It’s been a while since the last post and I have several large posts lined up, however before posting those I decided to upgrade wordpress to the latest version.
The upgrade was very uneventfull except for a non-working theme and a surprise delete (due to the ftp software) of my uploads dir…. (also first making this [...]
I have been running Leopard since friday, and it is amazing!… there are many reviews to read, so lets not state the obvious over and over.
Today I noticed a difference between the Intel and PowerPC in the ‘ps’ utility. Both machines say that they have the same version of ‘ps’ in /bin/ps:
MD5 (/bin/ps) = bce38c39ee7b501eaf00745b87ed0565
and [...]
So, yesterday morning I finished the Halo trilogy, quite a good ending, much bettern then Halo 2 ;)… but still enough room to create more games in the Halo universe…
So, back to life, I found several nice articles this weekend… but the winner is probably the release of a Google Filesystem clone called Kosmos [...]
A day behind on our US and Aussie friends we finally received Halo 3 in europe! This morning I was the first at my local store to grab my Limited Edition copy. Sadly the disc had come loose in the tin, something many people complain about. It seems as if one of 2 things has [...]
I had one of those ‘dammit!’ moments a few days back when through stupidity of my own I wrecked my Linux installation on my Dell E520.
In order to fix the issue I actually had to use the Dell recovery CD and software to burn a new CD image of Ubuntu. I also have a printer [...]
If you want to write LaTeX/TeX documents on the mac, check out this page.
Rails is hot, but the Java guys are making it even hotter! Watch out for http://shale.apache.org/ and http://www.jboss.com/products/seam … ok, so I am biased
Looks like rapid web app development is kicking in gears in the Java world, should make for interesting times..
In many applications you often want to perform a series of operations on data. Normally you would just chain a bunch of method calls that pass along the data, however, as anyone realizes, this approach is far from ideal.
The ACE library contains something called Streams which allows you to utilize the ‘Pipes and Filters’ pattern. [...]
How to forge has a great article up on how to install linux over a network connection using you own Preboot eXecution Environment installation server. This will allow you to play around with various distributions without the need of burning CDs / DVDs of each distribution.
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