Douglas Thrift's Blog: December 2003 Archives

A collection of random thoughts, commentary, and crazed opinions.

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

What Time Is It in Japan?

Tags: reference, time, wonderful

Ha! Now, I know what time it is in Japan and other strange Time Zones, isn't that wonderful?

Spiral staircase.

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1.2 Release Candidate 2

Tags: installer, release, search, software

Now you will die! It's in searchengine/download, if you can't figure out what else to do, I don't know what to say.

Oh, and the installer uses my DT Util NSIS Plugin: DTUtil.zip, which has replaced my other one. In addition to finding out if the installer is on Windows NT the right way, it has a GetArgs function which pushes the command line arguments onto the stack so they can be popped off in order. Spiffy!

Why are you reading this?

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003

NSIS Is Still My Friend

Tags: harry, installer, quote, software

Hooray! I made a plugin for NSIS, aren't I special? If you really must use it, it is CheckNT.zip and it pushes "true" or "false" onto the stack depending on whether the installer is running on NT or not and it does it the right way.

"If you think she's pretty, you should see my slingshot."

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Monday, December 8, 2003

Fun Fun Fun

Tags: fun, insanity, stuff, things

There, now you can find fun on my website!

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Saturday, December 6, 2003

NSIS Is My Friend (Sometimes)

Tags: c++, freebsd, installer, linux, perl, release, search, software, unix, windows

Oh, I just uploaded the Windows installers I made for my Search Engine with NSIS, isn't that just spiffy? Although they are labelled 1.2rc1, the actual Search Engine hasn't changed since 1.2beta (all this stuff is in searchengine/download if you were completely oblivious to this). Being at UCSB I haven't had much time to work on my Search Engine, but I hope to release version 1.2 before the end of December (read first or second week of January). If you haven't looked at 1.2beta, then you don't know that it uses evil GNU Autoconf and a Windows Perl script to generate its makefiles and it has optional OpenSSL support.

If you've read this much and aren't completely confused, I'm also thinking about releasing one of my Top Secret summer projects. It is a Samba auto-mounter for FreeBSD and/or Linux that does stuff automagically and shows off the problems with Linux's smbmount and permissions. It also seems to have permission problems on FreeBSD when mounting shares from XP Home, I'll have to take my main PC home with me to see if it still works ok with XP Pro. It also uses the PStreams library (which is actually a header file with a bunch of inline code), there is a link on my computers page if you're interested.

That is all.

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