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the knowledge economy of world of warcraft + other lectures by JSB

Here are a couple of lectures that I ran across while checking out Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner. They share a lot in common with the FlowOS we’re building at yuanfen flow. 5 minutes – The Knowledge Economy of World of Warcraft 5 min – The old institutions are broken 2 minutes – Shaping Serendipity Wiki Entry [...]

tessellating cellular automaton

I was browsing a wikipedia article on cellular automaton (CA) and ran across a very interesting animated gif a glider gun in a torus wrap-around universe (think the game asteroids): public domain from wikipedia I wondered if the animation would tessellate–and it does! The YTMND-like result is: /sandbox/glidergun.php PHP source for the @ /sandbox/glidergun.phps

apache2 — symbolic links not showing up in /var/www/

I was struggling with this one earlier today, it turns out it was because I had an internal hard drive that was formatted in ntfs (which doesn’t support UNIX file permissions), thus, the symbolic link was leading to a bunch of files that apache didn’t have permission to read. I copied the files over to [...]