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In college a friend and I were known around campus as the Mac Macks. It was 1995/1996 and I worked in the on-campus (Apple) Computer Store (this links to the site I built at the time, not the current, “official” site). Dan and I made it our duty to visit all the freshman girls with […]

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Wow. Mozilla Firebird is blazingly fast. I normally use IE6 for all my browsing, but with this latest release of Mozilla (I’m typing this in Firebird release 0.6), I can easily see myself becoming a regular Mozilla user. Back in the day (1995 through 1999 or so), I was a hardcore Netscape fan, but have […]

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I logged into my Web server via SSH this morning, as I do every day, to be greeted by a new prompt: jailshell-2.05$ I was also thrown into the top-level directory, rather than my usual home directory. I began to notice some other differences — new directories, inability to view my live Web logs, as […]

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Jen and I have been talking about possibly getting Tivo. But maybe now we won’t have to, thanks to the beauty of open-source (free) software: Freevo. My home computer primarily runs Windows 2000, but I also have an instance of Red Hat Linux installed on it, so I can easily toggle between the two thanks […]

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I am typing this blog entry from the floor of my living room on my Power Mac 7600/120, which I’ve not used in years — yes, years. One of my projects for the weekend was to get this machine up and running again. Several years ago — I can’t pinpoint exactly when, but it was […]

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Since it’s damn near impossible to find online the simplest way to scan a Unix directory of files, search for one text pattern, and replace with another, I am now archiving the simplest method I could find (which I’ve tested and have proven that it works beautifully). Simply cd to the directory where your files […]

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This is a pretty cool concept: Achiving every aspect of your life electronically. My blog is certainly a step in that direction, but Microsoft research teams are working on taking it even further through something called MyLifeBits, which aims to archive everything from email to photos to phone calls: ABCNEWS.com : This Is Your Brain […]

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While sitting here late at work listening to a boring conference call with the APAC region that has basically nothing to do with me, I took this quiz (Which OS Are You?), courtesy of bit.ch. According to the results, I am Slackware Linux. Nice. I like the description: You are the brightest among your peers, […]

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Friendster is a really cool concept. I first learned of it from fellow Vassar alum Mike Sugarbaker’s blog. I just registered through him. It’s the six degrees of separation method of meeting people who know people you know — to chat, make friends, do stuff together, or even date. It brings the whole match.com experience […]

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