegal copy of the [...]
It seems that my sister will be moving back out of the basement and into a bedroom upstairs. Specifically, mine. I will be moving into the psudo-office-y type bedroom (which was earlier vacated by my sister’s move to the basement). This will be an improvement for me in terms of space.
However, the benifit to me [...]
The scrape of the Megatokyo Forums continues its slow, but steady progress. We’re compiling a database of all topicid to postid associations, in order to build an automagical url-style converter.
We’re more than half done. 51%
My Ontario Student Loan came in today! I have successfully paid off the visa nazis, who were invoked to pay for my textbooks this year. I’m glad to have them off my back.
This semester’s tuition has been paid from that pool already, so after all bill settling I have about $100 of government play money [...]
The scrape until this point had been designed to use a brute-force technique to download every possible thread, existing or not, from the Megatokyo Forums . By exploiting the idea that old threads, upon conversion from Infocap’s ubb.Threads to Invision Power Board, are numbered the same as the first post within them, lets us take [...]
LEMUR is a handy and modular touchpanel based controller designed for audio and multimedia real-time applications. Our technology associates multitouch capabilities with visual display. LEMUR is provided with an extensible library of User Interface Objects such as faders, switchs, pads, keyboards, strings, etc. A software editor (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux) allows the user to build [...]
Everything you can imagine is real.
- Picasso
We’ve finally got the cwdb2/Import functionality working and semi-tested.
Currently the ability to pre-select what’s being imported, be it just the first post, or the whole thread, has been removed. In addition, the ability to import an entire thread with the parent-child relationships intact is gone. I’ll fix this later.
The usual applies: Import things and try [...]