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Overriding EEE PC’s drive letter assignment for USB devices
When you plug a USB device into the EEE PC, it makes it look like it has a Windows drive letter by mounting it on something like /media/D: This is fine for a lot of stuff, but I have a … Continue reading
Pondering the stack
I’ve got a lot of interesting stuff queued up, but I lack the time to play around with it. But I promise to get to them soon and blog/twitter/flickr/blip.tv all about them: Chemistry set I’ve been helping out with the … Continue reading
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A hard drive crash with a happy ending
Yesterday afternoon, I returned to my desk to find my Mac frozen. When I rebooted, the hard drive started making horrible noises, so there was no question that my 200GB Hitachi drive had crapped out. Fortunately, Time Machine had my … Continue reading
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Maker Store Stories: Kit makers
I got home late afternoon Tuesday, and I’ve had a few days to reflect on the fun I had at Maker Faire. This was my third Maker Faire, but only the second one that I really worked at (at the … Continue reading
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Clayton Christensen on Apple vs. Nokia (Nokia FTW)
Originally posted on the BIF Speak blog. Walt Mossberg continued his conversations on day 2 of BIF-3, bringing storyteller Clayton Christensen up on stage. It was refreshing to see Christensen say that the cell phone is poised to disrupt the … Continue reading
Note to Future Self: Causes are Never Obvious
I installed Vista under Boot Camp today, and my Mac wouldn’t boot into Mac OS X afterwards. It was sitting there on the blue screen with the mouse cursor. Of course I blamed it on boot camp at first. I … Continue reading
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Does the Vista EULA Really Prohibit Virtualization?
I don’t think so, and here’s why. The EULA that this post refers to says (emphasis mine) “You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.” I’m certainly not a … Continue reading
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Remove Boot Camp Partitions from a Three Partition Setup
A while back, I split my MacBook Pro hard drive into three partitions so I could have a small FAT32 partition for sharing files between Windows and Mac OS X. After getting a dedicated Vista system, I wanted to delete … Continue reading
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Geeks <3 Nintendo
Joey deVilla: “at the June 2006 RailsConf, which had a number of the thought leaders in new-school web development in attendance, the DS was the second-most popular machine there, just behind Mac notebooks and ahead of Wintel laptops”
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BIF-2 Summit: Hugh Herr
Hugh Herr told us that from the knee down, he’s all nuts and bolts: his legs were amputated below the knee after a mountain climbing accident. He was told he’d never climb a mountain aain. The turning point was when … Continue reading