October 2007
60 posts
“Lots of folks ask “why doesn’t sun just do the JDK for Mac?”....”
– http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/solaris_and_os_x_continued
Flushing the Leopard DNS cache
$ dscacheutil -flushcache
It’s been pointed out that I could consider Twitter a microblogging platform, and that many people do. But (a) I prefer to keep twitter an ambient socialability thing, and (b) the 140 character limit is just too annoyingly constraining.
No longer syndicating anything into the tumblr feed. Seems like a mis-use of it, frankly. Let’s see if I can’t put real things here.
jerakeen: Not going to ph drinks. Alas. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: I has a Phantom Hourglass (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: argh, my head (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: @danhon 10. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: This Star Trek movie has a car chase in it. This is not starting well. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: watching Star Trek - Nemesis. I don’t seem to remember this one. I hope that’s not because it was very very bad. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: @ph hello paul! (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: bah, cruddy office internet connection. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: @blackbeltjones I think I can provide a DSPhat/GBA-SP charger if you needs. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Getting annoyed at twitter. I’m getting tweets delivered out of order and up to 20 minutes late in some cases. Pity noone uses jaiku. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: I can has IMAP (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Charlie Brooker for Ruler of the Universe! (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Preparing for Charlie Brooker (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: @plasticbagUK they were thinking ‘now he won’t miss the whole of the rest of the conference because of slide panic’? (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: being reminded of the wonderfulness of Internet Explorer and Javascript debugging. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: the entire world is Yellow. Very odd. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: haircut (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Moo stickers have arrived. Rah. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: once again my laptop was red-hot in my bag and I had to yank the battery. Day really not starting well. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Old stReet station annoyingly closed, because of technical difficulties. Or maybe a security alert. The story keeps changing. Still annoying (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: of course, everyone else got over the excitement of Moo _last_ year (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: My Moo stickers have been dispatched! So exciting! (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Preordering Leopard. Shiiiiny. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
Irritating 2038 Ruby / Rails behaviour
In a rails console:
>> (Time.now + 30.years).class
=> Time
>> (Time.now + 31.years).class
=> DateTime
>> (Time.now + 30.years).to_s
=> "Sat Oct 17 17:27:11 +0100 2037"
>> (Time.now + 31.years).to_s
=> "2038-10-17T17:27:13+01:00"
Time objects after about August 2028 can’t be expressed internally as ‘UNIX epoch (1st January 1970) plus N seconds’ where N is a 32...
jerakeen: I has a light! (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Drowning in 7-day-old Jaiku catchup messages. Classy. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: I _cannot_ get ‘Still Alive’ out of my head. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Anyone else use the twitter/jabber interface? It doesn’t send me twitters when I’m not online, and I’m sure it used to. Am I doing somet … (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Damnit, why do i only get horribly ill at the weekend? (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: does whisky go off? Have found random half-empty bottle in a cupboard.. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: failing to build ruby-spidermonkey. Curse the state of language bindings. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
Running a Jabber server under Debian with eJabberd
I like to run my own jabber server, so that I can be contacted as tom@jerakeen.org. Also, I’m a sucker for punishment. I’ve run serveral different Jabber servers over the last year or so, and yesterday I started toying with ejabberd. It was probably the easiest to set up of any of the servers I’ve tried, and I recommend it.
I’m running Debian etch, and installing the daemon was a...
jerakeen: fb:multi-friend-selector seriously rocks (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: wondering why twitter don’t send me jabber notifications when I’m not online. Very annoying. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: ugh, I get into the office, take the laptop out of the bag, and it’s red-hot and the fan is going like anything. Technology. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: playing with ejabberd. I’m just a sucker for punishment. (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: going home to play portal until the space-time continuum collapses (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: @monkchips you did _not_ just auto-reply to a twitter, did you? (via Twitter / jerakeen)
jerakeen: Ok, ok, I give in. I’ll get the Orange Box. (via Twitter / jerakeen)