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Here’s one curious thing I saw on YouTube: the script which seyuu read.

I am wondering if they can be gotten somewhere. They used to sell cells back in pre-computer days, so why not scripts?

I needed the in-browser Java in order to access remote console on (older) HP iLO. Unfortunately, Sun neglected to provide a 64-bit plugin. This did not look anything that “setarch i686 firefox” would not fix, but alas, it did not quite work. Simple applets worked, but accessing iLO hanged the browser.

I worked around by using an old 32-bit laptop, but it was hugely inconvenient. First, I had to temporarily shut down my VPN (and mail), redirect NAT rules, start VPN on the old box, and undo all of it when done. Then, I had to either quit main Firefox (because apparently there’s no way to make a remote Firefox not to signal to local Firefox running on the same X display) or walk over and start Firefox there.

Today, I accidentially found that “yum install redhat-artwork.i386″ allows Java plugin to work normally.

The most unpleasant part of the whole experience is being helpless without knowing proper tools (if they even exist). The strace is nice and all, but it may be difficult to figure out what exactly went wrong from its output.

Anyone who continues to take this guy seriously needs to consider that he proposed to charge per e-mail as a way to combat spam. One look at tons of crap filling my USPS inbox, for which paper spammers are already being charged, is sufficient to tell me all I need to know about Bob Metcalf’s cognitive abilities.

If things go as they do, this is going to be 100% anime blog. Seriously, is anyone interested in my complaints about HP iLO telling Linux “I will send you position in the range from 0 to 3000″, and then multiplying every datum by 3000 (which puts every nonzero report outside of the range)? Oddly enough, Windows work (reportedly). Maybe I should call Bruce Perens or Bdale Garbee… OK, just kidding.

Lucky☆Star went out of the gate with an enormous load of expectations. Almost every blog I follow dedicated it a post or more.
: “I don’t think it was all it was cracked up to be,”
: “a mixed bag”,
: Panned,
: “episode 2 of sucky star was just as bad”,
: using as an opportunity to editorize about KyotoAni and the future of the art,
: quite positive,
: positive,
: only poll at first, “Indifferent Star” ,

: panned badly,
lifted a bunch of quotes from others, got confused,
: confused as well,
: Shrill Lolis,
: very positive,
: not very coherent or articulate,
: somewhat positive.

My initial and flawed impression is that of Azumanga humor without Azumanga’s substance. What’s worse, creators had no idea what made Azumanga successful: this is the only explanation I see for the Lucky Channel. So while I hope that Lucky Star’s special ingredient is there and just escapes my understanding, it probably is not present after all.

I really like the simple dialog. For example, Miyuki (pictured above) said: “まぜたりはしませんが、均等(きんとう)に なるように しています” (”I don’t mix them, but I make sure they’re balanced,” or, literally, “I will become them into balance”). Actually, “kintou” was neigher in my Kodancha nor in Seigo Nakao’s, so I had to look it up at dic.yahoo.co.jp. But overall, girls use basic forms which I studied before, and listening to them feels very pleasant and comfortable.

I don’t think I’ll follow this, I’m much too busy with work right now, but it may be something to revisit later.

was very slow for me for a few days, because I forgot to start my tunnel with BTexact, and so Firefox had to time out and fall back to IPv4. Let’s see if this one survives longer than lkml.org. Both lkml.org and animesuki.com are located in Holland.

When I saw the bloody Mini, I knew by reason that such an eggregous breach of continuity can only be explained by product placement. But it can’t be so blatant, can it?

Ubu that it can, on the strength of product placement in Code Geass. To the best of my knowledge, however, Pizza Hut never admitted to the sponsorship. Anime is not yet at the stage when such deals are announced with a press release. Still, the process of desensitizing to the practice in games was going . Hollywood studios did it for decades as well. So, BMW might as well speak the truth now.

{Fridge thought: The telltale sign of product placement in anime is a proper logotype or spelling, not the number of occurences. When not sponsored, the brand is always misspelled: camcoder “PONY”, excavator “Hatachi”, etc.}

Mohammad :

One thing that caught my attention in episode 8 was the use of the swastika on the flag. […]

I just realised something, all five girls in the student council have names that start with an “M” sound. I wonder if that is intentional.

Good thinking, but he needs to make further steps, develop the speculation. I about the Nazi connection before.
Regarding names, it is obvious that they form the standard Japanese alphabet progression “あいうえお”:

A few bloggers figured it out, I saw it first on .

It seems that I’m powerless to stop the evdev juggernaut.

The alternative, as far as absolute mode is concerned, is either to add absolute mode to mouse, or add automatic configuration to evdev. It seems “obvious” that adding absolute mode to the mouse is the way to go, given how immature evdev is. However, this is not the whole picture, and since evdev promises tons of features, everyone but me seems settled on fixing the evdev’s problems. The biggest of them is lack of autoconfiguration: users have to guess the evdev number for their devices (A bunch of hacks around it exist, starting from evdev options like “Name”, and up to ad-hoc daemons (like hpmouse) multiplexing into a named pipe.). The lesser one is how it crases and takes the X server with it. This should be fixable. After all, synaptics plugs into the same API and works fine.

I thought what the next step ought to be for me and probably it’s going to be a) make a standard set of udev rules to create /dev/input/evdev (instead of letting evdev to poke around sysfs and bloat even more with a confusing hodge-podge of ad-hoc code), and b) debug evdev crashes and get someone to take fixes into X.

I have seen the ending, slept on it, and today joins Azumanga Daioh and Haibane Renmei in my exclusive panteon of the very best anime known to man.

This was a long road and many decent series failed the ultimate challenge.

Detailed report to follow later. Maybe.

Liked: Yes
Rewatch: Hell, yes

LJ tag:

{Update: How did manage to compose the theme song for an anime aired in January 2007 if she died in May of 2004? Apparently this project was in the works for an unusually long time.}

I found a patch in my mbox which sat there waiting for integration since March 2005. That is, for two years. It was written by someone using a pseudonym “Blue Swirl” and adds ANSI escape sequence support to PROLL. By this time it’s probably the best to pretend that I have lost the patches and the whole project tree in a disk crash, and encourage someone to fork it. Hey, it worked for ESR and fetchmail. It’s a vibrant project now… *rimshot* (I’m so going to hell for this).