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Amazing…
Something tells me this guy can type ~300 words per minute.
New Sonicwall TZ150 = better/faster Team Fortress 2!
I just replaced the Linux firewall I was using with a small Sonicwall TZ150. It’s their low-end SOHO model but has a nice management interface and offers some of the features of the more expensive models. A very nice surprise: latency (i.e. ping time) in Team Fortress 2 is substantially less than it was before. [...]
Cool Canon camera hack
Lifehacker has an interesting article on using CHDK (“Canon Hacker’s Development Kit”) to mod your Canon P&S camera to open up all sorts of interesting features. The best thing, from my initial read, is that the hack is non-destructive, doesn’t require any firmware flashing, and is accomlished simply by copying some files to the SD [...]
Macbook Pro update
So after a few weeks with the new MBP here are some thoughts:
Pros:
It’s nice to have a machine that will run OS X, various flavors of Windows, and has a Unix core. This is particularly attractive to me as a tech consultant, although I’d hazard a guess that a very large percentage of Apple fans [...]
Ferrari F1 video
Nicely done commercial w/ Ferrari F1 footage on Metacafe
New MacBook Pro has arrived
I’m the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro. I went for the more portable 15″ version and so far it has been great. Leopard’s underpinnings are very familiar to anyone who is coming from a Linux or Unix background and as usual the Apple build quality is exceptional. Although I have to say I’m [...]
Lots to catch up on…
I’ve been neglecting the blog for far too long – lots to catch up on. In mid-March I left my job at Prosum to go semi-independent. Since then I’ve been working on a big SharePoint project at Toyota helping them envision and deploy an enterprise-wide SharePoint 2007 infrastructure. The project is a very large MOSS [...]
More news of the mothership’s arrival :)