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October 24, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I just spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out why IRIX couldn't find terminfo on one of the Indys. Despite the fact I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, I finally got it working after realizing that when I moved /usr/share/ to /share/, I forgot to symlink to it...
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October 17, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I'm still debating on which quote I'm going to use for tomorrow. Here are the current front-runners: — Continue Reading...
the wisdom of fortune
October 17, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I was sitting here reading fortunes, looking for a quote for the "honors assembly," when I saw this:
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson
and now, for an afternoon of coding
October 16, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I'm had my obligatory 60oz of pre-coding Surge, turned off most of the flourescent lights, and put together an 8 1/2 hour playlist of Antiloop, Massive Attack, and Portishead. I'm now officially ready to pound out code.
it's a bird, no it's a plane...
October 16, 1999 by Eric Richardson
So I'm sitting here working on a Saturday morning, and all of a sudden I hear this fan type noise (over music I was playing) outside the building (that's impressive right there... I never hear stuff outside the building). I get up and walk towards the door, and the noise grows to sound like a jet engine. I then realize it's simply our generator, doing a weekly test run. Wow. That thing's monsterous.