A boy, a blog, and stuff

Google Android is pretty super easy

2009-06-24T17:08:00.000-07:00

I've been messing around with my new toy: a HTC Magic cellphone running Google Android. I was lucky enough to get one for free from Google IO last month and have just finally gotten around to actually writing a little app for it. I haven't done anything terribly difficult yet, but from what I have already accomplished in an hour, I can say it has been a breeze.

One thing that wasn't quite as trivial as I was hoping was making an alert dialog box to do some simple runtime debugging. Understanding how it works now makes this much easier, but here is my one-liner:

(new AlertDialog.Builder(this)).setTitle("An Alert")
.setMessage("Some message")
.create().show();

the "this" in my case is my current Activity which is the default class you make when you start a project which extends the necessary Context class (not directly though). This was inside an event handler (which was implemented as an anonymous inner class) so I had to make a named reference to "this" inside the Activity scope so it was the Activities scoped "this" instead of the anonymous inner class's.

Here is the whole relevant code:


package com.gleenn.android;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class GlennsFirstApp extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.Button01);
        final GlennsFirstApp gfa = this;
        button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String twitterUsername = ((EditText)findViewById(R.id.EditText_twitter_username)).getText().toString();
                String twitterPassword = ((EditText)findViewById(R.id.EditText_twitter_password)).getText().toString();
                String statusMessage = ((EditText)findViewById(R.id.EditText_status_message)).getText().toString();
                (new AlertDialog.Builder(gfa)).setTitle("Test")
                    .setMessage(twitterUsername + " " + twitterPassword + " " + statusMessage)
                    .create().show();
            }
        });
    }
}

I <3 MGMT and Finding MWE's

2009-05-17T01:58:00.000-07:00

I'm a horrible horrible sell-out and I love this friggin MGMT video. It is so hipsterish and popular, but damn its catchy and the student who made the video did a great, albeit strange, job. I'm also enjoying Electric Feel by them too. Both the vids are definitely helping stay awake and focus on my Python program for my linguistics class.

In my ling class we are writing a program to search for MWE's, or Multi Word Expressions like "kick the bucket" or "stay on track" etc. Turns out it is really hard to get a computer to find these, but ask anyone on the street for some expressions and they'll list a good boat-load out easily. All of it is really fun though, I just wish I had more time to use MapReduce to make my program be able to divide up the work of scanning the corpus of words much faster, as Google does. Maybe in my next lifetime, or at a job in my future... ;).

Here is "Electric Feel" to continue the hipster trend:

San Jose's Death Star Hall

2009-04-03T13:26:00.000-07:00

What? It was just too tempting with that ominous looking City Hall structure. Maybe we'll blow up Santa Clara now and thousands of rich SCU students and all the soon-to-be-unemployed Sun workers will be put out of their misery.

Glenn the River Dancer

2009-03-17T18:30:00.000-07:00

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Some useful stuff I've been learning

2008-12-06T00:46:00.001-08:00

## Hadoop Ubuntu Setup Configuration Commands ##

# make the computer not boot graphically
sudo chmod -x /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm

# the *BAD* way to forcefully remove scrollkeeper
sudo dpkg --force-all --remove scrollkeeper --purge

# less bad way to stop scrollkeeper
sudo mv /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update.real
sudo ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update
sudo find /var/lib/scrollkeeper/ -name \*.xml -type f -exec rm -f '{}' \;
sudo dpkg-divert --local --divert /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update.real --add /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update

# make sure autocomplete in bash works
# uncomment lines in /etc/bash.bashrc that talks about enabling autocomplete...

# install openssh-server
sudo aptitude install openssh-server

# Setup Apt-cache
sudo aptitude install apt-cacher
config file for startup (AUTOSTART is set to 1):
/etc/default/apt-cacher
= or =
just start the apt-cacher service:

config file for general
/etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf
edit location of cache_dir

to config a client:
create file /etc/apt/apt.conf and put this inside
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://:3142/apt-cacher/";

# turbo ssh logins
#copy the *client's* ssh key in .ssh/id_rsa.pub to all the hosts
scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub some_host:
ssh some_host
cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys2

# execute something on a bunch of hosts
for n in `cat slaves | grep -v "#"`; do ssh $n "hostname;uptime" ; done

or make a shell script out of it
#!/usr/bin/env bash
HADOOP_HOME="/home/glenn/hadoop"
for s in `cat $HADOOP_HOME/conf/slaves`;
do
echo $s;
ssh $s "$*";
echo;
done
OR
for s in `cat $HADOOP_HOME/conf/slaves`;
do
echo $s;
($*); # executes all arguments together as one string
echo;
done

# make certain sudoers not need a password
if you want sudo without prompt password,
edit /etc/sudoers
and add:
ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
save and that's it.
the username is the user you want to give doing sudo without password.

glenn ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

# fork bomb ;)
:(){ :|:& };:

# check daemons are running
glenn@rufus:~/hadoop$ jps
14593 Jps
14422 SecondaryNameNode
14554 TaskTracker
7867 JobTracker
14332 DataNode

# make it so SVN ignores stuff

[TargetFolder]>svn propset svn:ignore bin .
or for multiple files/folders just quote and actually hit enter between entries
[TargetFolder]>svn propset svn:ignore "bin
dist" .
# make sure the folder or file is not already commited, aka delete it if it is already there,
# and make sure you actually delete or move it before ignoring it

# import some files/folders into an svn repo without checking it out first
# make sure to note that the *contents* and not the actual folder will be put into .../dev/thesis
svn import foldername svn+ssh://someurl/home/svn/repos/dev/thesis

# allow X11 ssh forwarding
# go to /etc/ssh/ssh_config and make sure "X11Forwarding yes" is in there on the client
# go to /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure "X11...Forwarding yes" is in there on the server

ssh -X glenn@rufus /usr/bin/xeyes

Tim and Dave Actually Both My Dads

2008-08-31T03:42:00.000-07:00

So my two friends, Tim and Dave, decided it would be funny to pretend they were my father. Now, the problem with this little joke on Facebook is when I post an image of both of their "Friend Detail Requests" showing them both as my father. That would definitely not imply that they were both simultaneously my dad. Definitely not. I mean, it would be ok and this world has lots of room for people like them.

Sublime Santeria Cover by Terra Naomi

2008-08-28T03:37:00.000-07:00

I really like this cover. My girlfriend turned me on to it and its been keeping me company while I do some random programming. I'm working on a recursive reflection program for fun and a distinct lack of anything else. Here is the ridiculous code for anyone curious...


import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.HashSet;

public class RecursiveReflection {
  public static void main(final String[] args)
      throws ClassNotFoundException {
    if(args.length != 1) {
      System.out.println("Usage: java " +
        "RecursiveReflection ");
      System.out.println("for example, " +
        "try java.lang.String (it must be fully qualified)");
    } else {
      try {
        recurseClassFields(Class.forName(args[0]));
      }
      catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
        System.out.println(cnfe);
      }
    }
  }
  
  /* Something I just threw in ;) */
  @SuppressWarnings(value="unused")
  public static void recurseSuperclass(Class klass)
      throws ClassNotFoundException {
    if(klass == null) return;
    System.out.println(klass.getName());
    recurseSuperclass(klass.getSuperclass());
  }
  
  public static void recurseClassFields(Class klass)
      throws ClassNotFoundException {
    recurseClassFields(klass, "", new HashSet());
  }
  
  private static void recurseClassFields(Class klass, String indent,
      HashSet existingClasses)
      throws ClassNotFoundException {
    
    if(existingClasses.contains(klass.getName())) return;
    else existingClasses.add(klass.getName());
        
    System.out.print(indent + klass.getSimpleName());
    
    Field[] fields = klass.getDeclaredFields();
    
    System.out.print(" : " + fields.length +
        " members, ");
    System.out.print(" : " + klass.getMethods().length +
        " methods ");
    System.out.println();
        
    for(Field field : fields) {
      Class fieldClass = field.getType();
      if(fieldClass.isPrimitive()) continue;
      recurseClassFields(fieldClass, indent + "  ",
      existingClasses);
    }
  }
}

City and Police Misconduct

2008-05-04T01:30:00.000-07:00

As many of San Jose's residents know, Cinco de Mayo (5th of May) is a time of great celebration. As alcohol tends to be consumed in large quantities during such occasions, the city of San Jose went to great measures this year to prevent drunk driving and other bad behavior. They did this with check points throughout the downtown area. Police blocked nearly every other street near my neighborhood in order to focus drivers down certain streets and I presume make it difficult for drivers to escape these check points.

