December 2007 archive

Doomed!

Anyone still playing Doom out there? I came across a custom level I made way back in 1995 (give or take a year) and realized that the world shouldn't be deprived of this great treasure.
I think it's a decent, playable level, with good "texturization." There are two difficulty levels: 1-2 is fairly easy, [...]

Ruthless Massively Parallel Trial-and-Error with a Feedback Cycle

Glyn Moody points to Simon Willison pointing to an old 2001 post by Linus Torvalds. An oldie but a goodie, I'm including it here for greater memory permanence.
In response to a comment that "Linux really isn't going anywhere in particular and seems to be making progress through sheer luck," Linus writes:

Hey, that's not a [...]

Playing the Leeann Chin Gift Card Investment Game

(Part of being on break means I can write totally inane, off-topic posts...)
We get takeout from Leeann Chin once per week, usually on Fridays. This is about the third Christmas season now (that I can remember) where they offer a gift card deal: buy a $40 gift card and receive an additional $10 "free" [...]

Updating the Linksys BEFSR41 Router Firmware from GNU/Linux

One of the challenges you run in to when moving to GNU/Linux is that simple little things may not be supported. For example, updating the firmware on your router. Linksys provides some rinky-dink program to install the firmware from Windows, but doesn't tell you how or if you can do it from GNU/Linux. [...]

Long Canyon Trail

Long Canyon Trail in Sedona, Arizona.
I enjoyed this trail, but we didn't go as far down it as we might have liked. It's one of those "out-and-back" kinds of trails, so with every step you take, you're thinking about how you'll have to retrace it later. Having already done Doe Mountain earlier in the [...]