IRC log for #brlcad on 20071019

02:16.18 *** join/#brlcad yukonbob (n=yukonbob@198.235.198.234)
02:39.36 brlcad actually haven't seen a lick of tv in like four days now (since Heros)
02:39.49 brlcad and that's par for the course
02:39.59 brlcad even the past few nights coding have been music nights
02:58.49 ``Erik heh, so ya missed southpark, silverman, and drawn together? O.o
02:58.56 brlcad yup
02:59.10 brlcad I haven't really seen much southpark via tv in *years*
02:59.21 brlcad some over the net though
03:00.27 ``Erik emacs on a mac, particularly using X, is very not newb friendly
03:00.44 ``Erik meta in particular O.o
03:29.47 brlcad I avoid alt, generally a non-portable key no matter what the app
03:38.14 ``Erik <-- has no idea how to rebind meta to something else
03:41.35 brlcad meta is alt and esc
03:42.34 brlcad just it's modal as esc .. you don't press and hold it, you press and release, then press the secondary
03:43.58 brlcad i.e. alt-'>' and alt-'<' are the same as esc,'>' and esc,'<' where - is press and hold and , means press then release
03:44.09 brlcad those two are jump to end and beginning of file, btw
03:44.51 brlcad pretty excellent cheat sheet that I used when I started: http://bzflag.bz/~sean/emacsrefcard.pdf
03:47.21 brlcad the built-in tutorial isn't half bad either, ctrl-x h t
03:47.46 brlcad it explains most of the concepts
03:48.37 brlcad hah, awesomeness: http://www.ohloh.net/blog/worlds_oldest_source_code_repositories
03:51.17 louipc lol
05:32.23 yukonbob brlcad: congrats :)
05:33.32 yukonbob ``Erik: esc++ -- alt is non-portable, and at least on my keyboards, too contortion-like...
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13:15.22 ``Erik so let me get this straight... vim sucks because to enter the more powerful editor commands, you generally have to push escape, then the command key
13:15.37 ``Erik but emacs is better, because... well... the alt key sucks, so you have to push esc... then the command key
13:15.51 ``Erik :>
13:15.55 ``Erik oi, mal
13:17.50 Z80-Boy (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
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13:51.16 Maloeran Hey Erik
13:57.34 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/misc/win32-msvc7/tkimg/tkimg.vcproj: Update to accomodate the earlier reorganization.
14:28.38 *** join/#brlcad MinuteElectron (n=MinuteEl@silentflame/member/pdpc.base.minuteelectron)
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15:17.35 Maloeran Hrmph. Does news.bbc.co.uk resolve for anyone? If yes, what's the IP?
15:23.39 MinuteElectron resolves for me, checking ip
15:24.21 MinuteElectron 212.58.226.29
15:24.26 MinuteElectron Maloeran: ...
15:25.18 MinuteElectron Speaking of IP's resolving, can anyone check whether eve-online.com works for them?
15:27.20 Maloeran It resolves to 87.237.39.199 but the server closes connection immediately upon reception of http requests
15:27.35 Maloeran And for some reason I can't read the BBC today
15:27.52 brlcad ~nslookup news.bbc.co.uk
15:28.58 Maloeran The IP works although without images as it fails to resolve some other bbc.co.uk DNS
15:29.15 MinuteElectron ~nslookup eve-online.com
15:29.17 brlcad I get that it's a cname to newswww.bbc.net.uk
15:29.22 brlcad which doesn't resolve to anything
15:29.32 brlcad ~nslookup newswww.bbc.net.uk
15:29.35 brlcad (via dig)
15:29.47 brlcad looks like someone messed up
15:29.59 brlcad probably take it a couple hours to propagate the fix
15:30.15 brlcad way too popular a site for that to go unnoticed for more than a couple seconds
15:30.24 ``Erik heh, unless they really botched up the ttl and serial or something :D
15:30.24 Maloeran Neat
15:31.18 ``Erik it used to be that the delimiter between competent sysadmins and newbies was the ability to set up bind
15:38.01 brlcad really? never thought that bind was that tricky to set up .. just a fair bit to remember when you don't poke at it very often
15:38.15 brlcad now setting up a secure sendmail...
15:39.11 brlcad or recompiling your own custom kernel (and having it work reliably) .. that used to be quite a trick (when you had to do it entirely by hand)
15:39.11 Maloeran Ah, the BBC'S DNS is fixed
15:39.58 Maloeran Kernel recompilation is terribly simple these days, I'm not sure why it's commonly seen as something obscure never to attempt even by many Linux users
15:40.48 brlcad now it is, yeah .. it's been really simplified
15:42.58 ``Erik custom kernel on what?
