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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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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Finally a real employee

My information finally went through human resources yesterday so I was able to get my RIN.  Even though I’ve been working at RPI for a week, I haven’t had my RIN that whole time.  In order for most departments at RPI to process new employees they need you RIN, its basically like a SSN for [...]

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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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Leaving albany, a very vegan goodbye

Today was my last day at my job at University at Albany. We had a party, like we usually do when someone leaves.  Generally everyone meets in the conference room and everyone (except me and someone at my job with celiacs) eats pizza, cake, coldcuts or some other non-vegan food.  I always enjoy them but [...]

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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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