The Intersect

In response to Chuck’s season finale, last week I registered OrionIsNotDead.com and I have finished the site and put it live.

I have a file lying around with instructions for getting around some OpenSolaris issues I’ve ran into lately, they may prove useful to others.
ld: fatal: file /opt/sunstudio12.1/prod/lib/crti.o: section .rela.annotate has invalid type [ SHT_RELA ]
ld is trying to do 64-bit linking on a non-64 bit system, do export LD_NOEXEC_64=1 and retry the compile.
readline warning turning [...]

I switched to Ubuntu around about April last year, migrating from Debian (and a little bit of Windows). Too many brain-dead decisions* by Canonical since then mean I am looking for a new OS.
I’ve used a number of different systems while testing Rakudo and while choice is a Good ThingTM it is also making this [...]

Much the same as one upgraded from Vista to XP, I upgrade from Karmic to Jaunty today. The workarounds and hacks to fix everything that Just WorkedTM on Jaunty was too much — such as the DNS problem — everything I have tried to far resulted in working DNS but very slow internet, while in [...]

(alternative title: Too Much Time on My Hands, which goes rather nicely with my last Perl 6 post).
So, in the beginning there was lolcats, then there was lolcode, then there was lolsql (jnthn even wrote a parser for it!) and then I took the joke too far and started lolsh, the lol Shell, in Perl [...]

So a company that routinely removes functionality from their operating system, to avoid confusing their poor, helpless users with too many checkboxes and features, ships a release with broken DNS resolving?
I think, from an end-user point-of-view, “not breaking the internet” should be a lot higher up in the scale than helping out people that “don’t [...]

(Sorry for the bad pun).
One of the limitations of Mubot is that if karma is altered multiple times in a message, only the first alteration is actually made. For example, if someone says: John++ Cameron++ Cromartie– Mubot only alters John’s karma (lambdabot would alter all three).
So after I had made the change to fix it, [...]

I have always liked bots, I have written a few MediaWiki bots in other languages and the first non-trivial Perl 6 I wrote was my own Perl 6 MediaWiki bot framework (still not ready for any live-wiki editing yet). There just seems to be something about writing a program that imitates human behaviour (such as [...]

A while back I bought quite an old box (a Compaq Evo) to use as a test system. This weekend I took a shot at getting OpenSolaris running on it, as the first step in my plan to move to OSOL from Ubuntu. Everything worked fine except networking. Fortunately, OSOL has one of the best [...]

Six months after the drama there is still no viable alternative to NoScript.
Back in May, there was commotion after the Firefox Addon NoScript changed AdBlock Plus to display ads on the NoScript website. The code which accomplished this was obfuscated and the user was not warned that this would happen. At the same time people [...]