As I drove home Friday night with my girlfriend, I dropped her off at her car in the Fourth Street Garage. Normally, I would exit the garage onto Fourth Street, and make a very quick right onto San Salvador, loop around, and be home within 1 to 2 minutes. Not this Friday though.

Upon exiting this during this hectic time, I met with every single street being rigorously blocked by multiple police cars, lights blazing, and orange street cones. As many other streets were blocked, a flood of cars were pouring down Fourth Street's multiple lanes making it very difficult to change lanes, park, or do anything ad hoc. I continued driving thinking at some point they will *have* to let me turn, the won't make me enter the freeway, that would be ridiculous as I literally only have to turn around 2 blocks to get home...

Let's just say I was very happy no one was in the car to hear my screaming.

Now as I entered I-280N, I though "Alright, I'll just take Highway 87 North to Julian, then home, no big deal." Nope. Not tonight. Highway 87 North was blocked for "construction" which I presume was also just a way to further funnel the people to controlled streets. At this point though, I have little experience or knowledge of 87 South, but there was no looking back. I proceeded up a while, made an illegal U-turn or 2 I'm sure, and wound up barely finding my way back to San Fernando. There I though I could pass Fourth Street and make my way down to Market, but without fail, all traffic was being directed to make a left onto Fourth, which would make an excellent repeat to my past 35 minute round trip through foreign territory.

After hitting a stop light, I pulled over behind a police car and attempted to wipe off my frustration before I attempted talking to the officer. I must say this officer deserves credit for being humane, civil, and understanding; quite contrary to how the next day's officer would behave. He told me to simply continue down Fourth Street, then stop and tell the closest police officer to let me through. At least I should see an end to this now.

After following his instructions, I again pulled over near the closest blocked street that would get me home and beckoned an officer. At this point, I asked the officer to please let me through. He responded by requiring some form of identification that would establish my residence. To make things worse, my driver's license has my permanent address on it, not my current address.

I think this was thoroughly ridiculous as the city never contacted me about the oncoming trouble that all residents around me were about to have with getting home. Did they really think that sending people on lengthy drives and being forced onto freeways is acceptable? And to assume that we must prove residence to be able to get home is also totally outrageous. What if my mother was trying to visit me? Is she somehow suppose to prove that her son lives here?

The City of San Jose was very irresponsible for allowing such activities to take place, especially

At least I made it home that night.

===========

This part of the story is the thing that really makes my blood boil. I can feel my hair standing on end even as I type it.

So tonight, I was driving home and ended up in a similar predicament: many exits and streets were blocked off making it very difficult to get home. After passing 3 exits, I ended up stopped on Taylor Street. A long train of cars waited on this exit. From my lesson from the previous night, I learned you must ask if you are to return home. Following this lesson, I pulled through some orange markers, again, up behind a police car, but was greeted with polar opposite response.

An officer briskly walked up to me and I began asking how to return home. He very harshly asked where I lived, and I responded. He told me very rough directions to which I asked he repeat, especially since I again have little experience with the area I ended up in. He looked noticeable annoyed and somehow this ended up at a point where I asked as to why the streets were in the condition they were in. Big No-No.

With this officer, ya know, the ones who are suppose to serve and protect (they have it all over their cars anyway), I was told something very close to this:

"Never ask a policeman why, I told you your directions, and you just get back in your car and go. Do you want me to write you a $300 ticket? You are in my comb (??) and I can certainly do that for you. Never ask why. NEVER."

I really have to un-wrench my teeth as I continue here.

This police officer crossed what I believe are my civil rights in so many critical ways that I am appalled he has a job. I was just a guy asking a simple, earnest question while very distressed and just trying to get home. This question caused me to be very disrespected by that officer, unduly threatened with questionable fines, and sternly slapped with the statement that we should never question authority. Ever.

It does not take a history book to remember that authority must always be questioned. Countless events in our nation's history, as well as others', demanded that people rise up and challenge the supposed authority. The irony is this weekend's celebration which lead to these events was celebrating Mexico's victory against Spain's control in the New World. The United States' fore-fathers would definitely have agreed that challenging authority and asking "Why?" is fundamental to a free and democratic society.

Having an officer of the law expect complacency in such an extreme and fear-inducing manner threatens everyones' liberty, including himself. I only wish he does not harm more free people by scaring them into the believe that government, or any authority, must have a large degree of transparency and accountability to the people they serve. The government should fear the people, not the other way around.

If you have *any* comments or related stories, *please* email me with them at gleenn at gmail dot com.

Here are various related quotes.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

YAGHQ (Yet Another Google Homepage Quote)

2008-04-06T05:36:00.000-07:00

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Stephen King

Ruby to the FTP Rescue

2008-03-04T04:19:00.000-08:00

If there is any protocol I loath more, it is the horrible FTP. I've *never* found a good client that can deal with large and/or many file uploads. I've tried GUI clients, command-line clients, clients on Linux, and clients on Windows and every single one of them was just about enough to make me scream trying to transfer a large number of pictures to my web server.

Between cutoff transmissions, light-weight GUIs, flat-out-lieing interfaces, and other random errors, most of the clients I tried could not even resume an upload to save their life. As FTP was designed back at the dawn of computing, it just was not designed to do as large transfers as I need, and most of the clients available today are just not capable of handling a few thousand megabyte-sized images. Pretty sad.

Then along came a lightbulb in Glenn's head: use Ruby's builtin FTP functionality. After about an half hour of messing with it, I wrote a program that could upload a file to my server. Then, Ruby's welcoming API made it almost trivial to check to see if a file the program was trying to upload was already on the server. Piece of cake. Then I realized that there was a problem if a file was partially-transferred as is the case when a connection drops. If I retried using my program, it would continue to the next image, leaving a half-uploaded image in its wake. Well, with a little more reading, I found that you could trivially turn on file-resume support. Could it get better? Nope.

Check out my code and feel free to steal it for your own devious purposes:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'net/ftp'

hostname = 'ftp.hostname.com'
username = 'glenn'
password = 'topsecret'

# your filesystem source directory, whichmust end with slash
sourcedir = '/home/glenn/camera/canon/'
# destination directory on ftp server
destdir = '/canon'

Net::FTP.open(hostname) do |ftp|
    ftp.login(user=username,password=password)
    ftp.passive = true
    ftp.resume = true
    ftp.chdir(destdir)
    filelist = ftp.nlst
    Dir::open(sourcedir) do |dir|
        dir.each do |file|
            fullpath = sourcedir + file
            if FileTest::file?(fullpath) #and !filelist.member?(file) then
                print "Transfering " + file + "\n"
                ftp.putbinaryfile(fullpath)
            end
        end
    end
end

A syntax-highlighted version (Blogspot is giving me all kinds of trouble trying to paste this in.
The actual Ruby file

Good Ol' Nietzsche

2008-03-01T17:01:00.000-08:00

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

More Stolen Atheism Quotes from my Google Homepage

2008-02-16T22:50:00.000-08:00

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.
- Scott Adams

I totally lol'd at the "setup a wireless network". At first you really picture some crazy-eyed terrorist figure. Then you picture him next to some nerdy looking figure in a plaid shirt, wireless router and spare ethernet cable in hand.

Wadsyaname

2008-02-12T22:02:00.000-08:00

Is it so wrong that I want to be a gangsta? If anyone knows how to black-out teeth, let me know.

Horstmann's Quote of the Day

2008-02-07T12:19:00.000-08:00

Using ODBC is about as easy as eating soup with a fork.

--Professor Horstmann

Snowflakes

2008-02-06T23:59:00.000-08:00

I know its getting a little late in the season, but who could resist making a paper snowflake? Seriously, is there any better waste of time instead of doing homework? Didn't think so...

http://www.snowflakes.info/

My New Hero from Portal

2008-02-03T18:46:00.000-08:00

There's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'till you run out of cake.

