Archive for April, 2006
Judge disallows defense witness who might confuse the jury
0 Comments Published by Eric April 4th, 2006 in Blog/website/news comments, Freedom and libertySeen in the “California news in brief” column of the San Jose Mercury News on Monday, 3-Apr-2006:
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Ruling hurts defense in Lodi terrorism trial
A judge dealt a blow to the defense team of a father and son facing federal terrorism-related charges when he refused to allow the testimony of a former FBI agent now working as [...]
I was moving into a large apartment in a highrise, which I was going to share with a friend. He wasn’t there when I arrived. As I was moving in and unpacking, another guy showed up and started poking around into my stuff. He said he was my other roommate. He wandered back out, and [...]
Too many file access APIs; standard C library could use some improvement
0 Comments Published by Eric April 2nd, 2006 in LinuxSuppose you’re writing a C program and want to open a file and read some data. The obvious way to do this is to use the C stdio library, which isn’t terribly well designed, but is at least standard. And it will for the most part work the same on Linux, Unix, and [...]
Everyone knows that sequels are rarely as good as the original, but I think Ice Age 2 is nearly as good as Ice Age was. It certainly kept me laughing. There were good gags, plenty of action and adventure, and though some plot elements were a bit predictable, it generally held my interest [...]
New server performance problems fixed by rebooting
2 Comments Published by Eric April 1st, 2006 in FedoraThe ssh problem I reported a little while ago was actually a general network performance problem affecting all TCP connections to non-local hosts. Rebooting the server fixed that problem and the Wordpress problem.
I don’t understand what was wrong, nor why rebooting fixed it. I don’t like mysterious problems that go away when you [...]
brain implant; cellular stasis; flying; electronics store; freeway exits
0 Comments Published by Eric April 1st, 2006 in DreamsI underwent surgery to get some sort of brain implant. I’m not sure exactly what all it was supposed to do, although an incidental capability was that it would record all my sensory input on some kind of tapes that could be played back later. The procedure involved expanding the top of my [...]
If I ssh from home or work to my new colo server running Fedora Core 5 (64-bit), the input side of the ssh session is painfully slow. If I type command lines fast, they echo back very slowly, one character at a time. Output, on the other hand, comes back at reasonable [...]