Blue Proximity

A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of a piece of software called BlueProximity. Basically it looks for your cellphone via bluetooth and if it can find it it checks to see how close you are. You can define a range that it accepts you as being at your computer and [...]

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Stupid home and end keys on my macbook

Its funny how you just get used to some things. I’ve been using either Windows or Linux as my primary desktops for quite a while now. Both operating systems treat the home and end keys pretty much the same way. The first time I was in a terminal on my mac though [...]

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Sinking frustrations with Conduit

Like most geeks out there I know I have quite a few machines out there and there are some applications that I use to try and keep my sanity and sync everything. Most recently I have added dropbox and spider oak to a growing web of applications that gradually bring me closer to syncing [...]

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A word on Unit Testing

For those of you who are completely unaware of what unit testing is here is a brief description.
In computer programming, unit testing is a method of testing that verifies the individual units of source code are working properly. A unit is the smallest testable part of an application. In procedural programming a unit may be [...]

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VMware fixed

I finally was able to get VMware server to install, mostly due to a very helpful forum post on ubuntu’s forums. Once I found this post I knew I was 90% there because it was specifically dealing with both the version of ubuntu and the version of VMware server I was trying to install. [...]

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VMWare I hate you

***UPDATE***
Chris made a very reasonable suggestion to use virtual box instead of VMware.  This actually would have been my preference originally since its dead simple to set up.  Unfortunately after doing some reading online it appears that in the area of disk performance VMware stomps on virtual box.  Since the application for this particular situation [...]

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I love synergy

At work I have a Mac laptop and a linux desktop. Sometimes I wind up wanting to do things on the mac laptop but the vast majority of the time I use my linux machine. The problem is I can’t stand using the stupid mouse on the mac laptop and I’d rather use [...]

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How is work going?

I’ve had a bunch of people ask me how my new job is going. Its really a tough one to answer to be perfectly honest. In all reality I’ve only been here for a few days and I probably won’t really know what my job is like for a while. Probably months [...]

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A new lady in my life… Eowyn

Alright, in case you didn’t catch the lord of the rings reference I don’t actually have a new girlfriend.  I am not cheating on my wife… but I did get a new car.  I always name my cars and although that may seem odd, from what I understand its not all that uncommon.  Our last [...]

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Make me an offer I can’t refuse

Well, RPI did just that.  I am excited to say that I will soon be working for EMPAC at rpi.  The job sounds like it will have a lot of exciting opportunities for me, not the least of which is 2 classes a semester for both my wife and myself.  I won’t be moving into [...]

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