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Now more than ever

rhuvok — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:25:54 -0400

It is getting down to crunch time on my thesis and project as the presentation date is just three weeks away. I only hope that I can pass through this time without going a little bit crazy. I doubt that, but hey I'm in Spain, that should count for something... and perhaps lead to the fact... [read more]

Year 6

rhuvok — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:04:43 -0400

In the universe which measures time since the creation of this website, it is now year six. I guess if such a universe existed, the new year would likely be something more significant like the date I bought the domain, or the beginning of the message.board, which would put the start of the... [read more]

Christmas season

rhuvok — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:12:45 -0400

As you can see, I have unleased the Christmas template again. Seems a bit weird this year since I barely used this site at all. I have been away from Canada for the entirety of 2006 and my EuropeAdventure site has taken all my attention for obvious reasons. I guess it is fairly difficult... [read more]

SVN and Berkeley 4.3

rhuvok — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:28:45 -0300

For any of my Mac-using readers who also have a local installation of Subversion, the excellent version control system, this post may interest you. I recently (today) tried to commit some work to a local repository on my computer that I haven't used in a while (couple months). Once I... [read more]

MacBooks

rhuvok — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:57:28 -0300

I am typing this entry from a MacBook in the Apple store on Regent Street in London. I must admit, that while the computer itself is very nice, these new keyboards suck. I don't want to hog this machine any more than I have so I will leave you with that.

españa 2006

rhuvok — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:33:40 -0300

I have uploaded a new wallpaper called españa 2006 to my Wallpaper page. It has a nice summery feel to it and isn't very obtrusive. If you would like it in another size than what is available now, please let me know I can add it. This one is best not stretched too much because... [read more]

Tomcat

rhuvok — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:33:31 -0300

Does installing Tomcat on my laptop make me a bad person? Probably not. Dirty maybe, but certainly not bad. Some of you know how I feel about Java, and I really don't want to get into it right now, but suffice it to say that we don't see eye to eye. But when required to do something for... [read more]

Boot Camp

rhuvok — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:41:52 -0300

It has been a while since my last post, so I thought I would just check in a say that I am alive and well and living in Spain. School is keeping me busy and most of my antics are detailed on europeadventure.ca, but why not take a moment to discuss Apple's latest bomb: Boot Camp. For... [read more]

Derailed

rhuvok — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:38:25 -0400

I'm sure that many of you have heard about Ruby on Rails, which a wildly popular web application framework built around the Ruby programming language and having some primitive ties to my preferred editor, TextMate. Well to listen to a lot of people on the internet, you'd think that the... [read more]

It finally happened

rhuvok — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:23:50 -0400

I thought the fact that Kieran switched was something of a small miracle, but it seems that the Mac is an itch that just needs to be scratched. With Apple switching to Intel-based machines, there is a lot of confusion both from the Mac camp and the PC camp as to what the future will hold.... [read more]

Multitouch displays!

rhuvok — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:34:30 -0400

This video from Jeff Han takes it to the next level of multiple simultaneous inputs. I've done research on this topic, but nothing I found at the time was this far along. Perhaps a better URL for this is: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ which actually lets you download the video... [read more]

6 GHz

rhuvok — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:10:51 -0400

IBM is raising the bar on processor speeds with their new server line running at 6 GHz in the lab. They are also going multi-core which is the trend these days and as it says in the article, they are turning both knobs (frequency and cores) at once.

Interesting links

rhuvok — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:48:44 -0400

o There go your credit card numbers. -- I particularly enjoy the line about Visa at the end of the article. o Interesting article about Dominoes

Search

rhuvok — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:20:31 -0400

Only a full three years after implementing it for the forum, I have finally added full text search on the web log posts and titles. As much as I do enjoy browsing through the posts on my site and reminiscing about the good times had, I was also getting pissed at needing to skim through a... [read more]

TextMate

rhuvok — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:11:03 -0400

I'm in love. After three years of searching, I have found my dream editor for the Mac. I'm sure that I've mentioned the quest for a text editor on several occasions. In my last post about it, I even mentioned that one in particular could be it. Could be the alpha editor if you will. Well... [read more]

Sheepish fix

rhuvok — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:36:45 -0400

No this post has nothing to do with Kieran and his vices. Around the time I upgraded my computers to Tiger (end of April 2005) I also experienced a problem with my iTunes Music Store account. Looking in my archives I can't find a mention of it, which surprises me, I thought I would have... [read more]

Damnit!

rhuvok — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:00:39 -0400

Looks like I jumped the gun by about one month. I knew that Intel chips were due out in 2006, but I didn't realize that they would do the Powerbooks first!! Introducing the Mac Book Pro. It is the 15.4 inch Powerbook (like the one I just bought) pimped out with 4x the speed, twice the... [read more]

Retro

rhuvok — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:05:51 -0400

I was going through my hard drive the other day in my hotel room (what else is one to do without Internet) and found a bunch of stuff I designed and created back in the early Dalhousie days (circa 2002). So without further ado, I will bring a little bit of the past to life. o Anthrax ... [read more]

TV on demand

rhuvok — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:48:03 -0400

As was discussed in the forums, the concept of downloading (and paying for) legitimate copies of TV shows is a reality in the iTunes Music/Video Store. With NBC on board with episodes of the Office, Law and Order, Monk and Jay Leno, this is the start to something more involved.

New powerbook

rhuvok — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:17:57 -0400

With perhaps less public fanfare, but with no less love from me, I have just today picked up my second Powerbook. This 15 inch widescreen beauty is going to replace Obnauticus after almost 3 years of incredible service. Since she was my first laptop, I have nothing to compare her to... [read more]