Inklings: a tumblelog

It won’t make any difference if they don’t use their powers, and given their record to date with eircom, I’m not hopeful.

Almost ended up writing a simplistic tool for doing just this, but remembered to check if rsync could be used with other remote shells beside rsh.

An activity diagram to describe the resolution of the response status code, given various headers.

An X11 diff and merge utility that I think I’d actually put up with installing all Gnome’s scour to use. It’s nice to see something as usable as WinMerge at last. I was utterly sick of KDiff3 and its retarded merging interface.

pp is a python module which provides mechanism for parallel execution of python code on SMP (systems with multiple processors or cores) and clusters (computers connected via network).

Software development is a knowledge acquisition activity, not a manufacturing activity.

This […] is what’s wrong with the for loop: it conflates (at least) three separate kinds of operations, and focuses on a minor detail: walking over a series of (index) values.

Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

Like Quicksilver for Windows.

For future reference.

Noted for when I bring mine into work.

Karlin’s back! Resubscribed.

Noooo! There goes the best Irish group blog around.

Good advice.

An interesting way of approaching software design.

To buy.