CAKE reached a new milestone early this morning. It now successfully both generates and parses messages that use the new protocol. It also successfully detected a re-used session id. I also think the code that does this is also a lot better designed than the old code was. It's easier to see how to put it in the context of a larger system that ( Read more... )

Case in point, the Net::IP module. The documentation looks nice. It handles IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. It looks clean and simple.

Then, I decided I would like to be able to have IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses match the IPv4 address ranges I'm singling out for special treatment. So I look into its tool for extracting an IPv4 address from an IPv6 ( Read more... )

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I went to see Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief with tazfrog today. Ever since I saw the Disney version of Hercules I've been wary of movies that try to adapt greek mythology, so I was very worried that this movie would totally destroy it in the same manner as the aforementioned Disney film do.

Now, some films that seem like they might ( Read more... )

I watched Avatar recently with a friend. And we came away with some very similar opinions and some very different ones. Predictably, it was the difference of opinions that stuck and we had a rather strident discussion about it.

I do not wish to be worried about spoilers, so I'm just putting this whole thing behind a cut and not worrying about ( Read more... )

I purchased Clearwire for tazfrog because Speakeasy was being annoying about getting DSL into her place (so annoying that I dropped them myself) and Comcast was totally unpalatable for any number of reasons.

It worked out well. I set up a nice Linux based router for her that would automatically configure a nice 6to4 IPv6 tunnel with the public IP ( Read more... )

I put my first Erlang program in a pastebin. It's a concurrent prime sieve. Likely not the most efficient way to do things, but I'm still all pleased with myself. :-)

I may or may not choose to program more sophisticated things in Erlang, but I figured a passing familiarity was in order. Especially since I'm thinking of using CouchDB for ( Read more... )

And it made me realize what's wrong with marriage in America. There is a complete lack of matrimonial flamethrowers. I think that this is just what we need to save marriage.

And the only way I'll let myself be associated with a patent is if it's clear the patent will never be asserted against any software meeting the open source definition or meeting the free software definition. This is a concession he's unwilling to make. In particular, he wants some kind of definition for 'commercial' against which the patent can ( Read more... )

A conversation with my friend TemporalG in which the concept of a 'semantic jinx' is introduced:

• (22:02:49) TemporalG: how does someone maintain code written like this?
• (22:02:51) TemporalG: just never touch it?
• (22:04:47) Omnifarious: *chuckle* I don't know.
• (22:04:54) TemporalG: hrm, maybe the solution is to install GCC 3 for the host... -_-
• (22:05 ( Read more... )