Computing
I Want to Cry
Posted by Stephen on July 2, 2006 in Computing
I’m pretty bummed out after reading part of a transcript of a Senate Commerce Committee meeting on Net Neutrality. Ted Stevens (from Alaska) apparently received the entire Internet in his e-mail: I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just […]
Total Burnination
Posted by Stephen on June 29, 2006 in Computing
This story won’t mean anything to you unless you’re familiar with Unix. I was waiting for a friend in the lobby of the Hilton down at Union Square. Near me was a middle-aged woman speaking loudly into a pay phone. “Yes, yes, that’s right. You’ve got it. Now, here’s what I […]
Markdown to the Rescue
Posted by Stephen on June 21, 2006 in Computing
I noticed after posting all that C code on my journal that WordPress was generating invalid XHTML. After struggling with the WordPress dashboard, I couldn’t fix the problem, so I installed a Michel Fortin’s Markdown plugin. Every works so much better now. Originally created by John Gruber, Markdown is a really sweet markup language. […]
Bizarre SDF Outages
Posted by Stephen on June 7, 2006 in Computing
The SDF Public Access Unix System has had some strange outages lately. The machines are running, and I can access my home directory via FTP. Unfortunately, my SSH sessions stall before the motd is even displayed. What’s the deal?
Simple Programming Exercises, Part III
Posted by Stephen on May 31, 2006 in Computing, Programming, Stuff
I’ve heard that, in some job interviews, people have had to write a function that determines whether a string is a Palindrome. I don’t know whether this is true, but I thought it would be a good practice exercise. My C function operates on the following assumptions: The string is just a regular C-style […]