Comments for Andy Balaam's Blog http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog Four in the morning, still writing Free Software Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:07:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on (Badly wrong) usage statistics for FreeGuide by Andy Balaam’s Blog » Blog Archive » FreeGuide usage stats http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2007/07/31/badly-wrong-usage-statistics-for-freeguide/comment-page-1/#comment-2804 Andy Balaam’s Blog » Blog Archive » FreeGuide usage stats Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:07:49 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=76#comment-2804 [...] long time ago I mentioned I’d added some (opt-in) usage tracking for FreeGuide. Here are the latest stats. I think they [...] [...] long time ago I mentioned I’d added some (opt-in) usage tracking for FreeGuide. Here are the latest stats. I think they [...]

]]> Comment on Fixing the vertical panel window list on Ubuntu Hardy by Andy Balaam’s Blog » Blog Archive » Reclaiming desktop space with Ubuntu’s window-picker-applet http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2008/12/10/fixing-the-vertical-panel-window-list-on-ubuntu-hardy/comment-page-1/#comment-2601 Andy Balaam’s Blog » Blog Archive » Reclaiming desktop space with Ubuntu’s window-picker-applet Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:15:20 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=112#comment-2601 [...] a vertical task bar on the left and launcher buttons across the top. I’ve struggled with a long-standing bug with using a vertical panel, and I’ve sacrificed quite a lot of screen space to make enough room to see the window [...] [...] a vertical task bar on the left and launcher buttons across the top. I’ve struggled with a long-standing bug with using a vertical panel, and I’ve sacrificed quite a lot of screen space to make enough room to see the window [...]

]]> Comment on Switching workspace in GNOME via the command line by how to change workspace by command line - Page 2 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2011/03/04/switching-workspace-in-gnome-via-the-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-2449 how to change workspace by command line - Page 2 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:18:28 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=426#comment-2449 [...] This might be helpful - it is a script to switch workspace using the command line: http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog...-command-line/ [...] [...] This might be helpful – it is a script to switch workspace using the command line: http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog…-command-line/ [...]

]]> Comment on Fixing the vertical panel window list on Ubuntu Hardy by Dylan http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2008/12/10/fixing-the-vertical-panel-window-list-on-ubuntu-hardy/comment-page-1/#comment-2356 Dylan Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:38:08 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=112#comment-2356 does anyone have an updated patch for the latest gnome-panels? I can't get it working... does anyone have an updated patch for the latest gnome-panels? I can’t get it working…

]]> Comment on Ubuntu Lucid upgrade – a catalogue of disaster and pain by Andy Balaam http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2010/05/14/ubuntu-lucid-upgrade-a-catalogue-of-disaster-and-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-2064 Andy Balaam Mon, 24 May 2010 19:49:09 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=288#comment-2064 Thanks to a post by Will McGugan, I fixed the problems I was having with the flash plugin failing and losing sound: http://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/2010/5/2/no-audio-in-flash-on-ubuntu-1004/ (Summary: rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so) Thanks to a post by Will McGugan, I fixed the problems I was having with the flash plugin failing and losing sound: http://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/2010/5/2/no-audio-in-flash-on-ubuntu-1004/

(Summary: rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so)

]]> Comment on Ubuntu Lucid upgrade – a catalogue of disaster and pain by Andy Balaam http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2010/05/14/ubuntu-lucid-upgrade-a-catalogue-of-disaster-and-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-2009 Andy Balaam Mon, 17 May 2010 19:04:42 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=288#comment-2009 Hi Gerry, good luck with the recovery. I wonder whether some kind of dependency problem caused my crash. By the time I got back to it it was just frozen solid. Hi Gerry, good luck with the recovery. I wonder whether some kind of dependency problem caused my crash. By the time I got back to it it was just frozen solid.

