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I was about to educate a co-worker on some of the better practices to follow while communicating on the Internet, and being the generous chap that I am, decided to share these invaluable nuggets of my infinite wisdom with you lot. So, here goes:

1. Format: Never send e-mails in HTML format. Always use plain-text only.
2. Subject: Always use a descriptive subject line. Subject lines such as "Hi" and "Please help" will get your behind flamed.

This is a demo of a Flash 3D library. Pretty neat stuff, for Flash.

I saw Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer last night, and boy did it suck! I've not really been much of a fan of either series - FF4 or Silver Surfer, but nevertheless, I thought this might be interesting as I was under the impression that this was the first instance of a crossover. Apparently, this is not the case.

I suck at regex. But the fact that Eclipse leaves trailing whitespace everywhere is pretty fucking annoying. Although, this will apparently be solved in 3.3, that's still a month or so away (IIRC). Anyways, while I normally just use a   $ regex search (whitespace switches don't like working in Eclipse's find dialog) to repeatedly weed out the bastards, today, I came across a more robust expression. Here goes:

Find: [\t ]+(?:(\n)|$)

Today's Song Of The Day is Ayreon's Valley of the Queens, a breathtakingly beautiful vocal-centric piece. A quiet song, its beauty lies in the harmonies provided by the wonderful Anneke van Giersbergen coupled with the poignant lyrics which paint a moving picture (I'm a sucker for all things fantasy after all). I'm seriously hooked onto Ayreon at the moment.

The lyrics follow:

My journey's over,
I'm standing on the edge,
And close my eyes
To this world of lies.

Server: Apache 2.0.52 + SVN 1.4.3 + mod_dav_svn enabled. Most repositories also use a bunch of post commit hooks to automate tasks.
Client: Eclipse 3.2.2 + stock subclipse callisto install.

Error message:

commit -m "commit message." files
RA layer request failed
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/repo/path/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: PROPFIND of '/repo/path/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server. (http://example.com)

So, what do you make of the error message in the title? I ran into this while coding in PHP and thought that I must've installed a dodgy version of PHP or might have been h4xx0r3d. But a quick google revealed that PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM represents the :: operator in Hebrew.

Crazy dudes.

The Linksys WMP54G, a wireless adapter that I bought after much (but apparently insufficient) research, is essentially not very Linux friendly after all. The card is detected by Linux as the following:
00:0c.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI

Jacob's Ladder is the quintessential Rush song. Wonderful riff, wailing solos, exciting build-ups, drums that lend an entirely new dimension to the song and so on.

Wonderful, wonderful stuff. I rediscover this song at least once every year and go crazy about it.

I ran into this error earlier today while burning a Data DVD. This was caused because the amount of data being written was too close to the maximum capacity of the DVD. Reducing it by a couple of MB fixed the issue.

Beats me as to why it happens though ...