Thomas J. Webb’s Ecology Blog

This falls squarely in the category of nerdy waste of time, but I just whipped up an anglo-saxon futhoric keymap (for US PC keyboards) for X11/linux. Get it here, save it under “/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc” or the equivalent dir on your box. Then, add “en_futhark Old English Futhark” under the layout section in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst or the equivalent file blah blah. Windows users, simply d/l and install the right file from here. Note that my keyboard is almost identical to their Runic_AS.

I am RETARDED! I spent most of today trying to get this app using OpenAL to work with a manually generated buffer (ie, not using a wave-loading function). I kept on trying to figure out why the damn program wouldn’t run without segfaulting. Finally, only after looking in the sources for ALUT, I realize that I should be using malloc instead of new like some sort of C++ baby.

there’s a bug in magpie, which this site uses to print out content from blogger. at least it’s a bug as far as I’m concerned. basically, it seems to convert the html entities into the actual characters (unless the actual php xml parser classes do this..) and as a result, the example wml file in the post below this one doesn’t appear. stupid!

If you are bored on the train, never fear! Ugly, slow-loading websites on your cell-phone to the rescue! Seriously, kids. You can make a portable version of your website so easily.

Basically, you make the pages (index.wml) and throw them up. Easy, right? Below is a sample wml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<card id="c1" title="Thomas J. Webb" >
        <p>
        <a href="news.wml.php">blog</a>
        </p>
</card>
</wml>

Most webmasters like to put the WAP version of the site in a different subdomain (such as wap.yahoo.com), but I don’t know why they bother. We have a wonderful thing in Apache called content negotiation. Throw everything up there and let the webserver sort it out. First, enable multi-views in httpd.conf:

MultiViews on

Then set the directory index as simply index. This way, the webserver selects from index.html (or index.php or whatever) for regular browsers and index.wml for cell-phone browsers.

DirectoryIndex index

Another higher-performance alternative to MultiViews is to simply use a .var file for the index. See Apache’s documentation for details…

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つまらなくて電車に乗ってる時、つまらないサイトを見られる。楽しいね！まじめに小さいバージョンを作りやすいだよ。

まず、index.wmlを作ってアップロードして。やさしいね。

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<card id="c1" title="Thomas J. Webb" >
        <p>
        <a href="news.wml.php">blog</a>
        </p>
</card>
</wml>

ウェブマスタはほとんどサブドメーンを作る。たとえばwap.yahoo.com。でも、何でか分かんねえ。ApacheのContent Negotiationはスーパーである。サーバは頭が言い。まずhttpd.confにコレを入れて。

MultiViews on

すると、始め見るページがindexにさせて。サーバはindex.htmlとindex.wmlの中に決心出来る。

DirectoryIndex index