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Ferry Boender

Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

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Archive for January 2005

The Joys Of Smoking

The Joys Of Smoking.

ListPatron and GtkGrid

So far I’ve been using GTK’s GtkTreeView in ListPatron. While this works fairly well, editing and manipulating columns is quite a hassle. For instance, it is practically impossible to select a column, let alone more than one column. Someone on #gtk+ (FreeNode IRC network) pointed me to GtkGrid. I’ve done some research on grids for […]

ListPatron v0.1.1 released

Ooh, a major bug crept into v0.1 of ListPatron. Apparently, if you loaded a ListPatron file, it wouldn’t save that file anymore. Only new files were saved. Saving also still worked if you used Save As… Stupid! It’s fixed in the v0.1.1 release. (Also fixed the README, which said you had to have GTK development […]

Nethack statistics II

Did some more work on the Nethack Statistics. (Script attached to the end of the file) It’s still much to slow. Running it on my logfile with 288 lines takes 8 seconds. 1 Second would even be too much for such a small file. Of course, the Bash script is horrible, and it calls on […]

I’m Debugging…

The Corrupt Stack Frame picks up a +6 SegFault. The Corrupt Stack Frame wields a +6 SegFault! What do you want to wield? [- a or ?*]a a – a blessed +3 debugger called GDB (weapon in hand). You miss the Corrupt Stack Frame. You miss the Corrupt Stack Frame. The Corrupt Stack Frame hits! […]

IRC Idle RPG

I have joined in the online IRC Idle RPG game on #nethack-idlerpg (Freenode), in seek of fame, fortune, high levels and extraordinary ammounts of idle time. I’m kind of chatty, so this might become a problem. The goal of the game? To be idle. Yes, that’s right, idle. Do not speak a word. Do not […]

More DVORAK

Coincidence has it that after my post on the DVORAK keyboard layout (sorry, can’t link to it. BBcode is broken), a discussion about the same topic has now emerged on slashdot. I’ll quote some of the more interesting posts: (some contents stripped) Ironically, QWERTY was actually designed to slow down the typist to prevent jamming […]

Perry Bible Fellowship

Cool online strip

DVORAK zealots thwarted

Well, this study suggests that there is no proof for the fact that DVORAK is actually a better/faster keyboard layout. But the evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak is flawed and incomplete. First, the claims for the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard are suspect. The most dramatic claims are traceable to Dvorak […]

Broken windows theory

There’s a theory called the Broken Windows theory which states, roughly, that once degredation starts, it will soon become worse if not attended too. The theory further suggests that the degradation has more influence than one might expect. This theory is usually brougt in relation with vandalism and crime. I found an interesting transscript of […]

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