-GLaDOS

Hidden Cake Recipe
GLaDOS's MySpace page
http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/GLaDOS

Some Atheist Propaganda

2008-02-03T16:50:00.000-08:00

I've never came to any strong conclusion as to the existence of a God. As for my beliefs on organized religion, that's another story. Here are some pretty pointed quotes from some influential people:

"It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science." [Darwin]

"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." [Voltaire]

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism." [Einstein]

"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." [Nietzsche]

"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living … our dread of coming to an end." [Edison]

"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." [Lincoln]

"Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?" [Arthur C. Clarke]

"Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies." [Thomas Jefferson]

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile." [Kurt Vonnegut]

"Religion is based . . . mainly on fear . . . fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. . . . My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race." [Bertrand Russell]

My Schedule [for real this time]

2008-01-29T15:52:00.001-08:00

This is my revised schedule. Turns out I am probably going to take Professor Horstmann's CS252 class on Advanced Programming Languages. I went for the first time today (I missed the first day) and it was pretty interesting. Should be fun learning more about Lambda Calculus and other advanced topics like continuations and about languages like Groovy, Scheme, and Scala (I'm already a big fan of Ruby).

My Schedule for Spring

2008-01-17T13:23:00.000-08:00

Oh Modern Video Games...

2008-01-09T04:02:00.000-08:00

Java Disclaimer: Java Cannot Operate Weapons or Aircraft

2008-01-07T21:40:00.000-08:00

My friend Tim found this while installing Java on his computer.

13. NOTE ON JAVA SUPPORT. THE SOFTWARE MAY CONTAIN SUPPORT FOR
PROGRAMS WRITTEN IN JAVA. JAVA TECHNOLOGY IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND IS
NOT DESIGNED, MANUFACTURED, OR INTENDED FOR USE OR RESALE AS ONLINE
CONTROL EQUIPMENT IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE
PERFORMANCE, SUCH AS IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT
NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, DIRECT LIFE
SUPPORT MACHINES, OR WEAPONS SYSTEMS, IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF JAVA
TECHNOLOGY COULD LEAD DIRECTLY TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE
PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE. Sun Microsystems, Inc. has
contractually obligated Microsoft to make this disclaimer.

I guess Sun doesn't want to be liable when Java starts garbage collecting on a missile guidance system at a bad moment ;).

Oh Silly French Ravers

2007-12-27T15:40:00.001-08:00

I found this on this page with a bunch of other intriguing French videos.

Oh sex education

2007-12-13T04:16:00.000-08:00

Good times. I stole this from JWZ's livejournal account. He's my hero.

Theocratic conversations over AIM...

2007-12-10T00:23:00.000-08:00

Glenn: there is a good and bad to everything, right?
Yen: god is all good.
Glenn: then why does he let us suffer?
Yen: cuz he forgot...

Getting JOGL to work on Linux (the really abbreviated version)

2007-12-01T03:23:00.000-08:00

“’If you please--draw me a sheep . . .’
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. Absurd as it might seem to me, a thousand miles from any human habitation and in danger of death, I took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountain-pen. But then I remembered how my studies had been concentrated on geography, history, arithmetic and grammar, and I told the little chap (a little crossly, too) that I did not know how to draw. He answered me:
‘That doesn't matter. Draw me a sheep . . .’”

-Le Petit Prince

Setup JOGL

Download the JOGL zip file for Linux.

Next, make a folder named "jogl" in your home directory.

Uncompress the zip file into this directory. It should look like this now:

glenn@rufus:~$ ls jogl/
gluegen-rt.jar
libgluegen-rt.so
libjogl_cg.so
jogl.jar
libjogl_awt.so
libjogl.so

Now add these lines to your ".bashrc" file OR append the paths to existing lines that contain the same variable names (so if you already had a line with CLASSPATH, then append ":~jogl").

export CLASSPATH=.:~/jogl/jogl.jar:~/jogl/gluegen-rt.jar
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/jogl

Working example coming soon (hopefully!)...

What can I say, it's just really cute....

2007-11-28T01:53:00.000-08:00

I'm such a newb for Travis Barker's Remix of "Crank That"

2007-11-26T16:30:00.000-08:00

He just gets so into it that it makes me want to be a drummer.

On a related note, I finally got my new Turtle Beach Montego DDL sound card to work with multiple programs simultaneously after some tinkering and a helpful Ubuntu Forum post. Took some effort I'm sad to say, but I'm very pleased with the companies open support for Linux. ;)

Linux Sound Card Woes (Buy Turtle Beach and not Creative!)

2007-11-26T12:33:00.000-08:00

Creative sound card boxes are just about the worst advertising ever and have the least useful information on them possible.

Being a loyal Creative customer, I needed a sound card and was browsing through all their sound cards. However all of the boxes did not mention Linux support at all. Not uncommon, yet still incredibly annoying because some cards are known to work very well in Linux, and some, like the X-FI are known not to (at least Creative *should* know this and therefore should put it on the box). Luckily I did my own research, and it took quite a bit, to realize that I would not be taking home an X-FI card because of non-existant support for my sole operating system, Linux.

So I realize now I cannot get an X-FI card. This limited my options quite a bit. So now I start browsing around the Creative cards for things non-X-FI. The only real alternative that I found was the Audigy SE for about 30 bucks. After reading the box though, the only information you can ever really glean from it is that it is 24-bit this and 96kHz that, but these modes are only in certain circumstances, etc. It NEVER mentions what makes it a SE compared to a non-SE version of the Audigy. Sometimes, the only way to see what is *missing* from a card, is to look at another more expensive card and see what it *has* and check to see if that feature is also listed on the SE version. Their psuedo-informative graphs are totally annoying as well, as they convey absolutely nothing scientific or of real-world value.

So basically, it is very difficult to even compare cards from the same manufacturer, let alone with other manufacturers.

So I finally go with an Audigy SE as it is relatively inexpensive and it says wonderful things with big numbers and all in bright, happy colors.

Much to my dismay, this card works in Linux, but the critical fact that it does NOT have a hardware mixer means that one, and only one, program may use the sound card at a time. This means that if I am listening to music, and *any* other program needs to make a sound, for instance an chat messenger or an online video, cannot. You must stop the music from playing, and sometimes even close the program, before you can use the other program. Obviously this is totally useless for things like alert sounds.

I would have been alright with having this hardware-limited card at a cheap price if I somehow could have known *in advance of my purchase* what I was getting myself into. So again, NO WHERE is it mentioned this fairly critical fact that SE means "cheap version" which means no hardware mixer and no multiple-program sound, at least under Linux.

This makes me pretty angry. Creative, and other card manufacturers need to step away from all the marketing hype and put *informative* and *easily comparable* data on their boxes so the consumer can make educated choices and not be forced to return products that don't suit their needs.

So I just bought a Turtle Beach Montego DDL and am enjoying it immensly! I particularly liked the fact that they explicitly mention Linux support on their website, and even specifically Ubuntu, my Linux distribution of choice.

Yen took my picture a lot and slapped 'em together

2007-11-25T22:15:00.000-08:00

Makes it pretty easy to create freakish stop-animation shows. Enjoy.

Jeff's Mom?

2007-11-14T00:06:00.001-08:00

My roommates are my hos. Get over it.

A very interesting perspective on student life

2007-11-09T00:51:00.000-08:00

What can I say, I steal all my quotes from Google Homepage

2007-11-01T02:51:00.000-07:00

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Butler

Something I found while researching...

2007-10-27T14:45:00.000-07:00

"Adventure is as humdrum as routine unless one assimilates it...[and]...relates it to a central core that grows within and gives it...significance. ...It is not what one does, but what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial. ...It is the artist, the knower, the sayer...who takes the raw lump of ore we find in nature, smelts it, refines it...and stamps it into coins we can pass from hand to hand..."

-Lewis Mumford

My new favorite band is....

2007-04-09T02:24:00.000-07:00

the Silversun Pickups. I particularly am a sell-out for what is probably their most popular song: Lazy Eye. It is good music.

Butler: good with companies, not with women

2007-03-30T21:59:00.001-07:00

(09:57:15 PM) Butler: have i mentioned lately that i've gotten an offer from every company i have interviewed with
(09:58:21 PM) Butler: actually every woman i have applied to has rejected me
(09:58:25 PM) me: LOL
(09:58:36 PM) Butler: butler: good with companies, not with women

Thomas Jefferson quote from Google's homepage

2007-03-27T02:08:00.000-07:00

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson

Novell spoof commercial of Apple spoof commercial

2007-03-24T13:31:00.000-07:00

http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/03/novell_launches.html

It's really funny because the Apple commercials were totally denying Linux's place in the world... so Novell decided to step up in a imitative yet creative way. I like it because Linux is a chick... what can I say?

Enjoy, the second one is even better than the first.

