So Andy gets a duel g5 machine as a present. He empties out the case, and stuffs an athlon into it. Now he is happily running Windows XP.
When I showed my friend, who happens to love Apple, he looked sick. He did not say anything to me. He just put his hands on his head and was in shock. I wish I had a picture of that.
That guy needs to carry around a digital camera just to catch the faces he is going to be seeing as he tells this tale.
[Update: It’s a hoax]
I needed to password protect a page, but only if it was not being requested from a trusted ip address. I was not sure apache could do this, but lo and behold, a magical Satisfy directive.
.htaccess file
Satisfy Any AuthName "Password protected area" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /home/joeshmoe/.htpasswd require valid-user Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from 10.1.1.79
You know you have been writing too much PHP when: While writing you find yourself putting “;“‘s at the end of complete thoughts instead of periods;
Like this;
I completed a small web programming project this morning, and spent within a minute of my initial estimated time. It comes from making lots of pots.
I just setup a site powered by the blogging software Wordpress . It’s got an extremely easy setup process.
Teleflip. Easy way to email to an SMS phone. I wonder who is paying for it.
My parents got a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. (Within 20 minutes of turning it on, my mom has begun talking to it. )
We have Greater Swiss Mountain Dog. There are only a couple thousand of the breed in the USA. It’s a very friendly, tight-knit group of dog owners. My brother and I have spent the night at someone’s house in Florida based on the fact that our dog was related to their dog.
The family of one of our dog’s brothers purchased a Roomba and loved it. During conversations with the breeder, the breeder heard about the Roomba and purchased one. Our dog’s breeder would be know as a super-node in network speak. In addtion to having a many dog owners that she communicates with, she helps organize events and knows most of the swissy breeders in the USA. Word of the cool Roomba spread like wildfire. I have heard from my brother that over thirty swissy people have bought one so far.
Embedding Ruby in C++ (Since the only links I don’t lose are the ones I blog.)
Apparently, Darpa and Segway have made a version of the segway designed to by used for robots. Several universities are playing with the stubby buggers.
One team using the segway bots is developing soccer playing robots designed to play along with with humans on segways.
Once I played with building a “brain” for winbolo. Since I realized I did not have the time or the knowledge of C to create a truly autonomous tank, I decided to do a “cooperative” AI. Essentially, the bot would run right at a sighted enemy and blaze away, or it would flock together with other friendly tanks. When played with several of these bots, you would find the flock of them, and then drive toward the enemy. As you moved away from the center of the flock, the flock would follow. When the flock spotted the enemy all the tanks rushed him.
Considering the ridicules small amount of programming I did, it worked out okay. Essentially, I offloaded all of the higher level thinking to the human.