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XP Home for Development…. Try a Mac!
I switched from a Laptop running XP Home and a Desktop running Redhat Linux over to a Powermac G4 Desktop w/ Mac OS X and a Powerbook G4 for development work simply because I saw it as a better environment.
Try using a Windows box for development using open source technologies and you’re just asking for ongoing problems – NFS is kludgly, PHP/MySQL is kludgly, and the list goes on.
I’m glad she’s pregnant – and i’m not the father!. One of my colleague’s on maternity leave, so I am borrowing her notebook for the time being. It seems my notebook is severely plastered. The poor abused machine has bad sectors in every partition, and the hardware is hobbling.
The notebook i am using has XP home edition installed, and it’s simply terrible for development work. It appears that there is something wrong with XP and Samba – file-sharing is very slow. Also the home edition appears to have some subtle limitations: incompatibilities with Oracle and other development software. So i’m installing Windows 2000 server on it. This is going to be good practice for the next PC i’m going to be installing to. On Friday, we are ordering a very nice notebook, P4 2.66 Ghz, 512 Mb RAM, 40 Gb HD, with built-in wireless.
Tomorrow is labour day. It’s been a tough two weeks. Last week, one of our clients had a major hardware crash. Then my notebook died this week. And my house modem got fried in a thunderstorm on Sunday. Fortunately my headaches are not as painful as having a baby. But I need a rest too.
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Powerful Messages
Pretty tough to send a message that’s any more powerful than the one that we sent with this war in Iraq… and the war previous (and still today) in Afghanistan. I think we made things pretty clear.
What remains to be seen is if the world gets the message or not…
Rumsfeld Says U.S. Victory Will Serve as Powerful Message. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also said today that he was confident Saddam Hussein would be found if he is alive and his weapons of mass destruction uncovered. By Reuters. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Roll your own Tivo
Kerri, you listening? 😉
Building your own Tivo. via Gizmodo: an article at ExtremeTech on building your own Tivo. I’m not planning on going through with it. But,… [I have a brain cloud]
CSS Zen Garden Project
Graphic artists can flex CSS muscle in Dave Shae’s new CSS Zen Garden project. Read the introduction over at Mezzoblue. Via Stopdesign.
Let’s do it.. Boston.PHP
Any Interest in Boston.php ?. Any Interest in Boston.php ?
I noticed at php-con that while there is a New York area php user’s group and there are other groups all over, there doesn’t seem to be one in Boston. Anyone out there interested in such a thing? I know Andrei’s here as is Kellan and others. And I’m here for whatever that’s worth.
Basic concept would be similar to what the Boston.pm (perl mongers) folk do — get together once a month, geek about technical stuff and then end up somewhere for a variant on pizza & beer.
Happy to organize it and run a mailing list for it although since I don’t work a big company, I don’t have a place to host it (although I’m sure that’s addressable).
[The FuzzyBlog!]You’re so Vain…
You walked into the party
Like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they’d be your partner
They’d be your partner, and
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?
You had me several years ago
When I was still quite naive
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?
Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you’re where you should be all the time
And when you’re not, you’re with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you? Don’t you?
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain (so vain)
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you? Don’t you?