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The innacurately named Mail 2.0
I’ve been attempting to use the latest version of Apple Mail to read my mail. An uncontroversial thing to do, you might think, but I can’t actually manage it. I started Mail about an hour ago, and it has busied…
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Higher order indifference
I had occasion to be in a bookstore yesterday, and came across Mark-Jason Dominus’s Higher Order Perl. Anyone wanting to do functional programming in Perl has to be seriously demented. Such activity is like reproducing the finest paintings of the…
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A brief note on the universe of free batching systems
At work, we spent some months wringing our hands over how to harness our increasing number of racked machines in a semi-sane way. In our case, since we work in the HPC arena, we needed a batch queuing system. Ten…
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The great Python vs ld.so smackdown
At work, I’m building an application in a combination of Python and C++. Working in Python is sheer pleasure, but trying to build a “shrink wrap” application in Python is a horrible task. The problem is that in order to…
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Configuring Postfix to use TLS and SMTP AUTH
I finally sat down to set up Postfix to allow people outside my firewall to send mail using my SMTP server. It was a mildly annoying task, but not too troublesome. Here are my notes on how it worked, in…
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Searching video
It was amusing to come across Google’s announcement of searchable video subtitles the other day. I thought of this applying this idea to a set-top box when I was at Rearden Steel; no, I’m sorry, Moxi; er, make that Digeo.…
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Arrival in Pittsburgh
I stumbled out of bed at 4am this morning, and bleared my way onto a two-hop flight from San Francisco to Pittsburgh, to start getting ready for this year’s Supercomputing Conference. So far, my seven-hour experience of Pittsburgh has been…
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Why Python is useless for serious XML processing
I have a Python application in which, for my sins, I decided to use XML as an on-disk storage format. Unfortunately, when I made this decision, I neglected to measure the performance of the available Python XML processing implementations. Bad,…
Blowing off the dust
I decided to resurrect the blog this evening, after a mere 18 months of inactivity. I thought it would be a simple matter of fiddling with a few Apache configuration directives; as I should have expected, it turned into a…
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