Printed Circuits
My laptop broke, so I took it apart to see what was wrong (a personality trait developed in early childhood). All signs point to a hardware problem, one that I’m incapable of fixing. This situation is absolutely galling. Like most…
Random Ruminations
My thoughts are as entropic as the leaves falling off the trees this season (just about as colored too). Graduate School Applications <rant>I really dislike forms; actually I frothingly detest them. I don’t know why, but I have always hated…
The Man
Ok, well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. Some interesting stuff has been happening in my life though. The software project I’m working on has surpassed 10,000 lines. While this in itself is neither an unusual nor…
Status update.
Well, I’ve really been out of it. Not much has been happening, and there’s not much that I want to rant about. I successfully installed OpenWRT on my new wireless router. Though I now have wireless, I noticed that my…
HD Crash and why *nix is is better than Windows
Ok, so the site has been down for a week. That’s because my computer’s HD crashed. Fortunately, I was able to goto Staples and purchase 2 Seagate 500GB SATA drives. That’s 1TB purchased on a whim for $260! You couldn’t…
The Entropy
Well, my car battery is died yesterday. It seems that everything in the universe has conspired to attack me this week. On the plus side, I purchased a set of jumper cables, and an Xpower PowerPack 300 EP. It provides…
The Interruptable Power Supply
I usally goto my grandmother’s house for dinner, and today was no exception. On my home machine I’m busy compiling kde as part of a gentoo installation in a chroot on the hard drive I took out of my new…
FedEx Sux
Alright, so I ordered a laptop, and the supplier chose to ship FedEx, I chose Ground (because I’m cheap). So, Thursday morning, before work, I check up on the tracking number, and the FedEx website says it was in L.A….
The Microsoft Tax
I recently decide to purchase a Laptop. My concerns were: must be 64-bit, must be lightweight, should be tiny. Using the venerable pricegrabber, which lets you sort and filter by many aspects (and so beats froogle to a bloody pulp),…
Workin’ for the Man
This last week, I showed what I’ve been working on for the last 7 months to my superior, only to be shot down. I’m responsible for ‘porting’ (really, it’s a complete rewrite) a Geospatial Information program from M$ windows to…