Entries from March 2006

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Cross your fingers

Ok, so some fun stuff happened.

got a new MacBook Pro (it rocks)
got a new roomate.
got a new tv (thanks roomate)
upgraded his tivo to a million hours.
going to visit Tom and Alex for spring break.
took mid-terms.
got accepted to SFSU’s study abroad program at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Whoa. That last one is pretty heavy. So [...]

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Comics, Metal, and Epic Novels

So, yesterday I was reading Questionable Content (don’t worry, the content isn’t very questionable) and came across this strip. This comic is kind of like a soap opera for alternative/indie-music nerds, so I have no idea why I started reading it.
Anyhow they referenced a hardcore-ish rock band named “Mastodon” who put out an entire album [...]

Monday, March 27th, 2006

HOWTO: Make Terminal.app behave properly

This is just a pet peeve I have with Mac OS X’s Terminal.app. PageUp, PageDown, Home, and End control the line buffer saved in Terminal.app, but doesn’t control those features in whatever program you’re using.
For example, if you’re using vim, emacs, or you’re ssh’ed into another computer and using a command-line irc client (in [...]

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Fun with hardware

Well, school has kept me really busy recently, and if that weren’t enough, I’ve got a bunch of hardware projects going on around the house.  Some of them are fun.
First off, my new roomate moved in, and he’s got a nice big screen TV and Tivo.  We’ve been playing around with Tivo Desktop, transfering files [...]