June 2007 archive

PermutationIterator.java (in honor of GPLv3)

To celebrate this great day, here's a little bit of free software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3: a Java class I wrote to find all permutations for a given string. I may later post some more in the way of documentation, but for now, por ejemplo:
PermutationIterator p [...]

How do you disable the CTRL+T 'move to trash' shortcut in GNOME/Nautilus?

10 July 2007, Answered! Thanks to und0 for explaining in the comments. See below...
I just discovered an inconvenient default behavior of the Nautilus file browser. (At least, it appears to be a default in Ubuntu 7.04/Feisty Fawn.) I thought I was in my Firefox window and pressed <CTRL> T to open a [...]

A Library is a Vault for Locking Up Books

Apparently.

U'S DEAL WITH GOOGLE
Disrespect for property
If I were to walk into a photocopy shop and ask for a duplicate of a copyright-protected book, the shop workers would show me the door. It does not matter whether I intended to distribute snippets of the text around the world or do anything else with the copy -- [...]

Using GNU/Linux: Happy, Happy

I'm happily setting up shop in Ubuntu. There's much to do, and now that I'm actually using it, I'm even more scattered in my approach. I run around getting this or that working as needed. All of which takes time, which is one reason I haven't written much lately.

Another reason is that [...]

At the Blue Ox Market

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
"Up north" in Minnesota. Yah, sure.
This is the grocery store in Akeley, Minnesota. The mural is of Paul Bunyan's blue ox, "Babe."

Brian Behlendorf: Open Source as a Business Strategy

I just finished reading Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, which is a collection of essays about free and open source software edited by Chris DiBona (and others) and published by O'Reilly in January of 1999. It's an interesting snapshot of free software at the time and it still reads very well [...]

On the other side...

Or at least: a foot through the door. Or maybe both feet, with a hand resting on the door frame.
I'm getting moved in at 1776 Freedom Lane. Just a few boxes unpacked so far. I have backups set up going to the slug, and am getting mail in Thunderbird. I [...]