Free But Keeping Busy
I meant to post this image Tuesday evening, but wasn't in a writing mood. Tuesday afternoon I decided to challenge myself and see how quickly I could put together a mechanism to take digital photos remotely with my old camera. In this case, I wanted it to be on my RC boat. Turns out it can be done in roughly an hour, using a servo, some 14-gauge wire, and a few blocks of wood.

I have been hacking on Evince lately, trying to get document properties to show up in Nautilus. I have Nautilus behaving properly, showing a tab for PDFs and anything I want in the tab. However, Evince's structure is not sufficient for this because everything is contained in the main binary. So, to make this work, things need to be more compartmentalized; importing the whole binary into the library for Nautilus extension is not right.

Finally, I did some follow-up research on the Enigma, and the sign in the museum was correct. Polish mathematicians had previously cracked the commercial, 3-rotor Enigma. The Brits took this work and extended it to the 5-rotor version, thus cracking it.