Author: mikal

Chocolate fudge self saucing pudding

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I’ve talked before about cooking here, for example by my barbecued salmon recipe turned out ok. So here’s the dessert I’ve been meaning to write up for a while: Ingredients for the pudding: 1/2 cup of self raising flour 1/2 teaspoon of salt (I usually just use a pinch) 1 tablespoon of cocoa 90 grams…

Collisions in MD5 sums

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This is kind of a big deal. Cryptographic has functions are used in a lot of computer science circles to take a large document and turn it into a relatively small description of the document. The transformation has a couple of interesting properties: It’s one way — which means that I can know that I…

New ImageMagick uploaded to Debian Unstable

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So, it appears that a new version of ImageMagick has been uploaded to Debian Unstable. Is this in relation to my previous complaint? Probably not. Anyways, 6.2.3 is there, but appears to have troubles building. My Debian insider tells me that you can track the progress of the package from the package’s status page. I…

Old ImageMagick packages in Debian and Ubuntu

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So, does anyone know why Debian Unstable and Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog are still shipping ImageMagick 6.0.6 when the latest release is 6.2.3? That strikes me as being a little bit too out of date. If you look at the bug page for ImageMagick on Debian then you’ll see that there are certainly a lot of…

Quite motivational

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An interesting motivational blog post from Mark Cuban: it doesn’t matter how many times you fail in business, you only have to be right once. So right. [tags: business entrepreneur] [icbm: work]