SQL is fun for the whole family

2007-03-23T03:18:00.000-07:00

five-gram: a string containing 5 "words"...

you get a dollar if you can explain to me what this does, dinner if you are a girl ;)

select f1.g1,f1.g2,f1.g3,f1.g4,f1.g5,f2.g5 from five_gram as f1, five_gram as f2 where f1.g2=f2.g1 and f1.g3=f2.g2 and f1.g4=f2.g3 and f1.g5=f2.g4 limit 5;

America's Machine...

2007-03-11T17:47:00.000-07:00

Taken from Slashdot:

"What is it about train system efficiency that inculcates a preference for or against fascism in the general populace?"

This might sound kind of silly, but hear me out. I think it's a question of whether society as a whole prioritizes the lives of individuals, or the regular functioning of societal institutions.

Will the train wait for you if you are running two minutes late? Or will it leave exactly on time? What if you are going to visit your sick mother in the hospital? Will the conductor let you on if you run up at the last minute, after the doors have closed, tears in your eyes?

Are the people in charge sticklers for the rules, or will the allow an except for your particular life story and situation? Are we cogs in the machine, to be cast off in the ditch if we are unable to keep up with the machinations of the city? Are we here to support the institutions, or are the institutions here to make our lives easier?

I grew up in the US and got used to reliable infrastructure. I have done a lot of travelling in South American since I was in college, and it has really changed my perspective. Not that I am saying that one is better (I'll get to fascism later), but just observing at this point.

I just got back from Bolivia. In La Paz, any body with a car can put a sign on their windshield and do their own taxi service. Anybody can set down a blanket on the sidewalk and start selling potatoes or trinkets to tourists. Open air markets have fresh meat rotting in the high-altitude sun, and freshly picked vegetables sitting out in the open, dirt still on them. There are no police who are going to stop you, there are no taxes to pay. There *are* registered, licensed taxis, and regular retail shops like we are used to here in the United States. However, official institutions don't have total control over every aspect of life like they do here. Here in the US, you need permission to do wipe your ass, pardon the expression. But in Bolivia, at least, informal 'institutions' exist alongside the official ones.

In La Paz, there are full-size vans that run regular routes as taxi/buses. After 5 O'clock, when people are getting off of work, they will squeeze in as many people as can fit. Everyone is just trying to get home to their families, and nobody is going to throw you off if you are just sitting one butt-cheek on the edge of a seat. I've ridden several times in crowded, swaying full-size buses over dirt roads on mountains. I'm agnostic, but I prayed an awful lot.

Now, of course, there are a lot more deaths due to safety hazards in Bolivia, in traffic and in homes. A lot of people get food poisoning. I think Bolivians are more accepting of the suffering and death in general.

Here in the US, people seem to have what I call a hysteria of action. If something bad happens to anyone , Sometime Must Be Done, so that nobody ever has to suffer ever again. If a child dies in a shooting, all guns everywhere must be registered and locked up. If somebody gets food poisoning, we must institute totally new rules and procedures about handling food. If somebody dies in a car accident, we have to put air-bags on the roofs of all new cars. If somebody dies of a rare, expensive disease, we must establish a new non-profit so that nobody ever need suffer this disease again. If something bad ever manages to happen again, it was because somebody was lazy, not doing their job, and they must be fired. America is a paradise, and if bad things happen, it's somebody's fault for not doing their job.

Written by "lawpoop". More can be found at http://lawpoop.blogspot.com/

Website optimization

2007-03-04T06:15:00.000-08:00

Man it is late. I've been working really hard to get my dad's website a better page rank so that it shows up in more search engine queries. I've learned a few things from my current job at Activo and applied them as best I can to get this home sold. I know how much effort my dad has put into this custom home for it to just sit on the market.

It would feel so awesome if I attracted a customer that bought my dad's home and found it through my website. We'll see if I can do anything about this low Google ranking though....

Shameless promotion www.libertyestatesrealty.com.

Check out some other websites that build custom homes.

Ruby 3D Array implementation

2007-02-27T04:27:00.000-08:00

# beautiful implementation of a ruby 3D array
# although I am a little irritated you can't just do it the java way and slap
# an extra pair of braces on the end and get a whole extra dimension

class Array3

    def initialize
        @store = [[[]]]
    end

    def [](a,b,c)
        if @store[a]==nil ||
            @store[a][b]==nil ||
            @store[a][b][c]==nil
            return nil
        else
            return @store[a][b][c]
        end
end

    def []=(a,b,c,x)
        @store[a] = [[]] if @store[a]==nil
        @store[a][b] = [] if @store[a][b]==nil
        @store[a][b][c] = x
    end
end

x = Array3.new

x[0,0,0] = 5
x[0,0,1] = 6
x[1,2,3] = 99

puts x[1,2,3]

# from http://www.samspublishing.com/

"The Island" quote

2007-02-21T03:48:00.000-08:00

from the movie 'the island': McCord: All right, look. I know you're new to the whole human experiences and all... but there's one universal truth and that is you never give a woman your credit card.

I totally stole this from something my friend's girlfriend posted on facebook. Sue me. And Tim, I <3 you.

Lol

2007-02-04T19:03:00.001-08:00

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

Tard?

2007-02-04T01:49:00.000-08:00

I'm Learning Ruby...

2006-09-22T01:40:00.000-07:00

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing

Alan Perlis

Bash fun?

2006-09-11T17:22:00.000-07:00

glenn@sloop:~$ man hookers?
No manual entry for hookers?

Success and Laziness, as if I was to speak...

2006-09-11T00:32:00.000-07:00

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
- Jules Renard

This little gem was from Google's personalized homepage.

Peace and Politics

2006-09-10T14:28:00.000-07:00

A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom,
but he has no means to realize it other than through violence.

-- Jean Paul Sartre

Straight from fortune on slackware

Cute kitty kat

2006-09-08T23:53:00.000-07:00

Sweet robot dance, Asian style

2006-09-04T15:51:00.000-07:00

Sexiest robot dance....yet

Freckles are sexy

2006-08-18T02:22:00.000-07:00

I recently watched the movie Code 46 which was mediocre. There was a quite audacious bit of the movie that I cannot pass posting, however:

William: Tell me something about yourself.
Wolfe: I have una cosa about freckles. I find freckles a turn on… It’s like its clothed and not clothed. There’s no freckle pornography. Women get famous for breasts and legs but not for freckles.
William: Anne of Green Gables.
Wole: I regard Anne of Green Gables as an erotic classic.

I stole the quote from this page so don't blame me for the character-name spelling.

Trip to Georgia

2006-08-17T16:01:00.000-07:00

I just recently got back from Georgia. I had a good time with my dad and stepmom hanging out and seeing what the southern state is all about. It is not nearly as hot and humid as everyone makes it out to be. I think San Jose in California was on par with the heat, too. Besides that, the surrounding nature was a nice change from my urban concrete jungle and the people were friendly.

My dad and stepmom are working hard on building some beautiful homes there. We took a bunch of photos of the nearly complete home, and some of the second home which needs some more work. They are some very beautiful homes to be sure, and you really get a bang for your buck out there in Canton, Georgia. I worked hard on my dad's new website promoting the new homes, which was a major revamp of the old site. I think it looks pretty good and wouldn't mind any critiqueing or complements.

While I was there I also took a quick drive-through tour of Georgia Tech, and after a little bit of research I found out it is one of the top engineering universities in the nation. Thusly, I threw it on the list of grad schools where I'll apply. Grad school preparation is a bear, including studying for GRE's and doing all the big applications; I've got my fingers crossed.

Top 10 worst album covers ever

2006-07-25T13:12:00.000-07:00

My friend from Santa Barbara, Bev, sent me these captions to some very awkward album covers. Here's a little taste of what inspired this top 10 list of worst album covers. Enjoy, and thanks for the laugh Bev.

George Washington was a programmer

2006-07-21T00:51:00.000-07:00

Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by
close application thereto, it is worse execute by two persons and
scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
-- George Washington, 1732-1799

And as it applies to programming:

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
-- F. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"

kinda funny

2006-07-20T00:42:00.000-07:00

Nintendo aiming to please, or subtly slap in the face?

