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This is too much text to twitter, so it finds a home on my blog. From Andrew Plotkin via Wikipedia:

"If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is."

Kenny says, Go Write Something in Lisp!

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I had to switch from the proprietary nvidia drivers to the vanilla 'nv' driver, but that enabled xrandr and now I can take my T61 (running Ubuntu Hardy) on and off my docking station -- without restarting X!

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From dmesg on my new(ish) Lenovo T61 running Ubuntu Hardy Heron:

iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.26k
iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
iwl4965: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels

I finally got the OSS driver for my wifi card to work - thanks to the Linux Wireless project. Version 1.2.0 of iwl4965, included with Hardy Heron, didn't work for me - neither did its predecessor that shipped with Gutsy. But version 1.2.6k is working fine. Joy! - no more ndiswrapper for me. <grin />

The inaugural Boston Lisp meeting was well attended. Lisp is not dead language - at least not in Cambridge and within sight of the MIT campus. I'm a relatively new lisper (thanks Peter for the excellent introduction) and it was fun to talk with people who code full time in common lisp.

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