Wi-Fizzle.com - Putting the fizzle in Wi-Fi since 2005 .. (yes, this was a poor choice for a domain name)
Posted by dandriff on Friday January 22, 2010@01:42PM
Posted by dandriff on Monday January 18, 2010@09:23AM

Handbrake has quite the following!

They're not incompetent programmers..no they just drop features like DivX/XviD encoding because nobody uses those codecs anymore! Er, at least they shouldn't be!</sarcasm>

tags: open source, oss


Posted by dandriff on Monday January 11, 2010@02:29PM

I think <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/shake-shack-new-york-2">this was interesting take on the experience</a> of eating at Shake Shack:

"This scene from Pulp Fiction was playing out in my mind as I walked away from the shack with my order in hand. I was trying to figure out why a double cheeseburger, fries and a shake just cost me $15. Ah - it was the $5 milkshake (actually I think it was more like $5.95). I don't know if it was worth $5.95 but it was pretty fucking good."

For the lulz.


Posted by dandriff on Friday January 08, 2010@04:16PM

In 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan's license plate reads "ICU81MI".

I was wondering what this meant, and was able to find:
ICU81MI: Tracy Jordan's Inscrutable Vanity License Plate

"I see you, 81 me." That's a rap lyric, I think (81 is a sexual position).

as well as:

"I see you ate one, am I?", according to the closed captioning. The joke is that Tracy thinks this is funny, but the message doesn't even make sense.

from here

happy new year, btw!


Posted by dandriff on Wednesday November 11, 2009@02:02PM

Psyco v2 is available from http://codespeak.net/svn/psyco/v2/dist/. So far, so good.

wifi@thespian:~wi-fizzle.com/public_html/deps> svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/psyco/v2/dist/ psyco-v2
Checked out revision 69515.

wifi@thespian:~wi-fizzle.com/public_html/deps> cd psyco-v2/
wifi@thespian:~wi-fizzle.com/public_html/deps/psyco-v2> python setup.py build
PROCESSOR = 'ivm'
Copying c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i.default -> c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i
Copying c/ivm/prolog/insns-threaded.i.default -> c/ivm/prolog/insns-threaded.i
Copying c/ivm/prolog/insns-switch.i.default -> c/ivm/prolog/insns-switch.i
Copying c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen.i.default -> c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen.i
Copying c/ivm/prolog/mode_combine.pl.default -> c/ivm/prolog/mode_combine.pl
Copying c/ivm/prolog/insns-table.py.default -> c/ivm/prolog/insns-table.py
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
copying py-support/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
copying py-support/core.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
copying py-support/kdictproxy.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
copying py-support/logger.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
copying py-support/profiler.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
copying py-support/builtin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
copying py-support/support.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
copying py-support/clibrary.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
copying py-support/classes.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/psyco
running build_ext
building 'psyco._psyco' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/c
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/c/Python
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/c/Objects
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/c/Modules
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/c/ivm
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -Ic/ivm -Ic -I/usr/local/include/python2.6 -c c/dispatcher.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/c/dispatcher.o
In file included from c/dispatcher.h:9,
                 from c/dispatcher.c:1:
c/vcompiler.h: In function 'PsyObject_New':
c/vcompiler.h:745: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
c/vcompiler.h: In function 'PsyObject_Resize':
c/vcompiler.h:756: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
In file included from c/dispatcher.h:11,
                 from c/dispatcher.c:1:
c/codegen.h:14:3: error: #error "-----------------------------------------------------"
c/codegen.h:15:3: error: #error "Sorry, non-32-bit platforms are not supported at all."
c/codegen.h:16:3: error: #error "You may try with a Python compiled in 32-bit         "
c/codegen.h:17:3: error: #error "compatibility mode.  Note that Psyco will probably   "
c/codegen.h:18:3: error: #error "never support non-32-bit platforms, as it is no      "
c/codegen.h:19:3: error: #error "longer actively developed.  Instead, the PyPy group  "
c/codegen.h:20:3: error: #error "plans to replace it with a more flexible and easily  "
c/codegen.h:21:3: error: #error "retargettable Psyco-for-PyPy during the year 2006.   "
c/codegen.h:22:3: error: #error "See http://codespeak.net/pypy/                       "
c/codegen.h:23:3: error: #error "-----------------------------------------------------"
In file included from c/ivm/ivm-insns.h:58,
                 from c/ivm/idispatcher.h:11,
                 from c/dispatcher.c:7:
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i: At top level:
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:25: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:27: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:29: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:31: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:33: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:35: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:38: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:40: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:44: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:46: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:48: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:50: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:52: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:54: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:61: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:64: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:68: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:71: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:73: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:75: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:77: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:79: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:81: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:83: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:85: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:87: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/ivm/prolog/insns-igen-h.i:89: error: syntax error before 'code_t'
c/dispatcher.c: In function 'fz_internal_copy':
c/dispatcher.c:127: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
c/dispatcher.c: In function 'fz_compress':
c/dispatcher.c:229: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
c/dispatcher.c:235: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Whoops! I forgot about that 32-bit-only/non-64-bit aspect of Psyco. Oh well :) most of my computers aren't even that fancy anyways!


Posted by dandriff on Sunday November 08, 2009@01:52PM

Querying the sometimes seemingly all-knowing GOOG for define: capillary attraction yields:

Capillary action, capillarity, capillary motion, or wicking refers to two phenomena:

  1. The movement of liquids in thin tubes
  2. The flow of liquids ...

as per wikipedia, which we all know and agree not to be authoritative, but it's just so easy and.. "there".

what is the world coming to.

:s


Posted by dandriff on Monday October 26, 2009@09:49AM

The Lonely Island I'm On A Boat (ft. T-Pain) - Album Version /HD/, easily the funniest youtube I've seen in awhile. And the production quality is higher than most "real" rap videos I've ever seen. Actually, on second though, the music is better too..wow.

(Read the full article if you want the lyrics, too ;) (Warning, there are a lot of F-bombs..)


Posted by dandriff on Monday October 26, 2009@09:47AM

Long Delayed Echoes, or LDE for short are an interesting phenomenon.

Long delayed echoes (LDEs) are radio echoes which return to the sender
several seconds after a radio transmission has occurred. Delays of longer
than 2.7 seconds are considered LDEs.


Posted by dandriff on Monday October 26, 2009@09:45AM
Posted by dandriff on Monday October 19, 2009@10:52PM

mythbusters "diesel diaries" wtf?! Incredibly LAME. Sellouts.


Posted by dandriff on Monday October 19, 2009@03:24PM

A generous human being has gone to the trouble of making psyco for python 2.6 available (it even has an installer. woot.) - Psyco for Python2.6 on Windows (32-bit) Installer.


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