Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

I’m leaving for the airport in less than an hour, traveling to the Watson research lab to meet the rHype team. There are many things I wish to accomplish during this trip – including daily blogging. Stay tuned…

Orna and me decided we need a shared calendar. Most
families keep one on the wall, usually in the kitchen area. We now
keep a shared file on the local server. The file is in emacs’s diary
format and email reminders are sent nightly via the wonders of cron
and emacs -eval.

#!/bin/sh
# email.sh -- repeatedly run the Emacs diary-reminder
xemacs -batch \
-l diary-lib \
-eval "(let \
    ((diary-mail-days 3) \
     (european-calendar-style t) \
     (diary-file \"/path/to/diary\") \
     (rcpts '(\"muli@localhost\" \"ladypine@localhost\"))) \
  (mapcar \
   (lambda (addr) \
     (let \
         ((diary-mail-addr addr)) \
       (diary-mail-entries))) \
   rcpts))"

I’m back from the dentisht and talking all funny. Thish wash the shecond (and hopefully, lasht) root canal. Next up are a couple of shurgical exctractionsh, once I’m back from the Watshon trip. Joy!

The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9, by Rob Pike.

(via ericvh)

rHype – The IBM Research Hypervisor.

More to come.

I have two new toys of the computing kind. Say hello to elwyn, an
apple G5 (drool…) running yellowdog Linux:

[muli@elwyn muli]$ uname -a
Linux elwyn 2.6.4-1.1321 #1 Mon Mar 15 22:51:37 EST 2004 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux

and rhun, my new work Thinkpad T42p running RedHat:

[muli@rhun muli]$ uname -a
Linux rhun 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL #1 Wed Jan 12 23:46:37 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

A kernel infusion for both will take place as soon as I get to it.

It’s not often that I mention my studies on lj, but this warrants a mention, by all gods big and small: a perfect 100 on my computability exam. Score!

I love the smell of just-washed floors. I should induce said smell more often. That is all.

… when you look at via82cxxx.c and barely stop to wonder why a variable is called ‘dumbass'[1]

[1] dmabase…

coworker: a question: …
muli: no idea… let me think for a sec
muli: ok, short answer – …
coworker: (…)
coworker: well, it’s wrong
coworker: your solution sucks 🙂
muli: hey, my solution is worth at least what you paid for it 😉
coworker: it’s worth just as much as I paid for it 🙂