Friday
I did some things which were very much in character -- writing about PKI, trying out User-Mode Linux -- and one thing which was very much out of character.
My father had a book published in Amsterdam (if I remember correctly) in the early 1500 with woodcuts illustrating proverbs and possibly contemporary poetry. I'd love to see that book again. The only thing I remember from it at all (I haven't seen it since around 1993 or 1994) was the couplet
Omnia mutantur,
certe amores mutantur.
(emphasis added). I'm amazed, first of all, that I've never mentioned this before in my diary, and second of all, that a Google search for "certe-amores" finds nothing at all. Soon it will find this page.
I finally understand that old books which say they were published in "Lipsia" are published in the city we call Leipzig (in Germany). There are other interesting examples of Latin names of cities which used to be well known but are not exactly widely known in America these days.
User-Mode Linux is really cool, except I couldn't get it to work (the init scripts in the root filesystem images I tried would tend to hang). But it seems that it would be ideal for BBC testing, because we wouldn't have to reboot to test a BBC image, and there's fairly good support for device emulation, and no need to use VMWare. At least, it would be good for testing our init scripts.
