Chris Garrod
mailto:cc2.9.cspamgarrod@mamber.net, Chris Garrod is a retired geek, one of TheHumbleProgrammers, and was the Minister of Networks at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics http://igpp.ucsd.edu/ He wandered in here in late March of Y2K and after he CorrectedTypos successfully, he became hooked on wiki. Later that year, the OperatingSystem PlanNineFromBellLabs was released as OpenSource! Both vie for his attention. Plan9 often gets the lion's share.
- several of the http://ckg.ucsd.edu/ links below are BrokenLinks due to some conflicts at my former workplace.
Resolution is still not on schedule. Chris is working to resolve both conflicts.
If you haven't looked at ExtremeProgrammingRoadmap yet, you haven't learned why most of us are here. It may have kept me from many of my (more than) tangential pages that are not as extreme.
These are some useful BookMarks for ChrisGarrod - I keep them here because c2.com is the shortest URL I can remember.
- TitleSearch [Search] or FullSearch [Fullsearch]
- GoLanguage -- a new fast compiling language from RobPike now at Google
- CommandLineHistory DataMining CategoryDataMining
- GuiUnitTesting with ProjectSikuli
- what's unread in my InBox http://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#search/l%3Ainbox+l%3Aunread
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChrisGarrod
- http://c2.com/cgi/quickChanges?days=4 I became a QuickChangesJunkie, but not every day. I should look at RecentChanges to make sure my UserName is set. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?edit=ChrisGarrod I should keep my page more up to date at this URL. 20130601 just found http://c2.com/cgi/RecentChanges?days=3 again.
- http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?TodaysPage#bottom is what I'm doing today -- my wiki based on code from this wiki since 20000405 -- see my RcsLog http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?RcsLogWiki
- http://syswiki.ucsd.edu/index.php/Special:Contributions/Garrod%40ucsd.edu at work I contribute to a wiki for system administrators
- news:comp.os.plan9 -- PlanNineFromBellLabs is another OpenSource OperatingSystem from the InventorsOfUnix et alia
- http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/ The Plan9 folks built their own wiki! I think the Plan9 folks are excellent ExtremeProgrammers - I am pleased that they reinvented the wiki for themselves
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chris I edit the wikipedia and translate pages into Swedish -- They awarded me my TenYear pin last spring.
- http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ChrisG and at the WikiCommons:
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ChrisGarrod
- I recently became LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisgarrod
- http://del.icio.us/ckg Another place to ShareBookmarks
- http://ucsd.facebook.com/profile.php?id=570801623 20071009 I joined FaceBook and suddenly had 51 friends
- http://ironphoenix.org/cgi-bin/scrabble.pl My wife and I have become hooked on the http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?ScrabbleChallenge, and play almost every twelve hours
- http://chris.dyndns-wiki.com/ a new URL I'm trying to put my wiki back on line DateStamp 20120503
- http://m.ucsd.edu a mobile app to bookmark
- http://www.sccoos.org/data/piers/ the beach where I BodySurf and PlayVolleyball
I once resurrected my wiki from a disastrous deletion by a now retired CowOrker. Most of MyWiki came back online at http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod, but then I was laid off into retirement, and still lack a website that is online all the time.
- My wiki's most recent upgrade is that it now does TabDelimitedTables,
simply by treating every line with tabs in it to be part of a table. If a line has the same number of tabs, it's part of the same table. Look at http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?MacMagic, which is the raw /usr/share/file/magic from MacOsX 10.4.10, I did no massaging at all, it's sprinkled with tables and other stuff that ought to look better with a
but did not need it.
