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{ Monthly Archives } November 2009

Heavy metal

I have been checking out Mercurial and Bazaar the last while. Since Launchpad is a Bazaar crew (:^) and google code added Mercurial support I figured I better expand my world from SVN and git. My basic use case is to keep a central repo on my mini and then I can push/pull to the [...]

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When in doubt, ubuntu!

Since I picked up the wee netbook a couple of days ago I have been having a lot of fun discovering how far the linux desktop has come in the past few years. I have been running OS/X exclusively for the past, oh, 4 years or so and haven’t really spent a lot of time [...]

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Netbooks !macbooks

I got a bit of an education on netbooks today. It was bound to happen, sooner or later. Apple has really been getting to me lately, getting me down. So I first want to be able to go away without dragging that brick of a MacBook around with me, and even though it’s the latest [...]

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Hello world!

So I guess this is first post for the new domain. Actually, the domain wasn’t that new. I had it over at MediaTemple for a bit but what I didn’t realize when I signed up was they use Plesk for management. Dreamhost has totally spoiled me with their admin console. Plesk was like going back [...]

newLisp

I finally have been able to spend some time with newLisp. It’s a lot of fun and I have a feeling I’ll be keeping it in the arsenal. Besides messing around with the obvious web/cgi stuff with it, I wrote a scraper and ported an implementation of the ARC4 encryption scheme. (define (crypt data key) [...]

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