http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward Code anyone? Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:45:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hacking away in latex again, and I had divided my bibtex files into two areas because I had read that you could do this and include multiple separate .bib files no problem. I read that: \bibliography{bibfileone} \bibliography{bibfiletwo} would work - but it didn't. Bit tricky to find the easy answer... which surprised me. ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2007/01/29/using-multiple-bibtex-files/ Who needs AI when you can just plug a cockroach into your robot? Now, i'm not going into the ethics of this, and the youtube comments are a major mix of "that's cool" to "that's so wrong"... which is to expect. My favourite was along the lines of "why not just ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2007/01/17/the-cpu-is-a-bug-roach-controlled-robot/ I know - emotive title, but zoneedit.com downtime does suck. Yes, I was using their "free" service, but if it doesn't work it doesn't matter what the price is. Not working still equals not working. So, I have been a long time user of ZoneEdit.com, and although the web based interface ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2006/12/21/zoneedit-downtime-sucks/ I was thinking about adding some extras to our wordpress install now that the marking is out of the way. So, for those of you with a byteclub blog hosted here, let me know (email or comment) what you would like. That goes for themes too. I know that people ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2006/11/30/themes-plugins-for-wordpress-who-wants-what/ So you need a local host file entry in Mac OS X eh? It's /etc/hosts However you'll need to sudo to change this (say sudo nano /etc/hosts). So you change the hosts file, and save it, but you see no change in behaviour ... unless ... you flush the name lookup ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2006/11/27/local-hosts-file-mac-os-x/ It's been a while since I compared php opcode cache accelerators, so it was nice to read a quick summary of the current players. Thought others might enjoy: http://www.ducea.com/2006/10/30/php-accelerators/ Seems eAccelerator is a good open source option. This came from a recent sampling of an easy OS X (~L)AMP install option (because although ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2006/11/16/php-accelerators-mamp/ For a nice java-based information visualisation toolkit project, check out http://prefuse.org/. Okay, the applet+data download may take a while, but I quite like this one from the gallery http://prefuse.org/gallery/graphview/ (those who know my research will know why:) http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2006/11/10/prefuseorg-graph-visualisation-applet/ I recently used apt-get upgrade on my Debian server, and that included a new version of apache2 (2.2.3) and suddenly the two uses of .htaccess+htpasswd files I have were broken! (Didn't break anything but my personal stuff, so it wasn't then end of the world, but I still wasn't happy). ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2006/11/10/apache-223-update-no-authz_user-mod-eh/ Check out http://youtube.com/watch?v=DetnKgOxrSI (Jason sent me the link to gamescheatcodes.co.uk , which is really just a link to the youtube link above. Thanks Jason!). Yikes. [edit - title... I dont think it was accurate :)] http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2006/09/29/game_engineusingintelquadcore-awesome/ Moving between home and work, I sometimes have issues with the proxy settings of my web browsers. Today, I was trying out Eclipse, and while looking at the "what-new" and other tutorial related into, I had problems. The proxy.pac file that work has was making requests for 127.0.0.1 (aka "localhost") ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/cwoodward/2006/09/26/wrong-proxy-settings-write-your-own-pac/