Monday, May 2, 2011

Upstart Natty Narwhal Ubuntu 11.04 power fail b0rk...

Crash (power fail) partway through upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 to Mythbuntu 11.04...

Re-ran the upgrade again from the Mythbuntu 11.04 CD.

Unfortunately this left upstart b0rked.

'Fake' initctl was left in place - presumably as a vestige of the (failed) upgrade.

Attempt to start mysql server failed with 'fake initctl' complaint.

Searched unsuccessfully for fix in Ubuntu forums.

Seems to be fixed now with:

#apt-get install upstart --reinstall

#/etc/init.d/mysql start

seems to work OK.

Upstart Howto -- Ubuntu 11.04

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpstartHowto

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Recording stream in mplayer

mplayer -dumpstream

optionally add -dumpfile

Dorkbot Videos - FORTH and Bynase

FORTH David Frech - Bootstrap yourself into conviviality by writing your own Forth:
http://www.vimeo.com/859408?ab

Thomas Lockney's intro:
http://www.vimeo.com/858102?ab

Ward Cunningham: What if Bacteria Designed Computers?:
http://www.vimeo.com/858385

DorkbotPDX 0x01, March 30, 2008.
Visit dorkbotpdx.org for more info.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Dvorak on FORTH, and vice versa

"I have yet to see a decent piece of software written in Forth. Let's face it. Forth stinks." --- John C. Dvorak, provocateur and columnist, InfoWorld, October 29, 1984.

"I have yet to see a decent piece of software written by Dvorak. Let's face it. Dvorak stinks." --- FORTH, programming language and philosphy of automatic thought.

;-)

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Haskell: good for rat's brains!

http://vidiowiki.com/feature/fnu/icfp_09#_j795rag

ICFP Conference 2011 Tokyo

http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2011/
Functional Programming Languages Conference

Scribble - Documentation tool language PLT Scheme video

http://www.vimeo.com/6630691

Env, Man! EnvMan blog

http://envman.blogspot.com/

Secure Kernel in Scheme48

http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/secureos.html

GNUnet

https://gnunet.org/

More Scheme Video Lectures!

http://programming-musings.org/2009/12/23/scheme-lectures-mostly/

ZSLUG 1st meeting report Zurich Hans Huebner FPGA LISP Machine

http://zslug.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/meeting-1-report-audio-und-slideware-of-hans-talk/

A Scheme Bookshelf - Programming Musings

http://programming-musings.org/2007/01/31/a-scheme-bookshelf/

SEIA Software Engineering for Internet Applications - Philip Greenspun

http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/

Why top US Universities are so expensive...

http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html

Wow - so that's how it really works...

Cleaning Up Video Files

Generic:
http://www.google.co.nz/search?aq=1&oq=cleaning+up+video&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cleaning+up+video+files#q=cleaning+up+video+files&hl=en&prmd=ivns&ei=W3WaTdvmH4rZcYng-d4F&start=0&sa=N&fp=97dfff1b864bbdfd

Linux:
http://www.google.co.nz/search?aq=1&oq=cleaning+up+video&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cleaning+up+video+files#q=cleaning+up+video+files+linux&hl=en&prmd=ivns&ei=23WaTcjpOMKecJDS2e4F&start=0&sa=N&fp=97dfff1b864bbdfd

Tuesday, March 22, 2011