echristopherson

101 reputation

bio	website	github.com/echristopherson
	location	Wisconsin
	age	34
visits	member for	4 months
	seen	Apr 30 at 0:46
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I'm primarly a Ruby hacker but have played with everything from Commodore BASIC to Cocoa. I'd also like to explore Smalltalk, Go, Clojure, Scala, Haskell, OCaml, and maybe even C#.

I'm not currently a programmer by trade, but I'd like to get into it. I do write a lot of scripts to help me in my job.

My day-to-day personal computing setup is in Mac OS X, but I also use a Linux desktop as a backup server and for general tinkering; and I use Windows XP (soon to be 7, woohoo!) at work.

I am also deeply interested (albeit at an amateur remove) in linguistics, especially historical. This dovetails with the fact that I am a conlanger -- someone who creates languages. (I'm not especially prolific at that, though.)

I also like science (especially cognitive science, evolution, and physics) and anthropology. My overarching interest in all these areas is the way something like a genome or language or computer language or culture changes over time and forks into unnumerable new ones.

	101 reputation	bio	website	github.com/echristopherson	visits	member for	4 months
2 badges		location	Wisconsin		seen	Apr 30 at 0:46

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Apr 30	comment	Safely close virtualbox machine on host reboot Thanks for checking. It does look related to that.
Apr 20	comment	Safely close virtualbox machine on host reboot Works like a charm (Windows XP guest), except it seems to throw out a `VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER` on the host side if I am logged in via RDC as the user given in the script, and subsequently the guest keeps running.
Apr 20	comment	Safely close virtualbox machine on host reboot Has reboot recently become more polite? The man page for `reboot` in 12.10 says "When called with --force or when in runlevel 0 or 6, this tool invokes the reboot(2) system call itself and directly reboots the system. Otherwise this simply invokes the shutdown(8) tool with the appropriate arguments."; and the man page for `shutdown` says "Once TIME has elapsed, shutdown sends a request to the init(8) daemon to bring the system down into the appropriate runlevel."
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