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For my own edification and to facilitate the addition of UUIDs to Drupal, I have used SchemaSpy to create an overview of Drupal’s database schema as generated by today’s HEAD.

I have begun my quest to convert Drupal over to using UUIDs instead of IDs so that merging/branching drupal databases will be easier.
The first thing to figure out is how best to generate UUIDs in PHP. The naive pure-php approaches that use rand() have quickly proven to be non-viable (generating 10 of them hasn’t completed after […]

So I’m working on a steampunk-ish game that occurs in a gas giant - usual “colonization effort gone bad, descendants with primitive tech” sort of situation, except these folk actually have to stay afloat lest they be crushed to death by the pressure.

Humans can live at up to 60bar for at least a week; presumably, […]

I’m very spoiled by the virtual interface feature of Linux, and routinely have quite a few IP addresses associated with one virtual interface.
I’m building a cluster now, where all the machines have only private interfaces save one; obviously, I’d like the internal machines to be able to do their own updating, etc.
So I need to put in […]

so ok, if I typo and do “aptitude uipdate”, should it not know what I mean?
In the case that arguments or their values have a finite set of valid inputs, it seems like one could readily have the correct version printed as a “did you mean this? if so, press enter, if not, press n” instead […]

If you have an OS X mac, it would be delightful of you to download this little simplistic “game” I wrote and tell me if it is playable for you. Update: The first version I uploaded was Intel-only. The current version is Universal, but that makes it 11mb, so I also created an intel-only […]

I’ve been lately thinking about graphs that have no matrix. An example of a matrix graph is the traditional planar coordinate plane you’re probably familiar with: the x,y graph where each element (vertex, in graph terminology) has an identity of two real numbers identifying its coordinate. Subsequently, to make this a graph, we draw lines […]