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Stack machine experiment

I fiddled around with a stack machine model. The FSM is the result. Download it here. Documentation is included, but written pretty much in a haste

Blogs and lost bets

After losing a bet with a friend of mine, I will now have to care for a blog during the summer time. This is what happened. Oh well.

ArticleWorld

Also to blame for a lack of updates around here is ArticleWorld.org, for whom I have written a few articles. It's a nice website, and I also happen to be in the, well, walk of fame B-).

Java2K

I never really liked Java. And, because I sometimes spend my time with a few esoteric programming language, I found THE alternative to Java: Java2K.

The Windows dependency hell

I was always ironic about how Red Hat and its RPM can't manage some damn dependencies. Well, I just ran into it on a Windows (qemu virtual machine :-D). I'm trying to learn something about .NET so I decided I use the native platform instead of fscking around with Mono. I've used Mono before and I didn't like it, there's still much to do, much to document and very much to implement.

Well, off I headed and downloaded the .NET SDK. I find it hard to imagine what the hell can it be in almost 400M of files. Qt barely has 50 MB with all the sources, the documentation and quite a few examples.

I imagined that, since I'm downloading the SDK, it's obvious that I want to run the programs I write. So I either have the Framework, or, if not, I want to install it, so the damn installer could have at least bothered to download the framework for me. But no.

So I downloaded it normally.

Now it needs another versio of Microsoft Windows Installer, this is going to be interesting :-D. Please, give my pacman/pkgsrc/apt/portage back, thank you.

Funnily enough, I decided I'd try to see just how much would it take to do something similar on Linux. I throwed up Ubuntu on my other computer, which is a poor Pentium 600 with 128 MB RAM, so the performance itself was comparable to that of Qemu running with nice -20 on my 2.6 GHz desktop with 1 GB or RAM. 40 minutes later I had Mono up and running. It took me almost 40 minutes to fscking install Windows, Firefox and configure the basics.

Moving, damnit

Eventually, I decided to change my webhost. 50webs is a nice host if you want a quick website, but was just nowhere near what I wanted. I'm also able to use the lucidCMS here, a very lightweight CMS that does its job perfectly here. I'm still moving content, things may go horribly wrong.

Updates

Despite school being off these days (teachers on strike) I haven't been able to do almost anything for this website, a thing I hope to change during the winter holidays. I also received a few e-mails. So: no, I have not published any fiction text. I have had some published articles. I do plan to publish some of my poetry but not actively seeking a way or a place to do that 2. My favorite programming language is C. The programming language I'd never use is Visual Basic 3. I don't like punk 4. Yes, I DO have a girlfriend. Her name is Anca, a wonderful and (very) supportive girl that sort of puts some colors into this monochrome life of mine.

A nice website

I found a pretty interesting website while browsing around, OneAndOneIsTwo. It actually caught my attention with this very interesting article about why Linux is not Windows. The guy who owns seems to know what he's talking about. And he likes fvwm2, too. Which is a good thing :-D


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