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I like all kinds of food.

Feeding back…

Here is a copy of the modified wucoco theme I’m using. Nuked the calendar Moved 100 pixels of width from the right column to the left Added a ‘pre’ css element assertion Fixed a small problem with the title middle … Continue reading

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$Greetings

please stand by Why not try a couple long lines first. One big problem I had while trying to figure out this layout is exactly how to deal with preformatted text. Since I intend to be pasting lots of code … Continue reading

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Pirates vs Cowboys / Bay to Breakers

I spent most of the weekend in SF hangin’ with Nick and Kori. First was the party at the old office of the puzzlepirates crew Saturday night. The theme was pirates vs cowboys; I decided to go cowboy. I spent … Continue reading

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X11 mobility with Xmove

X11 is a windowing system for *nix computers. There is one point about X11 that needs to be understood before anything that follows will make sense, so I’ve cribbed the following bit from the X11 wikipedia page to explain: X … Continue reading

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The Journeyman’s Guilde to Quicktime Presentations

This guide will demonstrate a method for creating multi-track, multi-media, self-contained quicktime movies. A good example of this would be the presentation format where there are multiple tracks of media that need to be coordinated with specific timings. Perhaps there … Continue reading

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Cacti in Tiger Server

Install XCode Install and configure darwinports Download the newest version from macosforge. Add the darwinports paths to your shell config file. e.g. PATH=”/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH” Update the ports collection sudo port -d selfupdate Install rrdtool from darwinports Execute the following to install … Continue reading

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Quake4 macbook benchmarks

I recorded a short multiplayer demo (recordnetdemo demo1 / stopnetdemo) on a public server – there were 5 or 6 other players (quake4 performance falls off pretty quick as you add players). The demo was recorded on my slowest-performing machine, … Continue reading

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hi

I’m pretty much the same, with one notable exception. Went ahead and got myself one of those newfangled macbooks, and I must say it’s rather nice. My previous laptop is a g3 ibook from 2001. Almost 5 years old = … Continue reading

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X11 application mobility funs

Ever wanted to have an X11 application’s GUI follow you around between various machines while the app continues to run? Believe it or not, I have wanted this. Recently I found a little app that lets you do this called … Continue reading

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Firefly season 2?!?

http://fireflyseason2.com/ If you elect to watch it on your computer, be sure to let them know via the comments that you would prefer to download and store a copy, instead of a one-time viewing or some such.

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