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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.