2006-07-07T23:34:00.000-07:00

As the United State's president has recently turned 60, Nintendo mailed him a new hand-held console called the DS-Lite (Nintendo's new Gameboy with dual screens) and a copy of the game called Brain Age. The game aims at keeping people sharp with simplistic yet challenging games that target a wide array of people. The package came with a note of inspiration to aging President Bush to keep him sharp in his later years. I just can't resist the temptation that some higher-ups in the Nintendo Corporation thought that it would be funny to send our blundering President something to make him a little smarter. I am probably wrong, and I love Nintendo so I dare not smear their image, but it just makes me snicker. I also like to take the opportunites to laugh at W. when I can.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32873

My name is EVAN

2006-07-06T22:02:00.000-07:00

Evan, my new roommate, hates MySpace. This reason alone is all the motivation I needed to make my dear roommate his very own MySpace page! You should really make Evan your friend, because everybody's doing it. Make Evan your MySpace Friend or just check it out here.

Monkey Butter!

2006-07-02T02:50:00.000-07:00

Something good does come from the Fox News Station! Monkey Butter French Toast!

Basic French Toast
2 eggs or egg whites, lightly beaten
8 slices firm white or whole wheat bread
1 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup milk
2-3 teaspoons butter
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Combine eggs and milk in a pie plate; beat with a fork until well
blended. Dip bread slices into the mix to coat each side. Melt 1
teaspoon butter in a skillet over medium heat. Transfer a coated
bread slice to the hot skillet. Brown each side 2-3 minutes or until
golden brown. Continue with other slices, adding butter as needed.
Discard any leftover egg mixture. Serve immediately. Or wrap,
and place in the freezer for later use.

Note: The frozen slices can be thawed in a toaster set on
MEDIUM, in a microwave oven set on HIH for 30-45 seconds, or in
an oven set at 400F for about 10 minutes.

Traditional: French toast is yummy with a sprinkle of powdered
sugar, jam or syrup.

New: Slice them into strips and dip into monkey butter. To make
monkey butter, combine one mashed banana with 2 Tablespoons
reduced-fat peanut butter, 1 cup vanilla yogurt and 2 teaspoons
cinnamon sugar.

Linky to Monkey Butter on Wikipedia.

Shrinking Freedoms

2006-06-29T14:43:00.000-07:00

Russell Kanning and Kat Dillon protest the lack of rights they have in their hometown, which should clearly fall under Constitutional Rights. They were denied the right to peaceably assemble, the right to free speech, and were hassled repeatedly by police after they refused to be moved to a "free speech zone" during a talk by President Bush in their town. This video shows them at the court house, disputing with police officers in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Linky to:
the video
a related slashdot article
the protestors website, nhfree.com

Jennifer Aniston is teh hotness

2006-06-25T20:28:00.000-07:00

She looks good in those jeans.... but he's got his priorities straight. ;)

Thank you, Comcast

2006-06-23T02:16:00.000-07:00

You make kitty scared

2006-06-22T21:05:00.000-07:00

Don't make kitty scared, k? I really have to get my dust off my actual webserver so I can host http://eatkittens.com properly. Just you wait.

For other entertainment, check out this volley-ball flash game, it's highly entertaining. After all, Steve recommended it, so it must be alright, right?

bash.org quote

2006-06-14T03:20:00.000-07:00

The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be acapital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safetylabels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

=====

I am leaving for Santa Barbara today. Brian and his girlfriend Sam will be accompanying me to pick up some furniture from my long lost roommate, Nick. Good times. I just hope I don't go psycho watching all my old friends graduate without me. **sigh**. At some point I might get something interesting to report on, but I'll keep you posted until then ;).

--Glenn

Fond Memories...

2006-06-09T00:45:00.000-07:00

Rock-Paper-Scissors

2006-06-07T21:53:00.000-07:00

It seems these days that judges must find all sorts of unique ways to deal with issues. Nothing like a good, old game of rock-paper-scissors to settle a dispute between two rivalling lawyers.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/07/magazines/fortune/rps_fortune/

For those of you who have been living in the dark, here is a wiki on the game. And as I have totally turned this from a serious judge bash into reverence for a child's game, here are some more links that good buddy Steve sent me. Fifteen way rock-paper-scissors, and if that isn't enough, twenty-five way. The author even has some good justifications for why any one thing beats another.

Remember what the guy from Total Recall said to the hooker on Mars?

2006-05-31T03:02:00.000-07:00

It was something along the lines of "I with I had three hands so I could grab all three of your boobs at the same time..."

Well this kid can!!

In all seriousness...I hope the little tyke doesn't die for lack of enough organs he is missing. There is a news report with more info. They say it is record breaking for how complete the extra arm is as typically the extra limb is not nearly as developed and as responsive to touch. It is oddly kind of appropriately timed as that new X-Men 3 movie just came out.

Picturage.

2006-05-28T11:56:00.000-07:00

4chan.org (click Proceed on the left to enter) has got to be one of the most internet-cultured places on the net. Only there will you find pictures like these on a regular basis.

This one was specifically requested from their appropriately named Request forum. Who thinks of Russell Crowe from Gladiator offering cake? Really?

Because the Cookie Monster is practically the posterchild for the Dark Side...

This last one is titled "Man with giant cock".

Eric and Johan, the Gay Duo

2006-05-26T15:16:00.000-07:00

Fuzziness, Finishedness, and Patriotness

2006-05-24T00:55:00.000-07:00

You love it, you know you do. Don't deny the fluffiness. No one denies the fluffiness.

In other news, SUMMER IS FRIGGIN HERE FINALLY. I am done with all 5 of my finals, and I have high hopes for some decent grades (probably just jinxed it though). I will be moving into my apartment this Friday and out of this dirty old dorm asap.

And for you Mark Twain fans out there:

In the beginning of a change,
The Patriot is a scarce man and brave,
Hated and scorned.
When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him,
For then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Gawd I love people

2006-05-21T01:02:00.000-07:00

Some people just don't get it...which is why they love Bush so much right?

Also check out when Stephen Colbert rips our beloved hero a new one.

Thinking of getting a Japanese tattoo?

2006-05-15T02:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.soufoaklin.com/tattooartist.html

You should probably bring along someone who actually speaks the language...

In other news, this thing is a REALLY friggin cool "multi-touch-interaction" demo

http://letskit.blogspot.com/2006/05/multi-touch-interaction-experiment.html

Can you say "Boy in a dryer"?

2006-05-14T02:34:00.000-07:00

That's my friend from UCSB having some fun with a dryer. Don't ask, I'm sure alcohol was involved (hopefully, so it didn't hurt so much anyways).

Oscar Levant Quote

2006-05-14T01:55:00.000-07:00

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

P.S. - Thanks Andy

Dirty Old Man

2006-05-13T03:40:00.000-07:00

My Dad has obviously been keeping busy:

Butter?

2006-05-08T03:10:00.000-07:00

I recovered this post with the help of Steve from my old site (Google cache).

<raven> Any cat people here? I've got a problem with Nicky...
<Leth> I've been known to be handy with a wok
<Lore> Why, I'm a cat person.
<raven> I took Morgan to the vet yesterday - he was gone for a total of 45 minutes, got two vaccs and a blood draw.
<raven> Brought him home and Nicky went BALLISTIC.
<raven> Spent the rest of the night yowling and hissing and attacking MOrgan.
<CrazyClimber> nicky smells the hospital smells on morgan
<Lore> Yeah, I've seen that happen.
<raven> Is there anything I can do to get the hospital stink off
him, then? Pack his carrier in coffe grounds or something?
<tieboy> how about a bath
<CrazyClimber> just give it a day or so
<Lore> We tried catnip and butter, and neither worked.
<agent_orange> butter?
<agent_orange> you buttered your cat?
<Lore> Yes.
<raven> it's the best way to butter the house.
<raven> Cats are effective butter delivery units.
<Lore> We read somewhere to put butter on a cat's forehead.
<agent_orange> did the emolient facilitate insertion?
<Lore> And the other cat licks it off, and likes the first cat, because it tastes like butter.
<Lore> As I said, it didn't work.
<agent_orange> you read sopmewhere to put butter on the cats foreWHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING
<tieboy> rub the two cats together vigorously until they smell like each other
<agent_orange> piss on them both at the same time
<tieboy> KITTY TASTES LIKE BUTTER
<raven> It's more fun to put tape on their feet.
<agent_orange> why not do both
<agent_orange> and then get out the handycam
<Lore> I believe what I was thinking was "Maybe it will work. And
even if it doesn't, I get to butter the cat's forehead."
<agent_orange> AFHV would *love* some footage of sticky-pawed,
freshly buttered cats trying in vain to avoid a stream of steaming
miller lite
<Samwise> You know what helps with feuding cats, Lore? Sending me lots of cash.
<agent_orange> now, see, I read somewhere --
<agent_orange> I think it was leviticus
<agent_orange> -- that what you should do is frost them
<agent_orange> betty crocker, right out of the can
<raven> Chocolate or buttercream?
<Leth> rave: go chocolate, buttercreme isn't pareve
<CrazyClimber> you're frosting meat?
<agent_orange> and then there'a always Cat Wellington
<agent_orange> "What are you doing in the kitchen, dear?" "Just buttering the cat, pumpkin!"
<agent_orange> "Why don't you baste the chicken while you're at
it, too, dear?" "Baste the ... *light bulb* ...Sure! Sure, I'll 'baste
the chicken'!"
<CrazyClimber> a google images search for "buttered cat" returns a picture of isaac hayes
<agent_orange> chocolate salty cat balls

More snippets from bash.org involving butter.

