Added some Blosxom plug-ins: the calendar on the right column, and the see more feature.
This is just to test the seemore feature.
an eddy in the bitstream
Author: Peter Karman (Page 68 of 76)
Maker of lunches.
Teller of stories.
Singer of songs.
Crafter of code.
Kicker of darkness.
Lemur Project is an information retrieval development library.
How to build Lemur 3.1 for OS X (10.3.9)
See http://www.lemurproject.org/phorum/read.php?11,840
The note about “copy Apple’s config.guess from /sw” is ambiguous. What I did was create a shell script that does:
#!/bin/sh echo 'powerpc-apple-aux' exit
and then make all the src modifications as indicated in the URL above.
Tip: this one-liner will updated the include paths in the src files:
grep -r 'include ' * | \ grep 'indri/Parameters' | \ perl -n -e 's/:.*//;print' | \ xargs perl -pi.orig -e \ 's,indri/Parameters.hpp,indri/IndriParameters.hpp,'
Spurious errors about '-static: no such option' from the g++ compiler can be ignored, or might try --disabled-shared option to configure.
I did not know this:
The names `big-endian’ and `little-endian’ are comic references to the classic “Gulliver’s Travels” (via the paper “On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace” by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, April 1, 1980) and the egg-eating habits of the Lilliputians.
From the perlfunc man page discussion of the pack() function.
Endian-ness is one of those esoteric (or not) computer subjects that makes the internet work (or not). Basically, do you (or more accurately, your computer) count from left-to-right, or right-to-left. Little endian is left-to-right (1234) and big-endian right-to-left (4321).
Just finished racing through Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, three novels set in the 17th century. As early modern European history was my undergrad major, and technology my current occupation, this series was a real treat (which can explain how I finished 3000 pages in 3 weeks).
Barbary Corsair pirates, the birth of the commodities markets, the debate over the origins of the calculus, defenestrations of all kinds. What a riot.
I liked William Dalrymple’s From the Holy Mountain so much that I convinced my book club to try another of his travel books.
The short review: it’s not as good as Mountain but still worth a read. This is his first book, for which he became (justifiably) famous while still an undergrad. It feels a little “green” compared to Mountain — I’m chalking that up to Dalrymple’s relative youth and it being his first book. I hear traces of what will become excellent writing 10 years later.
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