Oliver Steele has an interesting article about "language mavens" vs. "tool mavens".

I've also been reading Hugh Mcleod's blog, as well as the PDF version of his How To Be Creative book. And a lot of the other manifestos at ChangeThis.com are pretty good, also.

In other news, I've "finished" all the South Park work, and our bedroom redecoration is now completed. Both major milestones, as far as I'm concerned.

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This Brian Marick essay is very good, if you dream about revolutionising the world of software development.

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One Eugene Wallingford posts a marvellous summary of Alan Kay's OOPLSA talks. I'm sure there are truly great ideas out there waiting for someone to stretch their mind far enough to conceive them. (IM Smarter seems like a pretty good one, at least from a business standpoint.)

Eugene links to the Exploratorium, which also looks pretty cool. And the Hillside Group, and Brian Marick, and the J language.

And there's a new Paul Graham essay up.

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• Notes on setting up the framebuffer, splash screen etc. here.
• To add to my Windows tweak, notes on swapping Control & Caps Lock in Linux.
• Random configuring X link.

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Well, it looks like one of my TwinMOS 512MB DIMMs is bad. Hey ho. Fortunately I can still limp along on the other two.

I'm configuring my kernel, and checking out the Linux drivers for various things, mainly the NForce2 chipset on my K7NCR18D-Pro motherboard. Notes to self:

• The PCI0680 is a CMD680.
• Notes on NForce2 & Linux, including WOL, here (Arjen Verweij).
• More NForce2 notes here (Johannes Deisenhofer).
• The nforcershq.com forum has a summary of useful links.
• If you want your /boot partition to be /dev/md0, you use LILO. If you want to use GRUB, you don't RAID /boot. [Update: Or not - see here.]

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A little bird informed me that P5 gloves are on sale for the slightly ludicrous price of $12.95. So I've bought a couple more. Now I can try to convert one to a "lefty". Thanks, Luke!

It looks like there's still a little life left in the forums, though. I don't know how much longer they'll be up for.

And there's more! The indefatigable roid has a page listing a surprising range of projects using the P5. A group called Simulus have a page with more useful links and info. And then there's the Yahoo P5 group. Who knew?

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