A man’s level of abstraction should exceed his grasp, else what’s a “meta” for?
Posts by Peter
A New Hope
This blog has lain fallow for more than 2 years. Why is that, and what have I been doing in the meantime? Well: I wrote much of my dissertation, got a job as an Assistant Professor at Manhattan College, moved across the country, taught for a year while writing my dissertation, tried to defend but [...]
Your WordPress installation is probably unsafe
There’s a worm going around which breaks into old wordpress installations. I got bit and had to spend 2 hours of my life fixing it and broke a whole lot of custom stuff in the upgrade process. Don’t you get bit, too. Upgrade to the latest version today! Note: If your blog is not installed [...]
journal
Are blogs journals? When I think of a “journal”, I tend to think of something that is best called a diary. And that’s kind of what most blogs are – diaries. Which then makes a lot of sense that there is a popular site is called LiveJournal. But the best blogs end up not being [...]
routing
There’s a lot of grumbling about routing systems. Let’s do some quick analysis and apply some statistics to figure out what is required to do distributed routing that is topology aware: IF you want to know the path your packets will take THEN you need to know the full path for each prefix THEREFORE you [...]
Games for girls
Did you know that the majority of online gamers are women? It’s true, as long as you count Bejeweled and Weboggle and not just World Of Warcraft. So why do “Games for Girls” suck so bad? I was talking with a distinguished female professor of CS and she said that they made her nauseous with [...]
foo
I don’t use FOO. It pisses me off. For those of you who haven’t been initiated into the cult of computer programming, FOO is the word you use when you want to indicate the genericness of the concept under consideration. It’s a shorthand for “whatever, this could be anything, so I’m just going to name [...]
Cyborg
Cyborg (n) A person whose physical tolerances or capabilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by a machine or other external agency that modifies the body’s functioning; an integrated man-machine system. — The Oxford English Dictionary Okay, so now that we know what they are, think about the people you know. Any false hips? Any [...]
autolink v0.2
My wordpress plugin autolink has been updated! No longer will posts link to themselves, and also no longer will it change the capitalization of anything it finds. It has all the features I want, and none of the ones I don’t. Download it yourself as: autolink.zip
storage
–December 14, 2005 @ 19:17– RAID is too hard. People want their stuff to be backed up and not fail, but right now nobody does it. It would be really great if RAID were easy to set up and didn’t incur such a large startup cost, but right now it is unusable for me due [...]
