Thursday, February 4, 2010
No Scanner For You
I knew it would happen sooner or later. With the weather the way it is, I had a feeling that less people would be hanging around outside and more would be in the library. This is what I get for only having 30 minutes of open scanning time per day.
Now this Epsidoe isn’t really fair. All of the people I’ve ever met in the library are MUCH nicer than this. But it’s hard to feel sorry for myself with nice people, so I rendered an imaginary jerk scanner hog instead. I’m far too nice to ask them to stop them from doing their work so I can scan my stupid comix. I decided that a cop-out would be just fine.
For those of you who don’t know, there are three scanners in the library, all of which are connected to Macs. For reasons unknown, they are also the three most popular computers in the whole place, filling up before any of the others. It may be because they’re Macs. It may be because they have big privacy screens behind them. But I have a theory: if instead of Macs, they connected the scanners to Red Hat Li– no, to Solaris UNIX machines, the scanners would be free much more often, since the only people who would use the computers are the occasional UNIX junkie, or someone who GENUINELY needed to use the scanners. I wish they would test out my theory, but unfortunately the library is on the !engineering side of campus.
*sigh* Well, whatever.
Yesterday, I released Marlin 0.2.0. I know it’s only been a few days, but a few artifacts from my security testing were left over in the released package making it extremely inefficient. Furthermore, I added support for bold text in the new release, and altered some of the API again, breaking compatibility. I’m hoping that the API will become stable enough before I start using it for the 7DRL. Woot.
I hope all this work on the client pays off in the end. I can’t wait to start making some real games with it.
