Only the first and last letters of a word need be in the right place

Dec 26

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After my dad showed me an article in the Funny Times about the how the only letters that really matter when we read are the first and last, I thought it would be fun to write a little script to scramble the inner letters of words.

Give it a try here.

Or check out the source here.

Youtube finally caught me

Dec 25

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On December 7th, at San Francisco State’s Opera Workshop performence, I stood in for a baritone who had broken his leg. The girl who sang Papagena, or perhaps her parents, posted this on Youtube.

Fixed the two major problems with the MAME cabinet

Dec 24

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Finally I fixed the last two major flaws with the MAME cabinet!

Problem: The device that connects the arcade buttons to the keyboard port was not recognised as keyboard, and therefore the computer was not listening for input.

Solution: My brother hacked the kernel so that no matter if the keyboard is recognized or not, the computer listens on that port.

Problem: Since my upgrade to Ubuntu Gutsy, xmame would sometimes not reset the resolution when it exited.

Solution: I found the answer here. By adding “; xrandr -s 1024×768″ to the end of the list of options that wahcade passes to xmame, I essentially tell wahcade to run xmame (with my option) and when xmame closes (when I close a game) to reset the resolution with xrandr. So far, it seems to work.

It looks like we are ready for the xmame party just as soon as these holiday’s are over.

Server back up (or so it seems)

Dec 9

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The server that hosts this blog (as well as all my other projects) has had a severe problem ever since I upgraded to Gutsy several weeks ago. It would crash after running for about a day or so. While I still don’t know what the actual problem was, my brother and I were able to solve the problem by downgrading to the previous version of the linux kernel. It now has uptime of over three days, which seems to indicate that the problem has been fixed.