(render-blog Ng Pheng Siong) http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps Just another this here blog thing. 2006-01-01T22:05:31+08:00 OmniBase http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/234 Black box observation: OmniBase depends on the OSProcess package. After upgrading OSProcess, the installed OmniBase appears to be left with what I imagine are dangling pointers. Refresh the OmniBase package.

]]> ngps 2006-01-01T22:05:31+08:00 Smalltalk Server Pages http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/233 In no particular order, in various degrees of deadness and not specific to any particular implementations:

  • SwazooActivePages, part of Swazoo.
  • STT - Smalltalk Templates
  • Squeak Server Pages - dead link
  • VisualWorks SSP, used in James Robertson's Silt blog server.
  • Nori - "a framework for building Seaside applications using templates instead of generating HTML programmatically."
]]> ngps 2005-12-23T11:03:33+08:00 Consolidated? http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/232 Just happened to think of the Python Community Server and Python Desktop Server projects and took a quick look - they seem to be more or less as dead as this blog is. :-)

I wonder if the newer RSS/Atom/whatever feed formats carry a "calling card" header a la user-agent...

]]> ngps 2005-12-21T00:41:11+08:00 Zen Talk http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/231 From squeak-dev, via the Weekly Squeak:

"When you save an image and later restore it you probably consider the objects you see to be the same ones you had before (some text you were halfway through writing, for example). If the image was generated from the system tracer, is a transformed version of some object the same entity you had before?"

]]> ngps 2005-10-04T23:50:02+08:00 No Spam http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/230 Recently I put up a desktop installation of Postfix on a new FreeBSD boxen of mine. As alluded to in the previous entry, my ISP's SMTP relay was rejecting mail from this instance of Postfix.

As it turns out, if Postfix tries to deliver mail immediately, the ISP relay rejects them. But if I set SMTP as a "deferred transport" in Postfix so that the MTA first queues the mail, then the ISP relay accepts the mail when it gets delivered eventually. ;-/

I'm sure there is a logical explanation somewhere... ]]> ngps 2005-06-29T00:20:05+08:00 Paging... http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/229 Paging Doug and Kevin, paging Doug and Kevin...

For some reason, my ISP's "smart" SMTP relay is refusing to relay my mail. When I attempt to deliver my mail to you directly, your SMTP servers are rejecting them... :-/

I'll set up a personal relay somewhere and get the messages to you. Wait a little bit, please. Thanks.]]> ngps 2005-06-27T02:32:47+08:00 ZopeEditManager http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/228 After a long delay, I've finally gotten around to installing Zope's ExternalEditor, nay, ZopeEditManager, the native OSX rendition by Zachary Bir.

I'm back! (He says, yet again...)

]]> ngps 2005-05-14T21:42:51+08:00 X http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/226 I just bought a PowerBook to complement the eMac that I've had for a while. I am going to switch my primary machine from the trusty FreeBSD desktop that I've been running for many years to my PowerBook.

First thing is to get Zope's External Editor to work, so that I may, like, put stuff on this blog now and then more easily. For that I need Tkinter, it seems. For that, I need X. There are, AFAICTATM, Apple's own X-for-Panther (based on some version of XFree86?), XFree86 itself, XDarwin, x.org maybe, and probably some other Xs that I have yet to come across. Fortunately Google points to lots of OSX-related material, so it is just a matter of reading up and digesting the stuff, all from the comfort of the PowerBook itself. ;-)]]> ngps 2005-04-18T23:20:57+08:00 Fink vs Darwinports http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/225 I've had a Mac for a while, but I haven't been the one who was using it. I've just installed OpenMCL and now I need an IDE. The SLIME OSX screenshot is very nice, but the default emacs on my Mac comes up -nw. ;-\

Thusly I'm looking for a windowing Emacs, either an X11 client or, preferably, an Aqua wossnamethingy.

Fink or Darwinports, I wonder? I'm a FreeBSD guy and somehow I just find Linux-style package management a turn-off. Darwinports it is, this means? ]]> ngps 2005-04-08T01:07:05+08:00 Ewe SQLite http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/224 Here is the Ewe interface to SQLite, written by Oskar Swida. The original download site is linked from somewhere inside Ewe's support forum, which is down at the moment; I'm putting this copy up as a convenience. Oskar has indicated that the code is in the public domain.

Enjoy! ]]> ngps 2005-04-06T00:04:18+08:00