15:43.28 brlcad exactly
15:43.47 ``Erik linux in the 1.2 days was about as fun as shoving a pen up your nostril until it pops out, but bsd has always been pretty damn easy, even the 'hard' ones like obsd
15:44.31 ``Erik once linux got toys like 'oldconfig' and that curses config, it was pretty easy *shrug* :)
15:44.49 brlcad it totally matter how obscure the hardware was, having to know which kernel modules were buggy as hell and needed to be avoided, which worked well with certain others, digging up details about your hardware just to know what to turn on/off, no help on what the options even went to without reading the sources, etc
15:45.06 ``Erik heh
15:45.29 brlcad yeah, i'm talking pre-curses days, and before the CONFIG settings stuck
15:45.32 ``Erik you had to have those horrible details of hardware just to boot dos, *shudder* config.sys and autoexec.bat and those
15:45.34 Maloeran 1.2, that's 1995 or so? I think I was barely writing my first lines of code
15:45.48 brlcad yeah, around 1995, fun times
15:47.49 ``Erik ok, I've A) been ruined by scheme and B) am taking on too many new things at once O.o
15:49.52 ``Erik anyone know how to make a function take a functor as an argument in CL?
15:50.04 ``Erik meh, I do C daily
15:50.24 ``Erik but sometimes I want to shift out of first, so'z I do other languages, too
15:51.44 ``Erik (and the notion of running 'swank' on sbcl, then being able to connect and edit a running program interactively using 'slime' in emacs is... well, swank)
15:52.46 ``Erik scheme and C both hold the same symbol space for functions and variables, CL does not :/
15:53.31 Maloeran Eww.
15:53.42 brlcad ~cl
15:53.43 ibot somebody said cl was common lisp
15:54.17 brlcad I'd have to dig up some really old code
15:54.30 Maloeran Mmhm, writing a root keyboard logger was easier than I thought
15:54.44 ``Erik I'd hit the right page on google faster, I'd imagine
15:54.47 ``Erik heh
15:55.05 brlcad probably
15:55.10 brlcad that's why i'm not looking :)
15:56.14 MinuteElectron :)
15:56.14 ``Erik hm, mebbe funcall is the knob I'm missing
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16:14.26 ``Erik ah, that's how. lame
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16:43.31 yukonbob 'morning, cadheads
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18:23.47 yukonbob Hello, whirled.
18:28.19 poolio Hello, yukonbob.
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18:43.03 mikola Hello
18:51.46 MinuteElectron Maloeran: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/10/11/bbc_news_knocked_offline_by_performance_changes.html
19:32.12 ``Erik nice, (fib 40) took 20s, did a trivial memoization and (fib 1000) took 0.001s on the first 'pump'
19:48.12 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/other/tcl/win/tclWinPort.h: Conditionally undef INCL_WINSOCK_API_TYPEDEFS before defining.
19:50.21 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/other/tcl/generic/tclInt.h: Mods for getting BLT to compile on Windows.
19:50.34 *** join/#brlcad MinuteElectron (n=MinuteEl@silentflame/member/pdpc.base.minuteelectron)
19:53.37 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/other/libpng/png.h: Mod for Windows to expose a few deprecated functions for tkimg.
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19:55.36 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/mged/ (attach.c ged.c rtif.c): Minor mods for getting things compiled on Windows.
19:57.25 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/librt/dg_obj.c: dgo_cmd already declared in raytrace.h
19:59.55 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/fb/ (fb-pix.c fb-png.c): Minor mods for Windows.
20:03.05 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/include/raytrace.h: Added a function declaration for dgo_tree_cmd.
20:04.19 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/misc/win32-msvc7/ (4 files in 4 dirs): Updates for getting things to compile again.
20:05.15 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/rt/do.c: Minor mod for Windows.
20:14.13 ``Erik hum, interesting
20:14.31 ``Erik the C version with -O3 took 337.745 seconds
20:14.47 ``Erik for fib(40)
20:19.00 ``Erik (for a C version that can push out to fib(1000)... the version that spews wrong answers quickly was 2.5 seconds)
20:41.00 ``Erik hum, java just barely beats out the gmp C
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23:12.00 brlcad gah, wrong way bob..
23:28.19 ``Erik heh
23:28.32 ``Erik hey, brlcad, what time is jasons thing tomorrow?
23:28.42 ``Erik I got the date and location, but not the time O.o

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