Other manufactured tables are at: http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?SansNetBlock or
http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?EarthQuakes
or http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?RsyncSummaryMonday
Other places where he has been (noted here so we can FixYourWiki or Our Wiki - That's fixed like a car, not fixed like a cat ;-)
- SpacesBetweenWords
- They aren't there in WikiWords -- ZenKoan
- OperatingSystems
- Why do they have to keep getting bigger? 9grid at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/9grid/index.html
- PlanNineFromBellLabs
- OpenSource complete download including binaries for the x86 is only 65Mbytes! Check out the new simpler security model: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/auth.html It has been completely ReFactored
- InfernoDevelopers
- The InventorsOfUnix went on to invent Plan9, and Inferno, and now some are at Google
- GnuMake
- My most powerful assistant is invoked by cron dozens of times every day
- WhatIsRefactoring
- a wonderful hint from the wiki
- HtmlTables
- TabDelimitedTables are the simplest objects understood by both man and machine - Of course, machines understand nothing but sometimes they do the right thing anyway.
- HaiKu
- I have contributed occasionally, but it's probably not worth the click
- KeyboardClaws
- A compendium of those things like CtrlAltDelete
---- Book List: See BookShelved: http://bookshelved.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ChrisGarrod
- ISBN: 978-0-06-170971-5: WhatWouldGoogleDo by JeffJarvis
- everything by Steig Larson Girl with the DragonTattoo, ...
- ISBN: 0-201-83595-9: The MythicalManMonth 20th anniversary edition (1995)
- ISBN: 1-57398-013-7: LionsCommentary on Unix 6th Edition -- Loved it -- from the days back when Real Unix was OpenSource
- ISBN:0-13-937681-X: TheUnixProgrammingEnvironment
- ISBN:0-201-61586-X: ThePracticeOfProgramming
- isbn:0-201-07981-x: TheAwkProgrammingLanguage one of the SkinnyBooks
- isbn:0-9538701-6-2: the PlanNine 3rd Edition documentation set
- isbn:0-13-938622-x: Unix Relational Database Management
- ISBN:0-131-42901-9: EricRaymond: TheArtOfUnixProgramming
I have invited the following people to c2.com's wiki:
WelcomeVisitors JacobCohen EricScott HalSkelly RobertBullard StevePiper AllanSauter DrewSchaffner DavidSmith RobertMartineau KevinWulff BrentGilmore
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MarkKessler
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ChristineCampbell RalphLewin
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DonGarrod
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NormanBarth
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WmSeffens
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CrispinHollinshead
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PatrickRusso
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PeterShearer
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MikeSanford 20131117 I spoke with him today.
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DavisThomsen
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WayneChen
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RobertParker RobNewman
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KentLindquist
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DebiKilb
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SteveWandel
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MikeMcClune
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KristofferWalker
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EvBingham
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DavisThomsen
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SofiaAkber
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StuartBorthwick
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AdrienArnulf
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EthanSoutarRau
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PaulPanarese
You may wonder what the cryptic looking numbers above are. It's a pattern I have been using since the late 1990s, and with it I am y10k compliant! See http://ckg.ucsd.edu/~garrod/y10k/ -- BrokenLink
I prefer this format over ISO 8601:1988 since it has less punctuation, and can be parsed as a single number: 20061005.22070807 especially in a 64 bit environment.
I have designed a new pattern, which is as uniquely recognizable as my DateStamps above: see if you can guess what this is: 32.82541nw117.22279 ??
Not a bad pattern at all. It is a geographic coordinate, so precise that I was able to determine the precise location to be a home of an identifiable married couple. The Internet does not provide much privacy.
My wife probably thinks that it's too precise. Don't tell her. She surfs elsewhere.
Your comments are welcomed and occasionally responded to: WikiMailBox
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I did a bunch of refactoring - or just turning blue of DateAndDarwen -- I haven't read them yet, I'm just getting ready to. Other comments are welcome. My refactoring fingers are tyros.
- /2/2007 = 0.001993
- -2-07 = -1
- -2-2007 = -2001
With those delimiters, computers DoTheMath. 20070802.2110 ckg
- : 8-8-2007=2000 (Of y2k fame) 8-8-07=-7 8-8/7=0 8/8/2007=0.0004982
Tonight JamesGosling lamented the CalendarApi and the complexities that historians demand. I think my DateStamps are good enough for anything in the UnixEpoch and perhaps another API needs to be invented.
