An older gentleman, grey-white thinning hair, gold-rimmed aviator bifocals, white oxford shirt with a blood red power tie tucked under the third button, hails for my attention. "Excuse me, I noticed that you have an Apple." His voice is matter of fact...
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April 06, 2005
I am an Elastic Firecracker
Tripping Daisy, Ah... I miss the bands of my youth. Good old friends have come back for a second round in the playlist.
April 10, 2005
Writting and the Cafe
Now that my thesis project is (mostly) done, I get to concentrate some on writing for a while. Then move on to experiments with my system and BOINC. The great thing about Cafe Cubana on the weekends is the music. They have a satellite radio. On the weekends, occasionally...
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April 12, 2005
Cricket versus MRTG+RRDTool+MRTG-RRDTool.cgi
While I think cricket is a great idea (in theory), in practice I found doing the simplest monitoring difficult. In fact, I couldn't get it to monitor eth0 on a linux box. I burned 2-3 hours trying the various contributed packages for monitoring eth0 with net-snmp...
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April 16, 2005
Safari 1.3
When Safari 1.0 came out, it was the fastest rendering browser I had ever seen. Then Safari 1.2 raised the bar, again increasing the speed of page rendering. Safari 1.3 is simply amazing. It loads pages like lightening across the screen. Hopefully, they made some security improvements as well.
April 17, 2005
Just in time.
I've been waiting for a Mac version of Lyx since I switched to Mac. Now its here ... well okay, technically its been out since last October, whatever. Apple's Pages is great, until you need to type a formula, then it... well it sucks frankly (Word is better even)...
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April 18, 2005
The premise for my thesis project is so subtle, I wonder if I'm simply delusional. I've tried tackling the justification from a couple of different angles now... but haven't nailed it down.
April 30, 2005
Initial thoughts on Tiger
I installed the developer version of Tiger tonight, herein are a few notes about the changes.
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