My cool word of the moment is circumflex. I saw it in the book lex & yacc, just skimmed through. It’s what this symbol is called: ^. It’s also known as a caret or a hat. Hat is the term I’m used to using, from physics. But “circumflex” definitely sounds cooler.
I just wasted an hour on this, so I hope that explaining the solution here will help someone. If you’re using TortoiseSVN and PuTTY, perhaps using a private key created with PuTTYgen (like me), then this probably applies to you. I’m using Windows XP Pro, but Home is probably the same. I didn’t have this…Continue Reading…
It’s the beginning of my 2nd week at JPL and I actually finished my lunch today, for the first time. Previously I’d always only manage to eat half of it. Today’s lunch was both delicious and relatively small. I got an Avocado Burger without fries. Two beef patties and slices of cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickels,…Continue Reading…
My knees were hurting quite a bit last Friday. I wonder why.
The weakest aspect of the neutrality case is that the dangers it alleges are speculative. It seems unlikely that broadband providers will degrade Web services that people want and far more likely that they will use non-neutrality to charge for upgrading services that depend on fast and reliable delivery, such as streaming high-definition video or…Continue Reading…
I noticed that I can’t “print” a blank page with my Epson Stylus Color 480SXU. I open Microsoft Word, just have a blank document, and click print. The print status window pops up, as if it’s going to print, but then it seems to complete while the printer doesn’t print out a blank page. I…Continue Reading…