Monthly Archives: February 2006

Providence Geek Dinner: March 8

The second Providence Geek Dinner is coming up soon! Read all about it at the Providence Geeks weblog, and please RSVP there if you are coming.

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1987-2005

When I arrived on the URI campus in 1987, my idea of style was a leather trench coat and a briefcase. Add to that that I had just let Josh and my sister Shelli shave my head, and I figured … Continue reading

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Encrypted Disk Images? Never Mind.

jwz asks: “FileVault: good idea, or performance killer?” I’m not ready to turn my whole home directory over to FileVault, but I love using TrueCrypt on my Windows machines, so I figured I’d try putting some of my files on … Continue reading

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OpenSPARC

OpenSPARC Goals: “To significantly increase participation in processor architecture development and application design by making cutting-edge hardware IP freely available.” Getting the obvious Bart Simpson reference out of the way quickly (how long do you figure before they reword that … Continue reading

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Fedora Core 5 Test 2 on Virtual PC

I tried loading up FC5 test 2 on Virtual PC on my Mac, and the install went well, but the smoke test (rebooting into my new Linux install) failed miserably with some weird errors: bad: scheduling from the idle thread! … Continue reading

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Providence Geek Dinner Wednesday

Read all about it at the Providence Geeks blog. Be sure to post a comment over there if you are coming!

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