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		<title>Off-curve misrendering</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2010/07/off-curve-misrendering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fonts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hisdeedsaredust.com/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adam Hyde came up with a question about a misrendering of a font on the FontForge Users&#8217; mailing list. A colleague had designed a font in FontForge which looked fine except when used in Adobe Illustrator (of unspecified version). He provided two examples of characters whose shapes had developed distinct &#8220;ears&#8221;. Peter Baker suggested that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The undervalued bool</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2010/06/the-undervalued-bool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poor choices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine wanted to reduce the repetition in this fragment of C++: funcA(false); funcB(false); funcC(false); funcD(false); funcA(true); funcB(true); funcC(true); funcD(true); and, in a burst of sheer genius, came up with this solution: for (bool status = false; status]]></description>
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		<title>Extracting font licence metadata</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2010/02/extracting-font-licence-metadata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fonts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hisdeedsaredust.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been looking at packaging a font for Fedora, and have found that there is no separate licence file, though the font metadata contains the full licence text. I should ask upstream to put a copy of the licence in their archive, the next time they do a release, but what if they aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security through perversity</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/12/security-through-perversity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poor choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firebug]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intranet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hisdeedsaredust.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The corporate Information Services overlords have recently introduced a single sign-on solution for our intranet applications, CA SiteMinder. Somewhere along the lines, a discussion must have taken place about a feature of that pesky Mozilla Firefox, helpfully remembering passwords. Although we have to sign on to even access our internal network, there must have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The magic of #ifdef</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/12/the-magic-of-ifdef/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poor choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hisdeedsaredust.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The beauty of the preprocessor #ifdef . . . #endif directives in C and C++ is that there are so many ways to abuse them. I&#8217;ve been working on some vintage code (at least 15 years old) that provides a model for how not to do things. The compilation is controlled by no fewer than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An old video terminal, in vector form</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/11/video-terminal-in-vector-form/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fonts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fontconfig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hisdeedsaredust.com/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I still have a VT100 terminal, but it&#8217;s in storage. I figured I could pretend that it was on my desk if I made a font that looked like the old beast, including the gaps between scan lines. Once I&#8217;d started, I needed the reverse video form of it, and the forms correctly underlined, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrecting fonts</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/11/resurrecting-fonts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fonts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ofl]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hisdeedsaredust.com/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I recovered my old font files from some crufty old SuperDisks, but did nothing more with them than copy them to my network storage, in the hope that that is a safer home. Last weekend I was reading about the Fedora Fonts SIG, and decided to bring the old font files back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung X120 keyboard quirks</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/11/samsung-x120-keyboard-quirks/</link>
		<comments>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/11/samsung-x120-keyboard-quirks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As suspected, the Samsung X120 notebook has the same keyboard quirks as many other Samsung laptops, so that some of the function keys don&#8217;t work correctly under Fedora 11. There are two problems and fixes needed. One, the kernel needs patching so that the quirks with missing key release events are also applied to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung X120 battery life</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/10/samsung-x120-battery-life/</link>
		<comments>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/10/samsung-x120-battery-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[battery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hisdeedsaredust.com/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just charged my notebook&#8217;s battery fully, then allowed it to discharge while the machine was idle. First of all, I nobbled the power management settings in Fedora 11 to make sure that the screen stayed bright throughout, and it didn&#8217;t perform a neat shutdown when it guessed the battery was close to death. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manx dumps</title>
		<link>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/10/manx-dumps/</link>
		<comments>http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/10/manx-dumps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A raw MySQL dump of Manx is now online: vt100.net/manx/dump. I think there was an XML dump at some point, which linked publications and copies, but I don&#8217;t know how that was generated at the moment. I&#8217;ve scribbled two pages of notes about Manx&#8217;s schema and philosophy which need typing up at some point. Well, [...]]]></description>
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