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Patching Marc Rochkind’s Ux library

I've begun playing a bit with the Ux library from Marc Rochkind's book: Advanced UNIX Programming. Ux, recently mentioned by Bruce as well, is essentially a bunch of C++ wrappers for standard POSIX calls. Unfortunately, it didn't...

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links for 2006-10-12

New York Daily News - Home - Tot's parents die Very sad news about Sam Blyakher and Rebecca Sandak (tags: blyakher sandak friends sad death tragedy) Exupery Exupery is a compiler written in Smalltalk that compiles bytecodes to...

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Goodbye Sam and Rebecca

A friend of mine just sent me this very sad news: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/460713p-387480c.html Sam Blyakher and Rebecca Sandak were both in high school with me and I remember them well. Actually, I knew Rebecca...

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links for 2006-10-11

WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI (tags: wordpress ajax yahoo yui comments blog) Ux: C++ Wrapper for Standard UNIX Functions Ux is a C++ Wrapper for Standard UNIX Functions by Marc Rochkind from Advanced Unix...

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My sister’s family in town

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Ctrl-left and Ctrl-right in bash and Emacs

Sometimes the small things make a big difference. I noticed that the control-left and control-right keys weren't working in bash or Emacs on my FreeBSD box accessed over X11.app on OS X. Easily fixed. .inputrc "\e[1;5C":...

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Sony KDL-46V25L1 LCD HDTV @ Costco

Dropped by Costco this evening and noticed that Costco is carrying a new Sony 46" LCD HDTV, the KDL-46V25L1. A few weeks ago we had given up finding an HDTV because we couldn't find one that had everything we wanted, but this new...