Camera phone pics

2006-05-03T17:23:00.000-07:00

Josh, Butler (Cubey), Johan, Dave, and I all went out last Saturday night to Gordon Biersche Restaraunt. Good times were had by all, as you can see.

Johan got yanked from our dinner table to go dance with a random bachelorette. He, of course, brought his beer.

Dave got a little sleepy after we went out.

Butler showing his facsist heritage with his laptop cover hat.

Kiet also a little sleep after a long day in the CS Club.

2006-05-01T23:07:00.000-07:00

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell

Another quote from Google Personal Homepage

2006-04-24T17:44:00.000-07:00

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I really like this statement. I think if you don't have the ability to disagree or approve of anyone, whether friend or foe, then you remove your ability to remain unbiased.

Apparently there are some websites on Prolog

2006-04-22T18:12:00.000-07:00

A while back I made the comment that it was annoyingly difficult to find websites that talked about the programming language Prolog. A reader of my blog set me straight when he sent me the following list. I should note that I have not verified any of this exhaustively, but most sites do seem to have some good information.

*** Prolog Code from book- Computational Intelligence - Poole, Mackworth and Goebel
*** Prolog Programming A First Course
*** The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Logic Programming
**** 2G1121 Logic Programming - Notes, Links and Tutorials on Prolog ****
***** CIS203 Introduction to AA( - Dr. Pei Want Prolog *****
***** Index of Various Prolog Tutorials
***** Prolog: The ISO Standard Documents
***** Theory and Practice of Logic Programming - Prolog - current as of 2005
***Object-Oriented Logic Programming
6 Definite Clause Grammars
A Prolog CGI Interface - Bob Carpenter
A Prolog Introduction for Hackers || kuro5hin.org
A Short Tutorial on Prolog
A Short Tutorial on Prolog
A Short Tutorial on Prolog - Tamsin Treasure-Jones
A. Aaby - Prolog Tutorial - Prolog in One Page
ActiveX Extensions to SWI Prolog
ActiveX Extensions to SWI Prolog - a second source
AI Magazine: TALPS: the T-AVB automated load-planning system - a Prolog-based system
AI Programming Resources
Amazon.com: Books / Subjects / Computers & Internet / Programming / Languages & Tools / Prolog
Amazon.com: Books: Prolog by Example: How to Learn, Teach and Use It (Symbolic Computation-Artificial Intelligences)
Amazon.com: Books: Prolog from the Beginning
AMZI Adventure In Prolog
AMZI Book: Building Expert Systems in Prolog (complete)
AMZI Prolog
AMZI Prolog
Amzi Prolog - Articles about Applications
Artificial Intelligence II (CSE 5361) Spring 1995 Lisp and Prolog
Artificial Intelligence in Prolog- course notes - Matthew Huntbach
ASPN : Python Cookbook : Pythologic -- Prolog syntax in Python
AxelD's S W P E T S Prolog Toolbox free software
B-Prolog
Balanced Binary trees in Prolog
Bemjamin Johnston's Prolog pages - Prolog promoter
Benjamin Johnston
Benjamin Johnston
Benjamin Johnston - Prolog Server Pages
Bienvenue sur le site de Prologia
BinNet Corp. HomePage - BinProlog
BinProlog FAQ - Links to many Tutorials!
BinProlog FAQ and 4 Tutorials!
Blip: Serval - Prolog as a server application language
Blip: Serval Biomedical Logic Programming Prolog CGI pages
Blipkit: Biomedical LogIc Programming Knowledge Integration Kit - Prolog
Book - Natural Language Processing Techniques in Prolog
Book - Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis - Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber
Book review - Clocksin & Mellish's new Programming in Prolog by Demoen
Book: "Artificial Intelligence through Prolog" by Neil C. Rowe prolog book
book: An Introduction to Logic Programming through Prolog
Book: Logic, Programming and Prolog by Ulf Nilsson and Jan Maluszynski
Brain Aid Prolog Home Page, BAP Prolog
BURKS - Programming languages - Prolog
Business Rules Markup Language (BRML) - like Prolog
CbBrowne's Prolog Links - Tutorials
CGTools Prolog + Conceptual Graphs OOP
Chris Fox's private page - Tcl/Tk to Prolog interface
Christoph Draxler - Prolog to SQL Compiler
Christoph Lehner's Prolog Tree Draw Program
CLIP Group Locally (Co-)Developed Software
Clocksin PPT files et al - Prolog for Artificial Intelligence
CLP prolog and Chemical Reaction Pathways
CMU Prolog Repository
Cogsweb Project Books - AI in Lisp and Prolog
Colin Barker's Home Page - LPA prolog code dynamic programming
comp.lang.prolog prolog FAQ
comp.lang.prolog prolog FAQ - old
Contents of the DEC-10 Prolog Library
CS236319 - Programming Language Concepts - Home Page - Great Slides
CS322, 1999 Modules David Poole's Lecture notes on Computational Intelligence and Prolog - lots of code
Developer information about Trinc-Prolog, an Object Oriented Prolog for Windows
DGKS Prolog - Prolog in Java
Dick Grune's Annotated Literature Lists - Prolog Implementation
Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm - in Prolog Colin Barker
Document your Prolog code!
Dr W.F. Clocksin's Home Page Prolog
Dr. Michael A. Covington - Efficient Prolog : A Practical Guide (PDF)
DRAFT -- Logic Programming in Perl -- DRAFT Perl and Prolog
Edinburgh Prolog Library Tools - good source libraries
Efficient Head Corner Parsing - ALVEY Natural Language Tools in Prolog
Eleazar's Natural blog - Prolog Stuff Here
Elex - Generate Prolog Tokenizers
family.prolog source
FAQ: Prolog Implementations 2/2 [Monthly posting]
FAQ: Prolog Resource Guide 1/2 [Monthly posting] - [1-19] The ISO Standard for Prolog and other Prolog standards
FLORID Project
FramerD - Portable OO database w/ SCHEME interpreter - like Prolog
FSA6.2xx: Prolog Finite State Automata Utilities - Set operations, Hashes et al
Fuzzy Logic IF-THEN Rules in Amzi! Prolog - Scalable Monotonic Chaining Version
Fuzzy Logic IF-THEN Rules in Amzi! Prolog - Singleton-Geometry and Centroid-Defuzzification Version
General Server Pages
GEOMETRIX - Geometry Tutor in visual Prolog
GNU Prolog - a Prolog Compiler - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
GNU Prolog for Java
Google Directory - Computers > Programming > Languages > Prolog > Implementations
Google Groups : PROLOG Digest V5 #79 - Critique of Malpas' book
Google Groups : PROLOG Digest V6 #3 Richard Overbeek critiques Richard O'Keefe's critical style - see Malpas
Google Groups: Is Prolog Complete Decidable Expressive Sound?
Google Groups: View Thread "Jobs that require Prolog?"
Google Search - Difference Lists in Prolog
Google Search:
Google Search: erlang with Prolog
Google Search: Examples of Difference Lists in Prolog
Google Search: FOPL versus description logic
Google Search: group:comp.lang.prolog author:jamie@cs.sfu.ca
Google Search: group:comp.lang.prolog author:jamie@cs.sfu.ca
Google Search: jocelyn paine spreadsheet group:comp.lang.prolog
Google Search: learning prolog
Google Search: predicate calculus and Prolog
Google Search: Prolog and 2003 "business rules"
Google Search: PROLOG Digest - a comp.lang.prolog publication
Google Search: Prolog Lee Naish on Cut, Soft Cut & if
Google Search: prolog semantic web
Google Search: RADIOWEB Project - CLIP Prolog
Google Search: What is "memoization" or "tabling" in Prolog and LISP
Graphics and Languages for the FMF - Sowa - Elephant 2000 PrologIX
Gray/Lucas: Prolog and Databases
GRIPS - a pre-processor for functional programming in Prolog
Guide to Prolog Programming
GUPU - Teaching Prolog and constraints
Half.com - T. van Le, Techniques of Prolog Programming with Implementation of Logical Negation & Quantified Goals
hipP: A high performance Prolog system with ILP
Home page of Peter Reintjes: Prolog Logic Programming Telephone Internet
Home Page of the Prolog Programming Contests
HTML as a User Interface for a Prolog Program
http://paul.rutgers.edu/quintus/ - Quintus Prolog 3.3 Documentation
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/prolog/prolog.el - emacs settings for SWI prolog
IF MINERVA /MINERVA/ - Prolog in Java
INAP2001 Program - Recent Papers on Prolog applications
INCITS/ISO/IEC 13211-1-1995 ANSI ISO Prolog Standards Doc ansidocstore: Product: 'Information Technology - Prolog Language Part 1: General Core '
Index of /prolog/sql Prolog to SQL translation
Index of Logic Puzzles - Prolog
Interactive Prolog Guide
Internet and WWW programming using LP and CLP Prolog
InterProlog - a Prolog-Java interface
InterProlog - a Prolog-Java interface
INTHELEX - INcremental THEory Learner from EXamples - machine learning - ML - written in Prolog - alternative to PROGOL
Introduction to prolog - Tom Cornell at Uni-Tuebingen
Introduction to Prolog for Mathematicians - at Jocelyn Paine's site
Introduction to Prolog for Mathematicians:
Is the ISO Prolog standard taken seriously?
ISO Standard Prolog mini-manual
ISO-PROLOG and the Warren Abstract Machine - Algebraic representation of Prolog - proving programs true
James Cheney's Home Page - Logic programming Prolog category theory
Jamie Andrews
Java Pro - Prove It, Don't Compute It Prolog in Java
Java Uniform Document Environment uses XSB Prolog (like DataLog) to document development, including database design
JavaLog - Prolog interpreter written in Java(tm)
JFS Biography
JIProlog - Java Internet Prolog
