Wednesday, August 30, 2006

bug in holmes/hulskamp gold engine

find this in scanner_scan() function

if ((== EEOF) || (== nedge)) {
// accept, ignore or invalid token
if (last_accepted != -1
{

and replace with

if ((== EEOF) || (== nedge)) {
if(strlen(parser->lexeme) != last_accepted_size)
    
pinput->nofs -= (strlen(parser->lexeme) - last_accepted_size);
// accept, ignore or invalid token
if (last_accepted != -1)
{

below is some cutdown grammer/input to exercise the bug

bug-replication.zip

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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Review Agent 4.0

So I was a faithful WinAgent 1.9 user for donkeys years, recently I upgraded to 4.0 for a really cheap price prior to its release.

Now its out and I’ve used it for a while…

If your thinking of upgrading, dont!!

I think its a newsreader.. usenet and all that… Whats with this Desks and Folders crap?

If i click on my ‘all folders’ title.. I get a nice duplicate list of my subscribed groups and the same list under All Desks… Why doesnt it toggle to my subscribed groups, all groups and new groups??

Someome tell me wtf is a ‘desk’ again?

So how do I ‘get new groups’ added to my news server since last group update… 1.9 had a nice little menu option. Quite simple really..

Now I get some crap tool called ‘Newsgroup Directory’ that allows me to ‘Update directory’ which turns out to mean ‘Get New Groups’.. and there is a nice little check box down the bottom that says ‘show only new groups’..

Because its sooo hard to download files from the web or from ftp, most of then enhancements in the app seem to have gone into viewing + decoding crap yEnc binaries inside the app. Because we all know that a) yEnc isnt broken at all b) usenet is the best known place in the world for downloading + finding binaries..

If your a sad sap that needs to use usenet for binaries, agent 4.0 might be awesome stuff.

If you want to read usenet and such, stick to 1.9, ponying up for the upgrade is not worth it.

The only GOOD thing I’ve found, unlike 1.9, 4.0 remebers your column widths! yeehaw!

You still cant modify any hotkeys, bind keys to actions, etc…

Overall.. dont bother to upgrade.

I didnt even look at the email client in the newsreader since I have never and dont ever expect to use it as my email client, so I cant comment on it.  I have an email client. I just want a newsreader.

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Hacked off Finger

Since tomatoes are plentiful right now I was making extra spaghetti sauce to freeze for winter, and while chopping the toms I chopped my little finger! ouch…

no finger went into the mix but it better taste good smile

I have lots of bell peppers! Right now they are all green but I have over 10 growing, which is pretty neat.

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Monday, August 14, 2006

birthdays

I had a great birthday on Saturday. I chose the recipie for my cake which Carol made. It was delicious!! It was a kind of tea cake, that had 1/2 a cup of strong brewed tea in it. it was great. a bit sticky tho, it had some honey in it which you could taste. A nice clover honey wound have really altered the flavour!

We went out to an itialian place for dinner I had wanted to try. The meals were HUGE. One plate would have been enough for two people, so thats what I am having for lunch today.

We went to costco and stocked up on meat. got 6lbs of ground beef, 6lbs of ground turkey and 3 large pieces of beef to put in the crock pot (which I halved to 6 pieces) and froze the lot in small packages.

Joy said its enough meat to last the winter but I am highly doubting that.

Kayaking was fun, I got stranded on a rock in some rapids with nowhere to go while joy sailed past. she did come back after about 20 minutes to help me. We had a great time out on the river besides the randomly getting stuck on occasion.

Sunday night we had a cookout, kinda, Norma and Olen brought some chinese students over (they are doing an intensive english course), and we all ate taco’s on the deck.

gwyn felt a bit put out with all the attention now baby JJ is back from canada. our poor poor puppy dog.

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Objects Alive!

So my object based scripting language is alive-ish…

oobcplatform=cygwin32Version v0.1.151

thats itself with objects…

its the equivalent of

System.puts "oobc; platform=" System.Platform() + "; Version v" System.VerMajor() + "." System.VerMinor() + "." System.VerBuild()

It will try and coerce non-strings into strings, and if not strings returns the ID as a string…

(so it pays to have a string() routine)…

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