BZflag
February 11, 2001 by Eric Richardson
I was just cleaning up some stuff in /usr/local/ and found a copy of BZflag. I love this game. I remember running it on the SGI Indy and having it be so incredibly slow. Now it runs on Linux, Windows, and Solaris as well as the SGI. Fun stuff.
eThreads news
February 5, 2001 by Eric Richardson
I just realized that the modify function has been broken in #{node "7"}eThreads#{/node} for weblogs. I think I'm going to rewrite all of that (so that you have the same features in modify as in creating a post) right now. Together with the domain binding stuff which I finished (and used extensively) but never posted, that should be good enough for a 1.3 release.
fun with packet sniffing
February 5, 2001 by Eric Richardson
Someone needs to port something like etherpeg to Linux. I imagine it wouldn't be too hard, and it would be very cool as a webcollage like screensaver.
In a similar vein, Etherape is a cool little tool for seeing where network traffic is going. Much fun, and producing nice pictures. That's really my only requirement for a piece of software. I do run Enlightenment, after all.
SOAP
February 1, 2001 by Eric Richardson
I have a problem. I want to start using SOAP for some RPC type stuff. It sounds like it's absolutely perfect for what I want, and the Perl SOAP implementation is supposed to be great. So where's the problem? I have absolutely no idea how it works. I can find plenty of docs on the spec, but I don't want that. All I want is a step-by-step guide that says "here's what you have to do to use SOAP". Is that too much to ask?
lyx
January 30, 2001 by Eric Richardson
I just installed a new version of Lyx (my word processor of choice) and found that it now supports rcs version control. That's awesome. While I doubt I'll see much of a market for side-by-side diffs of English papers, it's awesome to be able to see the evolution of a doc.