Monthly Archives: April 2006

Judge disallows defense witness who might confuse the jury

Posted on April 4, 2006 by Eric

Seen in the “California news in brief” column of the San Jose Mercury News on Monday, 3-Apr-2006: SACRAMENTO Ruling hurts defense in Lodi terrorism trial A judge dealt a blow to the defense team of a father and son facing … Continue reading →

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Moving into a shared apartment; theft

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

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Too many file access APIs; standard C library could use some improvement

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Eric

Suppose 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 … Continue reading →

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Ice Age 2: Meltdown

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

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New server performance problems fixed by rebooting

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Eric

The 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 … Continue reading →

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brain implant; cellular stasis; flying; electronics store; freeway exits

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Eric

I 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 … Continue reading →

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Bizarre ssh server slowness on Fedore Core 5

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

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