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Pac-Man Spotted In The Wild

October 2, 2010

Jaime "Kalapusa" Margary, who's given us realistic Piranha Plants, and Super Mario fungi in the past, now turns his attention to Pac-Man, presently soaking in jar of formaldehyde.

Writes Jaime:

The idea behind the video is Pac Man's final days, free from the maze (kudos if you can guess who's castle that is) and eating pellets to his heart's content in a glowing pellet forest. His dead, bloated body is found afterwards and then delivered to 8-Bit Labs.

Making cygwin, Windows and emacs understand the same symlinks

September 28, 2010

Today I ran into the problem that symlinks created under cygwin using "ln -s" are not understood by Windows, and of course Windows shortcuts are seen by cygwin as regular files. Happily, this is a (semi-)solved problem. For reference, this is what needs to be done:

  1. Add "winsymlinks" to your CYGWIN environment variable. For example, in my .bashrc I have the following:

    export CYGWIN="nodosfilewarning winsymlinks"

    This makes cygwin create symlinks differently, in a form that is understood both by it and by Windows.
    This is the main step, and the only one if you just need access from the shell and from the Windows explorer. However, emacs still sees those symlinks as regular .lnk files. To fix this, follow the next step.

Website redesign and unification

September 28, 2010
There are still some rough edges, but by far the redesign and unification of zzamboni.org is done. With the same design you can now find my blogs (hosted by posterous.com), my project pages (hosted in github.com project repositories) and some static pages (hosted in my personal github.com pages repository, this includes the root, About and Code pages, as well as the static copy of my old blog BrT, which is the only one that retains its original design). The theme is a variation of Posterous' "Paramaibo".