endless automata

If you have the time to write a three paragraph rant on why my suggestion doesn’t work, the least you could do is include the error message…

I’m getting rid of things again - here’s a partial list of the geekier things - please let me know if you are interested - I just want things to go to a good home:

• 2 IBM model M Keyboards
• Macintosh SE with keyboard and mouse (HD has bad sectors)
• Wyse terminal
• Powermac 7500 – 233Mhz CPU, ATI video card, 256MB of RAM (I think), OS 8.6
• Micro ATX case without power supply
• Assorted NES, SNES, and Genesis games
• DVD/VCR combo
• Compaq Proliant 800 (server – dual CPUs, SCSI RAID array – doesn’t boot)
• 68000 Assembly Language Programming
• Machine Organization by Pfleeger
• Data Structures Using C
• Advanced Assembly Language Programming X86
• Assembly Language Step-by-Step X86
• A Gift of Fire
• Operating System Design (XINU) Vols. 1 and 2
• How to Program Visual Basic.net (Deitel)
• Assorted Dr. Dobbs Issues
• ASP.net in a Nutshell
• C # Databases
• Beginning ASP.net 2.0
• C# Pocket Reference
• C# and VB.net Conversion
• Assorted geometry books
• First five volumes of The Wheel of Time
• Fundamentals of Programming Languages by Horowitz
• Computer Organization by Gorsline
• Microprogramming Handbook
• Microcomputers for External Control Devices
• Practical Guide to Digital Integrated Circuits
• Algorithms and Data Structures by Wirth
• SQL Server 2000 Administrator’s Pocket Reference
• SQL Server 2000 System Administration
• Linear Algebra and its Applications by Lay
• Discreet Mathematics with Graph Theory
• Advanced Calculus by Devinatz
• Elementary Differential Equations
• Calculus with Analytic Geometry
• Apache the Definitive Guide, second edition
• Beginning Java 2 SDK 1.4
• Programming Distributed Applications with Com and VB6
• Mastering Standard C
• 469 Pascal Problems
• Machine and Assembly Language Programming of the PDP 11
• The Question of Artificial Intelligence
• C++ An Introduction to Computing
• C++ Plus Data Structures
• Atari 2600 and 7800 and assorted games

I’m trying to build WebKit on Windows (don’t ask). The instructions are fairly good, but the environment takes forever to setup, the code base is huge, so SVN takes forever to check it out, and finally the build takes quite a long time as well. What started as a “quick” project quickly turned into 5-6 hours of tweaking things on a platform I don’t especially like to begin with.

This morning, it finally looked like I had it all together - but I had to go to work, and didn’t have time to kick off the build process and watch it (hopefully) work. I did have time, however, to setup RDP. But wait, you say, don’t you have to traverse not only one, but two firewalls?

Never fear, SSH is here. Thanks to local port forwarding, I was able to forward an RDP connection to localhost to my box at home and kick off the build… which worked!

More incomprehensible updates soon.