http://blog.voidscope.com/wordpress Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:59:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In between trying to get work done, I've been mulling over interesting aircraft configurations (canard vs tandem vs conventional) that I would use to design and build a light aircraft with a very specific mission that I'll write about some other time. Many are familiar with the Hughes Spruce Goose, but ... http://blog.voidscope.com/wordpress/2008/06/24/old-obscure-flying-boat-concept/ Working with Ruby occasionally requires the use of irb, the interactive Ruby shell. It's a terrific tool for quickly exploring new things (in my case, using Ruby to experiment with using sendkeys via the Windows Script Host to automate an awkard windows app). I'm using Cygwin to do the windows portion ... http://blog.voidscope.com/wordpress/2008/06/21/cygwin-irb-and-utility_belt-a-broken-combination/ Well, somewhere along the line after coming back from a two-month stint with work, Debian testing has had an upgrade that caused all four of my Intel i945 family chipset PCs to burn 100% CPU whenever something changed on the screen. It's no fun waiting several seconds to alt-tab between ... http://blog.voidscope.com/wordpress/2008/06/19/debian-testing-and-xorg/