September 2007 Archives

Home Improvement Hell

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Upon signing the Deal and moving into sweet homeChicago, Cpu and I embarked on wholesale improvements to address the many shortcomings of our property.

Not So Smart After All

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I'm not sure who's not so smart - users of Scheme, MIT, or passive windows lusers like yours truely.

While poking around at the MIT open source courses for computer science, I snagged MIT / GNU Scheme for windows. Built with an obscure and possibly irrelevant C++ compiler toolchain for windows, it also manages to somehow redistribute parts of cygwin dll files. This is the worst possible outcome of free software for windows from a philosophy standpoint - a gnu project built for windows without using MinGW, that has to redistribute parts of cygwin along with the binaries as well.

I could punch myself several times over; I haven't been this mad since I uncovered my gnu arch issues.

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