machine-envy http://www.machine-envy.com/blog Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:27:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Links for January 12th through March 7th Insteresting stuff for January 12th through March 7th: Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux - nt tree, see apt-file code example below. To find out what libraries are needed use the ldd command - be aware that the file you think starts the application is often a script, and ... http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2008/03/08/links-for-january-12th-through-march-7th/ Links for January 4th through January 11th Insteresting stuff for January 4th through January 11th: financial reality » Blog Archive » Minsky Has His Moment - 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging : MoneyRumour.com - ie7-js - Google Code - 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection ... http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2008/01/12/links-for-january-4th-through-january-11th/ Links for December 31st through January 3rd Insteresting stuff for December 31st through January 3rd: ZSFA -- Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31) - SRA / Society for Risk Analysis / April 2006 Press Release - American Scientist Online - The Easiest Hard Problem - Pay Option ARM's - California's Billion Pound Gorilla | Loan Modification & Loan ... http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2008/01/04/links-for-december-31st-through-january-3rd/ Links for December 21st through December 30th These are my links for December 21st through December 30th: Lawlor-Pollock News & Updates - How SUVs Can Save the Climate â�� Sightline Institute - pybeanstalk - Google Code - Index of /~ben/funkload - Nose Plugins: Home - Johnny Chung Lee - Human Computer Interaction Research - Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python - Michael G. ... http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2007/12/31/links-for-december-21st-through-december-30th/ Egyptians to extend copyright term by ~4,000 years Over Christmas, this story broke, and it made me laugh so hard I couldn't let it pass without commenting. From the Guardian: Egypt is planning to pass a law that would exact royalty payments from anyone found making copies of the country's ancient monuments or museum pieces, including the pyramids. Although the ... http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2007/12/30/egyptians-to-extend-copyright-term-by-4000-years/ WTO allows piracy in Antigua In an extraordinary move the WTO has ruled with Antigua that it was illegal for the US to block online gambling. What makes this extra bizzare is that the compensation is to be claimed by allowing Antigua to violate American intellectual property. The reaction of the US is to rewrite ... http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2007/12/23/wto-allows-piracy-in-antigua/ Krugman on the subprime thing Worth watching http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2007/12/22/krugman/ Drowning in spam This blog was drowning in spam, so some action was needed.  Lets hope the new versions of akismet and spam karma can manage the best they can offer.  I will leave the comments open on this post, so come on casino and pharmacy owners - give it your best shot! http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2007/12/22/drowning-in-spam/ Tenori On - I want As seen on the excellent music thing http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2007/09/23/tenori-on-i-want/ Finally: a simple tool capable of producing debs, rpms, etc. I've no idea why it has taken so long to find it, but have a look at esp package manager. It's simple and it works. An example configuration file to show you what I mean: ## Metadata %product Foo %copyright 2000-2007 by Foowhizzer. %vendor Foocom %license COPYING %readme README %description Foo server. %version 2.2.2 1 ## ... http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2007/09/23/finally-a-simple-tool-capable-of-producing-debs-rpms-etc/