Not sure what I'll do about it. I had problems with my Ameritrade email address being used by stock selling scammers... sent several emails to Ameritrade, and I think it actually was better. That was quite some time ago. I guess that means I should do something about it...

Also, I'm going to try to make more casual posts here, to keep the content fresh. We'll see where this goes.

I'll probably also post a proof of concept Python chess program I wrote, just to try out Python, as well as a Lua version.

I should also start adding more of my example code for things, that I'd been thinking about doing quite a while ago...

If you are doing something like 'mount -o rw,remount /foo' and get a response like 'mount: block device /dev/sda11 is write-protected, mounting read-only', and your syslog says something like 'ext3_abort called.' and 'EXT3-fs error (device sda11): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user'... you are hosed. The only way to resolve it is to reboot. :(

There is a set of flags for the superblock of the filesystem, in the kernel structures, called 's_mount_opt' which can get the 'EXT3_MOUNT_ABORT' flag set, which won't get unset, until reboot.

So, I've switched providers. I'm not particularly pissed off, in the scheme of things, it's unfortunate, but not horrible for me. There are plenty of people who are rightly furious, however....

If you are seeing this, then my transition was successful and here I am.

I've also released a binary version of my "assembly line" game. Found here.

I've also added a whole new section! I don't know about you (of you programmers out there), but I tend to run into quite a bit of stuff I want to understand better, and need to put together some test code to try it out. So, anywhere I go, I always have quite a few "test" directories with code trying out this or that feature of a language or library or whatnot. I decided to share this with the world, so here it is. There will be more coming.

I finally got my pad to a point where it satisfies me. The buttons are very responsive, easy to repair, and look good. See my DDR page for details.

In addition, I'll be adding some stuff about my current project. I'm building some GTA tools. The problems with the current tools is that they are all windows based (of course) and that they are all (or mostly) GUIs. So, I'm building my own set. Even if I don't generally release all the tools, I will at least include REAL documentation about all the file formats, particularly since the stuff that is available sucks.