Programmer's joke

Update: Everyone is telling me that this joke is stupid.

Mesa3D (OpenGL) and MinGW

I’ve just managed to compile and install Mesa3D version 7.2 under Microsoft Windows (using MinGW). Here are the steps in case anyone else needs to know:

• Install MinGW and MSYS
• Download and unpack MesaLib, MesaGLUT, and MesaDemos into the same directory. The files are available on SourceForge.
• Open the file Mesa-7.2/Makefile.mgw in an editor and replace
  <pre>copy progs\samples\star.exe lib</pre> with
  <pre>cp progs/samples/star.exe lib</pre>
• Compile Mesa3D by executing make -f Makefile.mgw under MSYS
• Copy the files Mesa-7.2/lib/lib*.a to the directory /mingw/lib
• Copy the files Mesa-7.2/lib/*.dll to the directory /mingw/bin
• Copy the content of Mesa-7.2/include to the directory /mingw/include

To test Mesa3D you can for example download SGI’s cube.c and compile it by executing

gcc -o cube cube.c -lopengl32 -lglu32 -lglut32

Real-time Computer Vision with Ruby

I gave a presentation about Real-time Computer Vision with Ruby at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. You can download the presentation here:

• Real-time Computer Vision with Ruby Presentation.pdf (9.19 MiB, abstract)

A machine vision extension for the Ruby programming language

The publication A machine vision extension for the Ruby programming language is available for download on the Digital Commons Repository of Sheffield Hallam University. The paper describes early work on the HornetsEye Ruby-extension in context of the Nanorobotics project.

Action against underspending

Are you also notoriously leading your department into problems by underspending on your budget? I am proposing a 3-step solution:

• Send me e-mails with the expected amount of underspending
• I will sum up the stated amounts
• At the end of the fiscal year everyone transfers the money into an escrow acount to finance a new space program

Update: So far I have received estimates amounting to £60,000.