Comments for Running is therapy

Comment on local pkg server not starting by Nathan Powell

Nathan Powell — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:20:45 +0000

I know you are kidding, but one thing that I do agree with is that from a Linux Admin perspective the Solaris patching/packaging system always seemed overly complicated and dodgey.

There are arguments to explain that, but perception is reality for folks, and I think it gave Solaris packaging a bad name.

After I ran through that tutorial I rolled up rlwrap as well to see if what I did above got my head around it all, and my honest opinion is that IPS is pretty well done.

After some further investigation, the submission process to get a package into /contrib requires a spec file (that is largely (totally?) rpm compliant) that you don’t actually build with those directions, so that was slightly confusing at first. After a day to think about it though I think it makes sense.

Comment on local pkg server not starting by Bob Igo

Bob Igo — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:51:20 +0000

Wow, OpenSolaris works so well now! In the old days of Solaris, making a package required you to hand-edit a binary file by poking the spinning platter with a magnetized needle. This is so much better!

Comment on Upgrading the PAP2T ATA by Nathan Powell

Nathan Powell — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:12:36 +0000

Heh, I see I still have no smtp on here to send me an email when I get a comment…rats :)

Anyway, it affects what I hear in the house, not the caller. And yes it has Distinctive Rings settings.

Comment on Upgrading the PAP2T ATA by Bob Igo

Bob Igo — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:43:52 +0000

What sound does the ring cadence affect? Is it the rhythm of the ringing that the in-house phones make, or the “the other phone is ringing” noise that the caller hears when they call you? Just wondering if you could do some extra cool stuff with the ring cadence, like some special rhythm that identifies specific callers, like a custom ringtone on a cell phone.

Comment on Bleh by Eric Gervase

Eric Gervase — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:51:40 +0000

Bah.. that sucks dude…

Comment on Update! by rhigdon

rhigdon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:57:58 +0000

Nathan to get lower res camera. plx.

Comment on Update! by Don Spidell

Don Spidell — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:07:50 +0000

That ankle looks like it belongs to a woman who’s 9 months pregnant.

Comment on Reading/Printing a file by David Kaylor

David Kaylor — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:06:55 +0000

The Scala example was taken verbatim from Programming in Scala chapter 3. Ok by me to post it – may or may not be ok by the book’s authors.

Comment on Clojure/Java Interop by Alec Jacobson

Alec Jacobson — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:28:53 +0000

Sorry this is a comment to an old post (to which I couldn’t comment) http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/585 .
Anyway, I think you have a typo:

array = [foo, bar, baz]
puts array[rand(a.size)]

should read:

array = [foo, bar, baz]
puts array[rand(array.size)]

Comment on Clojure/Java Interop by David Whittington

David Whittington — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:22:05 +0000

The syntax is actually fairly old (it’s a Lisp after all), and there’s a reason it’s like that. Clojure programs are Clojure data structures. This means they can be manipulated at runtime using all the same tools you use to manipulate any other Clojure data structure. This allows syntactic abstract. For an example of why this is cool check out this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/pcalcado/lisp-macros-in-20-minutes-featuring-clojure-presentation