Okay, so I managed to figure out how to increase the memory in the machine - you just can't do this while it is running. Now I have a new beef. The disks are "dynamically expanding". What happened to the good old days of giving it a gig or 2 and calling it good...
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November 03, 2004
And so it goes...
All the hard-core democrats on the Internet have already begun whining about the loss of John Kerry. I personally felt he did the best he could with the Democratic platform. Bush took a traditional stand against gay marriage...
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November 05, 2004
iMovie, FileVault, and Video Importing
Last night Maryna and I were using iMovie to import some video footage from our Cam-corder, and in the middle of the import process, the footage would begin stuttering and then the import would stop. IMovie didn't report any errors...
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November 07, 2004
Easy does it
This weekend has been the most relaxing I've had in some time (not counting last weekend when I was sick), possibly the most relaxing since the semester's beginning. It is the first weekend in months that I didn't spend programming, doing homework, or something else along those lines...
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November 09, 2004
Debugging not going as smoothly as hoped.
I'm in the lab today debugging my thesis project. I had hoped that the changes I made for phase II wouldn't affect the functionality of phase I, however some bug seems to have slipped by.... probably due to the cough medicine...
November 10, 2004
Still fighting the cold
I've tried everything: over-the-counter medicine, vitamin-C, rest, zinc tablets, long-distance running... nothing has really finished off the cold. While I feel okay during the day (for a few hours) I wear out quickly and resign to a headache in the evenings. I'm still coughing...
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November 11, 2004
RSS could help us to learn languages
There was a post on World Changing about ways to acquire new languages. I've been leisurely learning Russian and occasionally wish I made better progress. The reason I don't make progress faster is because I never take the time to focus on learning Russian. In other words...
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November 12, 2004
Bring on the end of the semester
Well, for the past two weeks I've been under the weather. Now, I'm finally starting to feel better.... but I'm very far behind with my thesis project development. :( Before I fell ill, I might even say that I was obsessing about getting my implementation going. Now...
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November 15, 2004
Apple limits Disk Utilities ability to create CD disk images.
What?? Apple, what are you doing??Is it just me, or did the upgrade to 10.3.6 disable the ability to create an image from device in "Disk Utility" when the device in question was a CD burned by iTunes???Apple, this sucks. It is a major inconvenience...
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November 19, 2004
The blues again (and again and again)
Whenever I get work into an excited frenzy (a mania, if you will) - where I feel like I can handle anything - I make the most mistakes in judgment (and work related - basically in every aspect of my life). The mistakes lead into a stupor...
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November 21, 2004
Writing is hard work
I'm working on another grant proposal; writing is hard work. In my estimation, the fastest that I can put coherent thoughts together in a readable form is three weeks, but that is optimistic. For me to write a polished paper, probably takes at least a month. Yet...
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November 23, 2004
Second night with no sleep
Tonight (this morning really) is the second night I've spent writing all night long. The grant proposal is due today at five. It is simply amazing how much this has shaped up in the five days we spent on it. I was skeptical that we would have a solid proposal...
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November 28, 2004
Not just iTune's CDs, any CD
Some time ago, I mentioned that Apple changed the functionality of the DiskUtility so that it can't create images from disks burned from iTunes, I'm sad to report this isn't entirely accurate...
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November 30, 2004
Thanksgiving was great
I started today with a chess rating of 1583 and maintained a 1573. I wrote my first flex and bison parsers for TL-Delta language (this was an assignment in one of my classes). I mentioned to the professor that I would like to generate executables from the TL-Delta grammars...
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