January 2009

There might be a God

12 Jan 2009

I don't know how homogeneous the atheist collective is, but among the religious it seems as if only the dolts band together against something. The ‘no God’ campaign reveals that there may be such sheep-like idiocy even among atheists.

Ok: there is no current evidence that there is a God.

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Attention is for the inattentive

17 Jan 2009

Posted by luciferous

Unsolicited messages on Facebook lately. From strangers. Facebook tells me, “You have no mutual friends.” To that I breathe a sigh of relief.

And, then the random adds. Who are these people? Where have I been advertised? Not all unwanted, mind you. Some interesting, some head-turners, and the rest meh. But, all in all, too many. So I've replied one, or two. And on one early occasion, I decided to ask questions, a kind of initiation puzzle.

She sends an add request.

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Installing 32-bit chroot on Debian Etch

29 Jan 2009

Posted by luciferous

On systems that can address up to 32 bits of memory, pointers have to be large enough to store any address – up to 32 bits – and this makes them each cost 4 bytes. Generally, this means that 32-bit systems have 4-byte pointers whereas 64-bit systems have 8-byte pointers.

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Lunch and a skinny dip

27 Jan 2009

Posted by luciferous

Buy me lunch and in return I promise a lively, engaging discourse throughout. 'Have you no shame?' demanded the woman by the pool.
'Yes, ma'am,' I replied. 'And, no money.'
'I am referring to your naked frame.'
I examined myself treading the water. Indeed, I was naked.
'Haven't you heard?' I casually asked. 'It's called skinny dipping.'
She looked arrogant at first...
'Care to join me?'
...And then incredulous.

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Rengaya, a place of meat

27 Jan 2009

Posted by matthew

My wife had a work function this evening, so I went with two of my closest friends to Rengaya, near the station in North Sydney. My first impression when walking through the door was that it was up market but with friendly waiting staff, giving the usual Japanese greating when you come through the door. The furniture and Japanese bbq was very clean and stylish as one would expect from a place like Rengaya. They even had a decorative suit of armour on display as you come in the front door.

We ordered quite a lot of beef, and oh how delicious it was.

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tar method of recursive file copying

30 Jan 2009

Posted by luciferous

I heard that recursive copying using tar and stdin is faster than cp -R. The syntax to do so is a little awkward. Here is an example which is the equivalent of cp -R source destination:

~$ mkdir destination
~$ cd source
~/source$ tar cf - . | (cd ../destination; tar xf -)

I have created a convenient script (cpr) which uses the tar method but whose syntax is closer to the cp method. The same example as above with the script:

~$ cpr source destination

What if we want to copy just the files inside source and put them in the current director?

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Miloping

There might be a God

Attention is for the inattentive

Installing 32-bit chroot on Debian Etch

Lunch and a skinny dip

Rengaya, a place of meat

tar method of recursive file copying

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