Alrighty, FastRI is a sweet program written by Mauricio Fernandez (of eigenclass.org, which is down currently for some reason) for doing RI (Ruby Documentation) lookups very quickly, it supports doing all sorts of neat things like running a DRb server for lookups and other cool things Anyway, if you found this, you probably don’t want to […]
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of coding around an awesome database called Hyper Estraier, which allows me to create large inverted-index databases to search over very quickly. I have also been playing around with the new Ruby RC release for version 1.9.1. In an effort to get some current code running, I found that […]
Just a short post, working through some of the modules I received, I ran into the inav module. Turns out that inavd doesn’t compile very nicely on FreeBSD, so I patched it. Previously when trying to compile you get: c++ -ggdb -g3 -D INAV_VERSION= -c sniffer.cpp In file included from sniffer.cpp:34: /usr/include/netinet/ip.h:162: error: ‘n_long’ does […]
Screen in an amazing tool. The latest version from CVS adds an amazing feature to allow you to split screens vertically (previously you could only split horizontally), which is extremely nice if you have a widescreen monitor. The only problem is that the patch isn’t yet included in MacPorts or Fink for this feature. Here’s how […]