just love this image, thanks to ars tech
11 December 2008
A test geotagged entry
This blog is really just a test of the new geotagging option in the http://draft.blogger.com, I will make a longer blog entry later, when I am off the company's dime.
09 December 2008
new .mac
hmm, already behind in my blogging. Anway I am now a mac person, running a mac pro 15inch laptop at home. Kool. I have it up and running, with some important apps like matlab and firefox installed. Also have vmfusion running, with ubuntu image, so I am now trying to the mac and linux installs ready for use.
The mac is a bit different, but I think I am starting to get the hang of it. Well I should get back to what I have to do, at least its on linux at the office.
The mac is a bit different, but I think I am starting to get the hang of it. Well I should get back to what I have to do, at least its on linux at the office.
04 December 2008
.mac soon
I already twitted this, but I am just so happy that my new laptop is out of the factory and in the caring hands of FedEx. My time to switch is getting closer. This will be nice, pretty hardware, bsd based, running vmfusion so I can bounce between OS X, Windows, Red Hat, and Suse.
01 December 2008
dropbox
Well after having to go through all sorts of loops to get my homework off my old computer, I took it work on a thumb drive, since I wanted to print off the code. In a rush to get home, I left the darn thumb drive plugged into the computer.
Arg, okay, I have now signed up for DropBox and moving my gosh darn files to the freak'n cloud. Dropbox is nice as it has clients which work on windows, linxu, and mac (my new hardware, please apple ship it soon), as well as a web interface.
I have only pushed a couple files around, but it seems to do what I need. Thanks to LifeHacker for the comparison chart of on-line storage.
Arg, okay, I have now signed up for DropBox and moving my gosh darn files to the freak'n cloud. Dropbox is nice as it has clients which work on windows, linxu, and mac (my new hardware, please apple ship it soon), as well as a web interface.
I have only pushed a couple files around, but it seems to do what I need. Thanks to LifeHacker for the comparison chart of on-line storage.
Now, I have to sort out how to get the inverse chi2 cdf inside of Numpy. With that, I can do my error estimation and get this homework done. I till have 24 hours, so I should be okay.
Moving to a mac
Well it was a ugly Sunday, my custom built PC tower decided it had enough. It now likes to restart whenever it feels like it, with very little warning.
So Santa is coming early, and I am switching to a mac. I'd like to give you a long list of why it is better then a PC, but its more likely that it has to do with geek cred more the technical attributes. Actually, I plan to run vmfusion, giving me a way to switch between mac, PC, and the true geek os, linux.
I though about buy a laptop and just installing linux on it, but decided there are some apps I use for school where linux could cause a headache. Someday I'll get an eee or similar, for that native linux feel.
With this crash, the big issue was rescuing my homework, due Tuesday. When I have more time, I plan to use my maddog external drive box, where I can place an internal drive within it and then an use it externally, then snarf up the other stuff.
While it sucks, I did learn a few things
(1) I have a wonderful wife for encouraging me to spend more and go mac, just because I wanted to. (I new this already, but its nice to know she has not changed).
(2) I lost access to MATLAB, but on the alt pc I am using, found that NumPy/Python/IPython can handle the work I need.
(3) Need to find a cloud storage solution besides just emailing zip files around. Not for everything, but for those few critical files. I'd like to find on where I could access the cloud drive just like any other drive. I know they are out there, just have to do some searching.
I just just it proves, you learn from good and bad. I just wish I could learn the problem in my General Least Square solution, for the homework due tomorrow.
So Santa is coming early, and I am switching to a mac. I'd like to give you a long list of why it is better then a PC, but its more likely that it has to do with geek cred more the technical attributes. Actually, I plan to run vmfusion, giving me a way to switch between mac, PC, and the true geek os, linux.
I though about buy a laptop and just installing linux on it, but decided there are some apps I use for school where linux could cause a headache. Someday I'll get an eee or similar, for that native linux feel.
With this crash, the big issue was rescuing my homework, due Tuesday. When I have more time, I plan to use my maddog external drive box, where I can place an internal drive within it and then an use it externally, then snarf up the other stuff.
While it sucks, I did learn a few things
(1) I have a wonderful wife for encouraging me to spend more and go mac, just because I wanted to. (I new this already, but its nice to know she has not changed).
(2) I lost access to MATLAB, but on the alt pc I am using, found that NumPy/Python/IPython can handle the work I need.
(3) Need to find a cloud storage solution besides just emailing zip files around. Not for everything, but for those few critical files. I'd like to find on where I could access the cloud drive just like any other drive. I know they are out there, just have to do some searching.
I just just it proves, you learn from good and bad. I just wish I could learn the problem in my General Least Square solution, for the homework due tomorrow.
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