Wisdom is the prime thing

Use the following commands to toggle this behavior:

:set ignorecase
:set noignorecase

Or, the simpler:

:set ic
:set noic

qemu is an open-source emulator. Thanks to it, I haven’t run Windows natively in a long time at home or at work.

After a kernel upgrade some time ago, networking no longer worked. Here is the error message that I would get when running qemu as a non-root user:

warning: could not configure /dev/net/tun: no virtual network emulation
Could not initialize device 'tap'

The only way I could get it to run was with sudo. Well, today I found the reason and the solution.

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In the past year I’ve spent a fair amount of time considering programming from a different level of abstraction than I usually do. Part of the reason for this has been frustrations I’ve had implementing ideas. Part of it has been a desire for more power in programming. Part of it has been a need to unify the many directions my programming takes into one whole. And largely, it is the unquenchable desire to reach faster, farther, higher.

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If so, you can have the latest posts from this weblog show up on your page. You can do the same thing for most other weblogs on the Internet and your other favorite sites, like Slashdot or ArchLinux. Here’s how.

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Words fail to express the outrage this news story occasions my moral sensibilities.

According to this article, O.J. Simpson has written a book called If I Did It, Here’s How it Happened, in which details how he murdered his ex-wife and her friend.

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What a difficult and arduous process this was! I’m not even sure that I am interested in doing it again, but I figure I should record this here for posterity’s sake, or to help some other poor soul trying to do the same.

The goal was to get a free setup on a Windows computer to do compilation with FLTK and Chicken. I used the Visual Studio 2005 Express edition, which was free from Microsoft. So, here are some problems I faced and the solutions I eventually found.

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Here is a handy setup to automate dumping OpenDocument files to other formats. I’ve had to set this up on a few computers, and I tired of having to look up on the Internet how to do it each time.

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The most elegant, powerful, and simple Linux distribution I have ever seen has become my distribution of choice: ArchLinux.

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