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MetaFilter Special Edition: AIDS and HIV

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 22:08 (permalink)

AaronSw: Part of Link and Think for World AIDS Day
AaronSw: Link and Think

SNAX: A Finder replacement for Mac OS X

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 20:07 (permalink)

uServ - A P2P (peer-to-peer) Web Hosting/File Sharing System

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 18:41 (permalink)

AaronSw: via Dave

Open Letter to Sal Soghoian: Please support OSA in AppleScript Studio

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 18:37 (permalink)

Robb Beal Presents: People Dock

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 17:10 (permalink)

AaronSw: Warning: large graphics
AaronSw: Robb is also hosting a Zope get-together in DC.
AaronSw: David McCusker recommended Finite and Infinite Games, which Robb enjoyed and gave it to me for my birthday this year. I just finished it last night. The start and end was good, the middle less so.
AaronSw: Robb Beal is looking for a job these days.

Instructions for Python Extensions with GCC/mingw32

posted by sbp at 2001-12-02 16:57 (permalink)

Artificial Intelligence in Python

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 16:53 (permalink)

Feel My Pain

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 16:08 (permalink)

AaronSw: I'm an @Home victim. For years I've had high-speed Internet: ISDN, DSL, Cable. Now I'm back to dialup. It feels like life in sloooow moootion.
AaronSw: According to their press release we should be moved in the next 2-10 days. Oregon and Vancouver were the first to be moved. If I'm reading their list right, we should be next (Chicago).
AaronSw: The guys on tech support sound like robots. "Your service will be up and running soon" they say. How soon? "You will receive a call with more information." Can you give me a ballpark estimate? "Your service will be up and running soon."

Python Warts

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 05:16 (permalink)

AaronSw: I like how all of these are being fixed. ;-)

CWM 1.32

posted by sbp at 2001-12-02 05:02 (permalink)

sbp: $Id: cwm.py,v 1.32 2001/04/05 21:33:55 timbl Exp $
sbp: Scary stuff!
AaronSw: What's so scary?
sbp: Heh, heh, heh
sbp: Llyn is pretty much the same

RDF Lint

posted by sbp at 2001-12-02 04:28 (permalink)

sbp: These are basically a set of Notation3 rules files that come to a load of deductions based upon the data in some RDF files, and a filter file that can then find inconsistencies.

OSA Python Available!

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 02:55 (permalink)

AaronSw: Just email Bill Fancher (email address above -- take out the obvious spam blocking bit) and ask him for it.
AaronSw: A Python OSA (Open Scripting Architecture plugin) allows you to script your Macintosh from Python. So you can have it automatically do things like check your mail, grab photos from your camera, build a webpage, create maps of the US based on temperature data from a Web service...

Resource Re-Discovery: Personal resource storage and retrieval on the WorldWideWeb

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-02 00:03 (permalink)

AaronSw: via mnot

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