I ordered PAIP today. Good computer books are so expensive. It hurts me to spend $80 on a book. But there are many worse ways to spend $80 than on something which contains so much knowledge, I guess. I got a $25 gift card for a book store for Christmas, so […]

In my oh-so-neverending quest to learn Lisp and make a webpage using it, today I actually bothered trying to install SBCL on my server, which is a VPS running Debian.
Failure. I got errors like this:
mmap: Cannot allocate memory
ensure_space: failed to validate 536870912 bytes at 0×09000000
(hint: Try “ulimit -a”; maybe you should increase memory limits.)
This […]

Recently I switched one of my websites to a VPS server.  It’s so much better than shared hosting.  Even if I do still share a physical machine with N other people, as a VPS I have full root access which makes things much better.
I made the mistake of trying “managed” hosting first, which means the […]

I’ve made some fairly significant changes to my blog’s layout. Most importantly, I’ve added a cow’s bum. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: You simply can’t go wrong with cow-based web site layouts. I still have a bit more work to do (for another day) but I think it […]

So scrapped FreeBSD on my secondary computer. I figured I don’t need to play with yet another source-based OS. I was a bit confused by the odd mixture of packages I had to compile myself, and packages I could install in binary form. There were also a large number of tools that […]