Monthly Archives: February 2006

Visiting my family in the year 2026

Posted on February 27, 2006 by Eric

I went to visit my family 20 years from now, apparently after not having seen them in a long time. Everyone seemed to be the same age they are now, but a lot of other things were different. The furnace … Continue reading →

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Power supply

Posted on February 23, 2006 by Eric

I was working on some electronic project on my grandfather’s workbench, and using his HP 63xx DC power supply to power it. The top had been removed from the power supply, but I don’t know why. Only after I was … Continue reading →

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Recursion

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Eric

I dreamt that I awakened from a dream, and wanted to hurry to write a blog entry about it before I forgot the dream.  I was staying with a friend of a friend, whose house was very large and opulent, … Continue reading →

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Glock now uses Cairo

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Eric

My simple analog clock program glock will now use the Cairo graphics library, if available at compile time, to render a slightly nicer looking clock. Cairo is generally available on systems with GTK+ 2.8 or later, such as Fedora Core … Continue reading →

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A bird in the hand

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Eric

Three wild birds flew into my apartment.  Two were fairly nondescript, but one was about six inches tall, and looked like a cross between a parrot and a penguin.  I was able to get the smaller ones to leave, but … Continue reading →

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New and used inkspitters

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Eric

For quite some time now I’ve wanted a color printer, especially one that can handle B-size paper (11 x 17 inches), and one that can print onto printable CD-R and DVD-R media. Traditionally CD-R printers have been very expensive, even … Continue reading →

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S3 should open-source the Linux drivers for their video cards

Posted on February 8, 2006 by Eric

S3 has just released their Chrome S27 graphics chip, and cards are starting to become available. This brings them back into a competitive position with ATI and NVidia. ATI and NVidia will not open-source their drivers for X.org, the open-source … Continue reading →

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Switching from Skype to SIP, and Asterisk PBX

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Eric

I’ve been using Skype for a while, and it mostly works OK, though I wish they’d hurry up and release a Linux client that uses ALSA for sound directly, instead of requiring OSS emulation. The Skype conferencing feature works well … Continue reading →

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Developing video games

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Eric

I stopped by a friends house.  We were going to go out to a movie.  He told me about the latest video game that he had written; it was becoming quite popular and making him a fair bit of money.  … Continue reading →

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Buying a refrigerator

Posted on February 2, 2006 by Eric

I was visiting Richard, a friend who lives in another city.  His refrigerator was full, so there was no where to put my perishable items.  Richard suggested that I go buy a refrigerator.  I pointed out that I didn’t have … Continue reading →

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