&ot Journeys' End: November 2006

Journeys' End

We walk many paths, many roads
Till death halts our steps.
Every day a new adventure,
A new journey of self discovery.

20061124

Look what I got davy...

This promises to be fun! Cheers, Steve

posted by steve @ 2:09 PM  

20061123

evidence of nonexistance

Believer: Worship the invisible pink unicorn. Atheist: Sorry, I don't believe he exists. Believer: Prove it. Atheist: Huh?? Why should *I* come up with proof? Ok, I can try: I don't see him. Believer: That is because he is invisible. Also he is pink. That is one of his divine properties. Atheist: I don't hear him. Believer: He only speak to believers. I hear him answer when I pray to him, I'm convinced of that. Atheist: Ok, here I have an infrared camera. I don't see anything. Believer: He doesn't emit heat. Atheist: Ok, I throw around flour and see if anything stick to him, or if we see any footprints appearing. Believer: Sorry, he is immaterial. Atheist: Ok, what is the difference between a totally undetectable creature and one that doesn't exist? Believer: When rain falls, the invisible pink unicorn caused it, whenever a child laughs, the IPU caused it. Also 6000 years of belief shows I am right. Atheist: ...whatever.

posted by steve @ 1:49 AM  

20061119

... and the man was parallelised 

[0019] <   freespace> | help, i got concurrency issues
[0020] <   freespace> | help, dead lock
[0020] <       Ycros> | i concurrency issue help got
Cheers, Steve

posted by steve @ 12:38 AM  

20061116

Thrice Blessed Day

  1. Centrelink people were nice and helpful.
  2. ADSL2+ migration happened today.
  3. TPG helpdesk was nice and helpful, helped me fix my internet connection settings. For the record, LLC multiplex mode, VCI 8 and VPI 35.
Cheers, Steve

posted by steve @ 1:17 PM  

20061112

A somewhat useful bash script

I am one of those weird people who like to run a full screen X11 in OS X - its just me. This means of course I run into certain problems when I need to copy-n-paste between Aqua and X11. Copying from Aqua into X11 works fine, but not the other way around. This means its extremely trouble some when I need to open a URL from IRC since I use irssi for IRC, running inside screen over ssh. And thus the following bash script was born to let me select some text, press a key combination in fluxbox and open up safari with the selection, or to perform a search on wikipedia or google. 
#!/bin/bash
MAX_LEN=32;
NON_URL_BUTTONS="google:1,wiki:2,define:3,cancel:99";
URL_BUTTONS="safari:0,cancel:99";

sel=`/Users/steve/usr/bin/xsel`;

if [ ${#sel} -eq 0 ]; then
    xmessage -buttons ok -default ok -nearmouse "Empty selection!";
    exit;
fi

hasurl=`expr "$sel" : '.*http://.*'`;
if [ $hasurl -gt 0 ]; then
    sel=${sel#*http://};
    sel=${sel%% *};
    sel="http://$sel";
    buttons=$URL_BUTTONS;
else
    buttons=$NON_URL_BUTTONS;
fi

if [ ${#sel} -gt $MAX_LEN ]; then
    label="${sel:0:$MAX_LEN}...";
else
    label=$sel;
fi

xmessage -buttons $buttons -default     `expr "$buttons" : '\(^[a-z]*\)'` -nearmouse "$label";

case $? in
    0)
        url="${sel}";
        ;;
    1)
        url="http://www.google.com/search?q=${sel}";
        ;;
    2) 
        url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${sel}";
        ;;
    3) 
        url="http://www.google.com/search?q=define:${sel}";
        ;;
    99)
        exit
        ;;
esac

url=${url// /%20};

echo "$url"
open /Applications/Safari.app/ "$url"
xsel used here is by Conrad Parker, and you may change xmessage to gmessage if that is more appealing to you. Cheers, Steve

posted by steve @ 4:57 PM