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Computers do the math when they see delimiters like - and /
- /17/07 = 0.067227
- /17/2007 = 0.0002344
- -17-07 = -16
- -17-2007 = -2016
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another example
- /19/2008 = 0.0000262
- -19-08 = -27
- -19-2008 = -2026
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another example
- /9/2008 = .0001106
- -9-2008 = -2015
- /9/08 = 0.02777777... -- isn't it curious that many often keep the leading zero on the year?
- -9-08 = -15
- Do the math: just home from Europe: 28/3=9.33333..... 3/28=0.1071428...
- BeijingOlympics 8/8/08=0.125 8-8-08=-8 8/8/2008=0.000498
- Convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade with these 9/5=1.8 5/9=0.55...
- -11-07=1990
- /11/7=26.078
- /7/08=0.1964..
- /11/08=0.09090909... a repeating decimal and a palindromic date if you drop the 0
- /1/30 = 66.966... 2009-01-30 = 1978
- /07/01 = 287 2009-07-01 = 2001 ArthurC.Clarke isn't that a spooky thing for it to be?
- /11/26 = 7.024 2009-11-26 = 1972 Happy Thanksgiving
- /12/09 = 18.6 = 2009/09/12
- /7/4 = 71.79 2010-7-4 = 1999 7/4/10 = 0.175
- = 2^5 * 13 * 211 * 229
July2010 has 4 PrimeDays: 20100709 20100713 20100719 and 20100721
Let's stop letting computers do the math when that's not what we intend. It is a pattern -- YyyyMmDd.HhMmSs: a point in NonRelativisticTime -- after all, and that's why many of us came here. Or what the rest of us are learning still...
- I have a new home computer!
Moby replaces Minnie.
- /10/23 = 15.4846
From another pattern: 33nw117 -- LatLon
- 0833 AshevilleNorthCarolina
- 094 new wireless network connection being rerouted and built at home.
- the new net works, allowing PlanNineFromBellLabs to run the AbacoBrowser, but it cannot seem to post to this wiki.
- 1317 LaJollaLibrary
- ChrisGarrod tried to put this into HelloWorldInManyProgrammingLanguages, but that page kept being reverted by computing-technology.derby.ac.uk. What a deterrent to editing. In my ten years at this wiki, this is the first time my changes have been attacked by a robot.
RecentChanges discourages me from participation here. HelloWorld in Scala is discussed in several steps on this page: http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html
println("Hello, world, from a script!")
Chris, the spoofing is so widespread that most regulars don't use the UserName at all. Thank you for the contribution on CliffordAlgebra. I try very hard to concentrate on making some contribution here and ignore as much as possible of the noise. -- JohnFletcher
Chris, I have put your contribution of HelloWorld for ScalaLanguage back into HelloWorldInManyProgrammingLanguages in the hope that it will stay there this time. I have not signed it - you may care to do so. My interest in ScalaLanguage has been aroused by the new page DeprecatingTheObserverPattern. -- JohnFletcher
Your comments are welcome here, please add them near the bottom. Correct spelling everywhere. Please annotate your comments with your RealNamesPlease and a DateStamp YyyyMmDd, Thanks!
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- /11/17 = 10.764705
Slash tells the computer to divide.
- -11-17 = 1985
Dash means to subtract.
- Who knew that this DateStamp was a PrimeNumber?
My mother died this morning. Mourning. Move along, these are not the droids you are looking for...
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Dash means subtract:
- -01-13 = 2000
Slash means divide:
- /1/13=154.92
- /13/14=0.0055
- Chris, did You see my question here?: http://wikiindex.org/User_talk:ChrisGarrod --ManorainjanHolzapfel 15.10.2014 (now, what will the computer do with dots? ;-)
- not till today. Looking into it now... Happy Halloween. Dots? First dot represents end of integer, decimal portion continues ... second dot breaks the lexer, ends the number, acts like an end of sentence, and perhaps another integer continues. Your above may lex like: 15.10 and 2014 -- at least you recognized that the 2 was the MostSignificantDigit.
- -10-26 = 1978 that was a good year.
- /10/26 = 7.75...
- /26/2014 = 2e-5
- /26/14 = 0.275