http://www.dicianno.org/blog notes about computers and lifestyle Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:55:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had a small issue getting vmware tools from VMware 2.0 beta 1 working under OpenSolaris 2008.05. I don't know if it's an issue in previous versions of either software. First, when installing OpenSolaris 2008.05, choose VMware setup options for "Solaris", and either 32-bit or 64-bit depending on your preference. ... http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2008/06/16/vmware-fusion-20-beta-1-tools-and-opensolaris-200805/ So, pretend you have: a new Mac laptop with a fast hard drive, but one that is smaller than all the data you need to backup A backup hard drive you've used on Windows and Linux, but is formatted NTFS, and is much larger than your new laptop's HD You have files named ... http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2008/06/11/tar-backup-stupidity-and-limited-space/ What follows are some choice quotes from the Al Roney show were Wafaa Bilal and Robert Mirch talked about Wafaa's art piece and Mirch's planned protest. I've decided not to include caller's comments at this point. They deserve to be highlighted in an entirely different fashion. You can get ... http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2008/03/27/quotes-from-the-al-roney-show-wgy-810am-robert-mirch-v-wafaa-bilal/ This is the latest in a horribly ridiculous sequence of events that started at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institue in Troy, NY, and spread into the greater City at large. Wafaa Bilal's other recent art piece was blogged about at BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/11/shoot-a-real-live-ir.html Order of events over the last week. Sorry, I need to ... http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2008/03/11/city-of-troy-ny-joins-in-censorship-of-american-iraqi-artist/ Recently there was written an article in the Metroland (Albany's local alt paper) cataloging the Troy Night Out / dance party / social scene that goodship (a local collective of persons) puts on. Specifically, Kevin Luddy, Jason Steven Murphy, and Ryan Jenkins rock the music / dance / ... http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2008/01/21/weird-goodship-hating-flier/ For some reason, the Gentoo install of erlang put the man pages into man sections that ended in "erl". For example, instead a directory named man3 for the 3rd man page section, it's man3erl. I wrote a quick alias erlman that only searches these erlang man page sections. ~/.bashrc alias erlman="man -S ... http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2007/11/27/erlang-2/ ... it hasn't crashed yet. Honestly, I don't think much more need be said. Programs run; the stuff I need to do any work I have runs. But overall, this isn't the Windows I remember: crashing at least once a day, and always giving me that "omg, I'd better ... http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2007/11/07/a-week-long-summary-of-my-experience-with-vista/ oh, those silly designers and their ad campaigns http://www.id29.com/how ... but really, the campaign is kind of funny http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2007/09/20/id29-how-to-be-a-better-client/ My journey into the world of Erlang is progressing nicely. I'm really excited by the possibilities the language offers. I wanted to get more perspective on functional programming by learning another functional language as well. Since my forays into LISP over the years never amounted to much, I decided ... http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2007/08/17/functional-programming-frenzy/ On pages 29-30 of "Programming Erlang" by Joe Armstrong, the author goes over character strings. Erlang uses Latin-1 as it's character set. At first, Terminal.app wasn't showing the non-US / ASCII characters. There's a two-step process to solve this: Terminal->Window Settings...->Display->"Character Set Encoding" set to "Western (ISO Latin 1)" Set the ... http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2007/08/04/terminalapp-v-erlang-and-latin-1-characters/