I got this link when googling "Serpinski Knitting" - Knitting for Fun: A Recursive Sweater (an academic paper meshing computer science and knitting) ((Note: you probably won't be able to read this paper unless you pay for it, or in a college or work for a company kind enough to pay for a subscription to this service))

Edit: Ok, I read a bit of it ( Read more... )

So, I may not have mentioned, but my new addiction is GTA San Andreas - it's sucking me in, slowly but surely. One of the problems I have is tracking all the little secrets on the map. I've found an excellent page that shows all the things I have to target, and gives helpful little descriptions of where to find them. BUT, I can't figure out a ( Read more... )

It is with equal measures of pride and disgust that I'm in work writing perl code that is probably worth of some sort of entry in The Daily WTF. There again, it's perl, and I'm writing a web interface, of course it's going to be painful to read. I just happen to help the pain with ternary operators.

So, I was trying to find a nice generic way to ensure that I got my ssh-agent started.

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Yet another gnome rant below. Yet I still use it.

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Just for a bit of background: In work, there's a tool we use that's central to our work. It schedules our tests, and tries to find a way to run all the tests we want to run in a reasonable amount of time. It is the most sophisticated harness I have come across. The way we sell it to other groups in work, you'd think it would cure cancer. For the ( Read more... )

Someone posted this in work recently, and I made a note to watch it later - I just did. The numbers are definitely interesting but what I find very intriguing near the end is the sort of computational capacity is predicted for the next while ( Read more... )

This is just one of those silly nerdish overkill scenarios where I wonder which of the two options sounds less creepy ( Read more... )

Unix/Opensolaris nerdage below the cut

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Opensolaris stuff below.

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