http://www.dr1ver.net Steinn Eldjarn Sigurdarson on tech, tel, digital freedom and possibly his life Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:22:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Nordic Perl Workshop which was supposed to go ahead this weekend is now dying a slow and painful death as Eyjafjallajökull continues to spew it's farts all over our skies, and the erratic yoyo-ish opening and closing of Keflavík airport puts more gray hairs on my head every day. We ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=142 Recently at work I was porting some code from HP-UX to Linux, and ran into a problem. The code in question belonged to a service which listens on a socket, and forks a child to handle each incoming request. The children among other things execute a sub-process using system(), and ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=139 The Google Chrome flashblock extension is a must-have addition for users intending to browse the web in peace and safety from evil flash advertisements and other flash critters which infest websites in ever greater numbers. Especially for us Linux users who are forced to use the notably weak Linux version ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=136 I have been a twitter user since June 2008 (not particularly long.. I admit), but I just didn't really see the point of having a 140char blog, unless designed around sms's or something. In any case, when suddenly everyone around me was using twitter I figured "Hey, I'll go use ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=128 I'm thinking that the mobile/contextual theme I've been developing at work could be the starting point for some pretty amazing improvements. The number one problem I always have when developing stuff for Moodle is that people want to squeeze things in where they don't "belong" according to the Moodle design (afaict). ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=127 This took me like 10 minutes to get right. Just because of the slight differences between vim's regexp and perl's. %s/context\["\([a-z]*\)"\]/context->\1/ However I need to this often when working with php, as more and more things seem to return stdClass objects (such as php5's built-in json functions) and I always seem to ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=125 These last few weeks have been eventful, and not always in a good way. I will break my habit of being very topical and not-so personal here, in order to coherently explain to myself and others how the last few weeks have been. On June 19th, I wrote my last blogpost, ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=122 This morning, radio journalist Sigurður G. Tómasson of Útvarp Saga, had as a guest an Icelandic economist and assistant professor of economy at Reykjavík University, Ólafur Ísleifsson. They discussed the commitments of the new ICESAVE agreement entered into by the Icelandic government. Pundits are expressing extreme concern over the agreement's ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=118 I heard an interesting thing today, from an Icelandic economist, who recently joined the parliament. The Icelandic debts due to Icesave and other failed banks, valued at $5.8 billion, would be a huge burden on the Icelandic economy -- paying these debts would require several years of reduced infrastructure (healthcare, ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=102 A small update in reference to this, a post I wrote earlier about upgrading my WordPress, and also a javascript method to safely check if a js library has already been loaded in a parent system of a widget or module. I don't know about you guys, but in my case, ... http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=97