JLog - Java-based Prolog
Jocelyn Paine
Jocelyn Paine
lambda Prolog Home Page
Lambda the Ultimate Prolog and Mercury Compared
Languages for the Java VM - many Prologs
Lawrence B. Holder: Lisp AI and Prolog Courses
Learn Prolog Now! Tutorial - Blackburn Bos Striegnitz learn prolog now
Learning Prolog - CS2LAP Notes
Lewis Language = Prolog Alternative with Logical, Functional & Procedural Modes
Links for Java Prolog
LISP FAQ [6-7] implementations of Prolog in Lisp?
Logic Programming Associates LPA Prolog
Logical Loops in Prolog - The ECLiPSe Constraint Logic Programming System
LogicWeb: Logic Programming for the World-Wide Web
Logtalk compatibility
Logtalk home page
Loom - a Prolog like language - description logic
LP and the World
LPA Prolog
LPA Win-Prolog Goodies - Lots of Prolog Code
Lógica Algorítmica - Course/tutorial in Logic Programming CLP, Pillow, WWW with Prolog
MasterProlog (formerly BIM)
Mirror - Introduction to Prolog for Mathematicians - by Jocelyn Paine
More on Pillow and Manuel Hermenegildo.
Native OS/2 Logic Programming 1
Natural Language - Grammars and Prolog
Natural Language Processing Techniques in Prolog
Nettalk - Do My Homework and Mainstreaming Prolog
Object-Oriented Language: Prolog
Object-Oriented Logic Programming Resources
Oleg on Prolog and Logic Programming
Online Prolog course - Programming in Logic - Helmar Gust
Open Agent Architecture (OAA) - Uses Prolog - very current
Orisa Prolog
Overview of Prolog Systems - Feature comparison
Oxford University Computing Laboratory information
P#: A concurrent Prolog for .NET
P-99: Ninety-Nine Prolog Problems - 99
Package: lang/prolog/gui/protcl/ Prolog interface to Tcl/Tk
PACLP99
PACLP99 Invited Talks
Page WEB Pierre Nugues - Prolog guy
Page WEB Pierre Nugues - Prolog guy
PalmLog - Prolog for the Palm Pilot
Parallel Prolog -- BAP Online Manuals
Paralogic, Inc. - parallel prolog and Beowulf clusters
Paul Tarau's Prolog papers at North Texas
PC AI The Prolog Programming Language
Perl Style Regular Expressions in Prolog
PiLLoW Pages - Web Prolog
PolyFARM- Datalog Prolog Rule Mining
Practical Standard Prolog Courseware Initiative - Tutorials - ISO http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/gupu
ProData Prolog interface to ODBC relational database (ProDBI)
Professor David Poole - Prolog code - Bayesian networks
Professor Neil C. Rowe: many Prolog papers and algorithms - Naval Search
ProGA, index Genetic Algorithms in Prolog
Programming in Prolog - Lecture notes on NLP
Programming in Schelog - Prolog in LISP
Programming in Tabled Prolog (very) DRAFT 1 - David S. Warren
Programming in Tabled Prolog (very) DRAFT 1 - prolog book
Programming in XPCE/Prolog
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE CONCEPTS - Prolog and Logic Programming
Prolog and AI
Prolog and Logic Programming Links
Prolog and Mercury Compared
Prolog and Regular Expressions
Prolog as a Database Query Langauge
Prolog Book: Natural Language Computing: A Generative grammar in Prolog nyu
Prolog Cafe: A Prolog to Java Translator System
Prolog DCGs - A brief introduction to definite clause grammars and definite clause translation grammars
Prolog DCGs - A definite-clause grammar representation of an XSD schema
Prolog Guide - Prolog in Examples - tutorial
Prolog Guide - Sorting
Prolog II+ by Alan Colmerauer
Prolog in Javascript (!)
Prolog IV - By Alan Colmerauer
Prolog Job
prolog job listings
Prolog Lecture Timetable - Class Prolog notes and lectures
Prolog Online Reference | Prolog Server Pages
Prolog Online: BinProlog Quick Query Evaluator
Prolog Programming A First Course - by Paul Brna - mirror
Prolog Programming A First Course - Paul Brna - Mirror of http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/~paul/prologbook/
Prolog Programming: a do-it-yourself course for beginners
Prolog Resource Guide
Prolog Resource Guide - once a prolog FAQ - circa 1997
Prolog Server Pages for SWI Prolog
Prolog Tools
Prolog Tutorial
Prolog Tutorial
Prolog Tutorial
Prolog Tutorial - Left off here!
Prolog Tutorial -- Contents
Prolog Tutorials: An Introduction to PROLOG - James Power
Prolog Under the Hood: An Honest Look
Prolog Virtual Worlds with SWI Prolog and Microsoft
ProNTo - Prolog Natural Language Tools
Proposed ISO Prolog Changes & Prolog Library - Richard A. O'Keefe
Prova language for rule based scripting of java - like Prolog
PSP Demo
Public-domain Prolog library
Public-domain Prolog library
Quintus Prolog
Quintus Prolog for Windows NT
Ramakrishnan, R.; Ullman, J.: A Survey of Research in Deductive Database Systems - Prolog
rfc3986 URL in Prolog DCG form
Rolf Schwitter - Implementing Prolog-Run WWW Sites
Roman Bartak LEARNING PROLOG VIA EXAMPLES 1997
Roman Bartak's Guide to Constraint Programming
Screamer Tool Repository
search.cpan.org: Language::Prolog::Yaswi - Yet another interface to SWI-Prolog
search.cpan.org: Language::Prolog::Yaswi - Yet another interface to SWI-Prolog
SEEK-Wiki: Sparrow - algorithms and techniques from logic-based knowledge representation and databases Prolog
Serving Multiple HTML Clients from a Prolog application
SICStus Prolog
SICStus Prolog - Programming Tips and Examples
SICStus Prolog 3
SICStus Prolog Documentation Index
SICStus Prolog Documentation manual
SICSTUS Prolog libraries - sets, lists, math,graphs, unix routines o'keefe's stuff
SICStus Prolog Mailing List Archives - e-mail
Simple PSP Demo
simple.prolog source
Site Directory
Small Prolog version 2, by Henri de Feraudy
solving a logic puzzle with Prolog
solving crypto-arithmetic puzzles with Prolog
SourceForge.net: PrologDoc -Prolog tool to document your Prolog applications
Spherum Home Page - a LISP- and Prolog- like functional language
Spreadsheets + Prolog - Spreadsheet structure discovery with logic programming
Stony Brook Prolog for MS-DOS at CMU repository
Submit program to TermiLog - Tests whether a Prolog program terminates
Sussex NLCL: Home - Natural Language and Computational Linguistics - Prolog Lisp
SWI Prolog dll use with RDF Mozilla
SWI Prolog Editor -= not by SWI
SWI-Prolog HTTP support
SWI-Prolog mailing list archive
SWI-Prolog mailing list archive By Date SWI PROLOG
SWI-Prolog mailing list: Re: [SWIPL] Why Use Prolog?
Tabling in Prolog
The Aditi Deductive Database
The Association of Logic Programming (ALP)
The Association of Logic Programming (ALP)
The China Benchmark Suite - Prolog Benchmark
The Ciao Prolog Development System WWW Site
The Ciao Prolog Development System WWW Site
The Ciao Prolog Development System WWW Site
The Ciao Prolog System - Introduction
The Ciao Prolog System - Prolog to SQL translator
The Ciao Prolog System - Table of Contents
The Ciao Prolog System - The socket interface
The Ciao Prolog System - Using Ciao inside GNU emacs
The Ciao Prolog System Reference Manual - Table of Contents
The CLP(BN) System - integrates Bayesian networks with Prolog
The Course Logic Programming 2G1121 - Prolog
The Dudley Page - Book "Programming Expert Systems in Prolog" by Merritt
The Dudley Page - Prolog Programming & Puzzles
The ECLiPSe Constraint Logic Programming System - Prolog Compatible
The GNU Prolog web site - a compiled Prolog
The Goedel Programming Language - Pat Hill - Like Prolog
The LaSt language - Layout & Styling - CLIP Prolog
The Mercury Project: Introduction
The New York Times > Health > Mental Health & Behavior > Is Prozac Better? Is It Even Different?
The Prolog Dictionary
The Prolog to Mercury transition guide
The Spreadsheet Autopublisher: Model Master Submissions Page
The Starlog Project at the University of Waikato - bottom-up Prolog
The Watchmaker and The Spreadsheet Factory: Compositional Spreadsheet Programming - Prolog & Spreadsheets
The World Wide Web Virtual Library_ Logic Programming
The YAP Prolog System
Tom's free programs - free Prolog software
Transaction Logic Prototype
Travelling Salesman Problem
Trinc Prolog Job Center
tuProlog - Java-based Prolog supporting tuple-based Linda interaction
tuProlog Pages - Prolog Engine for Java and .NET
Tutorial: AMZI Adventures in Prolog.
Tutorial: Roman Bartak's Prolog in Examples - tutorial 1998
Tutorial: Starting Prolog
TWiki . FAQ . PrologReading
U. of Birmingham Prolog Course: SEM223 Introduction - Nice!
U. of Birmingham Prolog Course: SEM242 Introduction
UKoLa AI Research Group_ RoboCup -- RoboLog Soccer Agent Libraries
University of Edinburgh jobs - Prolog
UnSpace » Blog Archive » A Matter of Gravity: Prologue in Two and Three Dimensions
URLs of Prolog Compiler vendors
Used Borland/Inprise Programming Tools for Sale - turbo prolog
Visual Prolog
Visual Prolog 6 Tutorials
Visual Prolog 6: Products, Compiler, Download Free Personal Edition
Visual Prolog Freeware Version
Visual Prolog Freeware Version - 5.2 Personal Edition
Visual Prolog Product Info
VivoMind by Arun Majumdar - Binnet Prolog developer - Paul Tarau co-worker
W-Prolog - Prolog in Java (~1000 lines of Java) - recommended by Benjamin Johnston
Web-sites connected with Strawberry Prolog
WebCHR - CHR Constraint Solvers Prolog
Welcome to the CLIP Lab at DIA-FIM-UPM
Why Use Prolog?
wordnet 2.0 data files in mysql format - from Prolog WordNet
XML.com: An Introduction to Prolog and RDF
XPCE Home
XPCE Home page - SWI Prolog
XSB Group Home Page
YAP Prolog Reference Manual Online

