Category: general (Page 26 of 30)

Added some Blosxom plug-ins: the calendar on the right column, and the see more feature.

This is just to test the seemore feature.

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:

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).

Don’t really care that much. Don’t listen to the news anymore. But I know enough to know that this is brilliant commentary from Dork (via Tiny Revolution).

An interesting take on the “myth of library employment shortage.”

Here’s the local listing for library jobs. I don’t know the local graduation rate, but I would guess it’s upwards of 30+ a year. You can do the math.