Archive for April, 2007

Freedom Systems vs Safety Systems

Code Craft had an extremely intuitive post about Freedom Languages vs Safety Languages. He covered what is popular vs what is fringe, where the party-lines are drawn and (imo) almost made an analogy for safety within the USA.
I’ll sum it up: You’re safe or free but rarely absolutely both.
So of course, me, […]

Parabola

My goal was to create the curves above. I knew if I could draw it then I could move a box or game object along that path. It took me about two weeks of casual time and many math questions posted to yahoo answers.
The problem is, implementing a math formula in C++. […]

Macbill Intel

No credit go to me, everything goes to Macbill. I couldn’t get it to build a ubin for the Macbill source and I couldn’t find one anywhere.
So here’s Macbill for Intel.

Upgrade fest.

Following an upgrade guide on gentoo’s lovely doc site. GCC was majorly out of date (3.3 to 4.1.1) and hopefully you can still read this after all is said and done.
Right now, apache is in a weird state and I need to emerge a ton of crap:

# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* Apache2 has detected a […]

lstat test

Following an interview question that was extremely hard I went to `man lstat’ and tried to code up a test just based on system documentation. It was not entirely successful, however after a tip-off from an online resource I came up with this.

Animated Box

I’m very, very early on in the effort of this graphics/game test. But essentially I wanted to write down where I’m at with Xcode, OpenGL and learning C++.
Learning C++ by starting with OpenGL is very stupid. I admit this. It’s the wrong way to start out. It’s like learning how to […]