JWZ.org

2006-04-19T23:23:00.000-07:00

This is an interesting site written by a guy who worked on the early mozilla project.

In particular, this page is pretty damn funny:

http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html

Enjoy.

Fun time with some friends after hours...

2006-04-18T02:48:00.000-07:00

Some pictures from a little party with my comp sci buddies...

Me, Josh, and Butler having a shot.

Josh, Butler, Allison, Evan, Andy, and Kiet posing.

Kiet, Butler, Andy, and Evan bowing before the bottom-feeder....I mean topcoder, Johan (with antlers).

So how do they get Tephlon to stick to the pan?

2006-04-13T00:59:00.000-07:00

Answer:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_173.html

Turns out they just basically make the pan really rough, then prime the pan with a thin layer of the stuff so that it mechanically sticks, then put another coat on that sticks to the primer and they bake it on to make it more permanent.

Aren't you glad you found out?

Man attempts selling of wife's part

2006-04-04T16:09:00.000-07:00

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/31/ebay_box_sale/

Random linkage

2006-04-03T03:22:00.000-07:00

Ever wonder if there was a definitive guide on the rules pertaining to calling shotgun while attempting to gain the front passenger seat? Your prayers have been answered.

Beautiful words like defenestrate bring almost as much cheer as throwing stuff out windows.

But what brings me the most cheer is finishing up some nice work on my dad's house building site, LibertyEstatesRealty.com, where there are some cool pictures of the process of building houses in Canton, Georgia. A shameless plug? Maybe. A beautiful state, especially where my dad is building? Definitely.

--Glenn

2006-03-24T03:38:00.000-08:00

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

- Rita Rudner

My Unadulterated Desktop

2006-03-24T01:38:00.000-08:00

Life-Like Animated Boobies!!!!

2006-03-10T02:04:00.000-08:00

Awesomeness:

http://www.shockabsorber.co.uk/bounceometer/shock.html

2006-03-06T21:52:00.000-08:00

"They that can give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither."

--Benjamin Franklin

My roommate is really dirty

2006-02-24T22:55:00.000-08:00

CS verses Engineering

2006-02-22T15:57:00.000-08:00

(3:55:36 PM) NeatoDude1: how many cs programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
(3:55:37 PM) NeatoDude1: none! - it's a hardware error

MUHAHAHAHAHAHA - silly hardware guys

-g

Repeat in history? Check out this poem and reflect on what Bush is doing with the Patriot Act

2006-02-18T17:08:00.000-08:00

When the Nazis arrested the Communists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.
When they locked up the Social Democrats, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
When they arrested the trade unionists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist.
When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.
When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.
- translated by Bob Berkovitz (rbbrook@worldnet.att.net).

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Juden holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.
- Martin Niemöller, Der Weg ins Freie, (F.M. Hellbach, Stuttgart, 1946)

Eric and Johan, the Gay Duo

2006-02-14T01:47:00.000-08:00

Need I say more? Just watch the friggin video:

2006-02-09T02:40:00.000-08:00

Life is odd yet amusing:

http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2000/07/05/madrid/

taa taa.

Links to all the photos from my recent trips

2006-01-17T20:22:00.000-08:00

Mexico Pictures
Snowboarding Pictures

Enjoy!

Pics of Cozumel and our new friends Josh and Jenny

2006-01-12T14:38:00.000-08:00

Mas picturas de Mexico

2006-01-09T20:20:00.000-08:00

Mexico!

2006-01-05T20:22:00.000-08:00

Asteroids game with a ship now!

2005-12-31T18:10:00.000-08:00

Link

Extract -> Open -> Run -> Enjoy

I added a cool ship icon and it turns and everything. Who could ask for more. Send money!

Looking to buy a home?

2005-12-28T01:09:00.000-08:00

Move to Georgia. It is really pretty and has some great seasonal weather. My dad sells houses in Canton, Georgia, so I get to visit every once and a while.

My woman and my program....

2005-12-27T13:19:00.000-08:00

My new fantasy woman. She's awful purty, ain't she? You know what is also purty is my new little project over break: an asteroid game. Download -> Extract -> Enjoy.

Happy Holidays

Picture by Philippe Boule and Maver Digital Arts.