Posted in software on January 30th, 2005 No Comments »
I finally sat down to set up Postfix to allow people outside my firewall to send mail using my SMTP server. It was a mildly annoying task, but not too troublesome. Here are my notes on how it worked, in case anyone needs a crib sheet.
First of all, my mail server runs Fedora [...]
Posted in software on January 28th, 2005 No Comments »
It was amusing to come across Google’s announcement of searchable video subtitles the other day. I thought of this applying this idea to a set-top box when I was at Rearden Steel; no, I’m sorry, Moxi; er, make that Digeo.
Unfortunately, the CEO was too busy driving the company into the ground at the time [...]
Posted in reading on January 27th, 2005 No Comments »
I’m trying to slog through Jaynes’s Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. It’s a refreshing change to read a book where I spend a good portion of the time clutching my head, feeling hopelessly stupid.
This is no fault of the book itself; it’s wonderfully written, and would probably make perfect sense to any reasonably [...]
Posted in reading on January 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
I have just finished reading John Gribbin’s The Scientists, which is a wonderful book on the history of Western science, from the era of Copernicus to the present. The style of the book is biographical, avoiding deep treatment of discoveries in favour of talking about the contributions of individuals. Gribbin enlivens his story [...]
Posted in music on January 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
How much better it is to be patient, and visit Aquarius, than to give into the desire for a quick fix and waste time at Borders or some other soulless chain.
I pulled my occasional largely-unplanned-trip-to-the-record-store trick on Thursday. Oh, it was good. A mediocre, rushed trip to Aquarius is enormously more satisfying than [...]