http://www.brycobat.net Things an Amateur Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About Mon, 10 May 2010 17:39:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Weight this morning: 328.6 Calories eaten: 1633 Calories burned: 2807 (!) Part of home ownership is yard ownership. We spent the day removing an old barbed wire fence and clearing brush around an old fence along the back of the property. I'm not convinced that I actually burned 2807 calories, but that's what ... http://www.brycobat.net/2010/03/20/half-the-man-day-6/ Initial weight on Monday: 335 lbs (!) Target weight: ~170 lbs (!!) Yep. It's that bad. The good news is that water weight changes pretty quickly, which makes the first few days of any diet/exercise lifestyle change nice and productive. Today's Weight: 327.4 lbs Total Lost So Far: 7.6 lbs Amount to Lose: 157.4 lbs http://www.brycobat.net/2010/03/19/the-half-the-man-project-week-1/ Got inspired by www.urbanranger.com yesterday, so I walked to work today. Took about 40 minutes, but traffic was about as favorable as I can imagine it being. Going home will be a bit more interesting, though, might take about an hour. There's an annoyingly narrow road that is both A) ... http://www.brycobat.net/2008/08/20/walking-to-work-day-1-success/ Perhaps this is a bit short-sighted of me, but it looks like we could actually make use of network shares to get to repositories on other machines. A "developers" share is already set up on our machines, and everybody knows how to get to it from project machines. If this ... http://www.brycobat.net/2008/07/09/serving-mercurial-from-windows-part-2-maybe-i-dont-have-to-after-all/ This may seem simple and/or obvious, but LightTPD for Windows can be had at http://en.wlmp-project.net/. I'm currently trying just the server package, called "LightTPD for Windows" on the downloads page. They also have a WLMP Webserver Package that has other stuff built in. I don't think I'll need MySQL and such, ... http://www.brycobat.net/2008/07/09/serving-mercurial-from-windows-part-1-finding-lighttpd/ Ok, I've drunk the distributed source code control kool-aid. I'm convinced. I want it. Unfortunately, for various reasons, if I want to use it at work right now, it has to run on Windows. That is, I need to be able to *serve* the repositories from Windows. I don't have the ... http://www.brycobat.net/2008/07/09/serving-mercurial-from-windows-part-0/ If you've been waiting (as I have) to install Linux on a machine, especially a laptop, run, don't walk, to www.ubuntu.com and give the Hardy Heron (8.04) a try. For the last 3-4 years I've been trying each release, waiting for one that would work "well enough" on my Acer Aspire ... http://www.brycobat.net/2008/06/21/well-this-is-a-pleasant-surprise/ If you're trying to modify app.config files for a .Net app from a nant build script using the <xmlpoke> task, the namespace you need to use switches part-way through. If you've set prefix "x" as "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" in the namespaces, then a full path for assembly redirection may include the following: /configuration/runtime/x:assemblyBinding/x:dependentAssembly/... Note ... http://www.brycobat.net/2008/02/28/outrageous-silliness-or-silly-outrage/ Partially in honor of Knuth's 70th birthday and partially because it's on my ever-expanding list of Things I Want To Do: I'm starting my journey through The Art of Computer Programming today. I post this not to convey useful information, but to hopefully invoke the psychology behind stating something publicly in ... http://www.brycobat.net/2008/01/11/and-so-it-begins/ One of my goals is to become fluent in Spanish to the point where I can carry on a conversation. To that end, I need to be able to type various accented characters using a Dvorak layout. Here's the setup I'm using: * Dvorak International Alternate layout from http://keyboards.jargon-file.org/, the one ... http://www.brycobat.net/2008/01/10/dvorak-international-altgr-in-windows-sure/