]]> Comment on Ubuntu Lucid upgrade – a catalogue of disaster and pain by Gerry http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2010/05/14/ubuntu-lucid-upgrade-a-catalogue-of-disaster-and-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-2008 Gerry Mon, 17 May 2010 17:58:40 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=288#comment-2008 Wish I'd read this before, instead of later. My Karmic laptop upgrade went fine. But my desktop from Hardy to Lucid... enough dpkg dependency errors that the system crashed hard. Unless I find some shortcut, it'll have to be rebuilt. It's still ext3 and grub is intact and the old images, but it apparently changed enough that it's a mess. They supplied no clue on how to approach fixing this. The abort requested I report a but against upgrade-manager, but launchpad doesn't have that package. And this one's my work machine for app development, so it's pretty loaded. Looks like smash and burn's the only way, so I'm downloading lucid to a flash drive. At least the drives can still be mounted:-) Wish I’d read this before, instead of later. My Karmic laptop upgrade went fine. But my desktop from Hardy to Lucid… enough dpkg dependency errors that the system crashed hard. Unless I find some shortcut, it’ll have to be rebuilt. It’s still ext3 and grub is intact and the old images, but it apparently changed enough that it’s a mess. They supplied no clue on how to approach fixing this. The abort requested I report a but against upgrade-manager, but launchpad doesn’t have that package. And this one’s my work machine for app development, so it’s pretty loaded.

Looks like smash and burn’s the only way, so I’m downloading lucid to a flash drive. At least the drives can still be mounted:-)

]]> Comment on NNDB 0.1 by Andy Balaam http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2009/10/23/nndb-0-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1981 Andy Balaam Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:15:46 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=248#comment-1981 Hi, I haven't looked at MPL yet - I only discovered it recently. Fusion also sounds very interesting - thanks! By the way, I submitted my code and it was accepted into Loki: http://loki-lib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/loki-lib/trunk/include/loki/ForEachType.h?view=markup Hi, I haven’t looked at MPL yet – I only discovered it recently. Fusion also sounds very interesting – thanks!

By the way, I submitted my code and it was accepted into Loki: http://loki-lib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/loki-lib/trunk/include/loki/ForEachType.h?view=markup

]]> Comment on NNDB 0.1 by Anonymous http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2009/10/23/nndb-0-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1979 Anonymous Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:46:19 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=248#comment-1979 You mention in your article that you need TypelistForEach, which (if I understood correctly), doesn't exist in Loki yet; did you have a look at Boost.MPL (MetaProgramming Library)? It proposes a huge set of type containers along with several algorithms to operate on them at compile-time, such as transform, sort, fold and so on. You could also check out Boost.Fusion, a library making the link between pure compile-time computations (cf. MPL) and pure runtime computations (cf. STL). It contains several heterogeneous containers that can be manipulated either at compile-time with metafunctions or at runtime with "classic" functions. You mention in your article that you need TypelistForEach, which (if I understood correctly), doesn’t exist in Loki yet; did you have a look at Boost.MPL (MetaProgramming Library)? It proposes a huge set of type containers along with several algorithms to operate on them at compile-time, such as transform, sort, fold and so on.

You could also check out Boost.Fusion, a library making the link between pure compile-time computations (cf. MPL) and pure runtime computations (cf. STL). It contains several heterogeneous containers that can be manipulated either at compile-time with metafunctions or at runtime with “classic” functions.

]]> Comment on NNDB’s Not a Database by Andy Balaam http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2009/10/10/nndbs-not-a-database/comment-page-1/#comment-1977 Andy Balaam Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:54:49 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=241#comment-1977 Thanks Guillaume - really interesting projects, and further really interesting links at the bottom of the second one. I knew someone else must have done something like this before... In self-augmenting language it is possible to build something like this on top of a real database, which I think would be very difficult in C++. I have been having thoughts about what my ideal language would be. Recently I have been wondering about whether it's possible to create a self-augmenting language that is also compiled in a traditional way, and type-safe in the C++ sense. Essentially I want to be able to extend the C++ compiler at compile time. Thanks Guillaume – really interesting projects, and further really interesting links at the bottom of the second one. I knew someone else must have done something like this before…

In self-augmenting language it is possible to build something like this on top of a real database, which I think would be very difficult in C++.

I have been having thoughts about what my ideal language would be. Recently I have been wondering about whether it’s possible to create a self-augmenting language that is also compiled in a traditional way, and type-safe in the C++ sense. Essentially I want to be able to extend the C++ compiler at compile time.

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