For years I have been keeping a small font printout of my important SSH and GPG private keys hidden and locked away for safe-keeping. I have lost enough floppies, CDs, and DVDs to bit rot, so I do not have...
Read the post →I updated the firmware on my X25-M today. It was a completely pain-free procedure. Just burn a CD, boot from the CD, say yes a few times, and reboot.
Read the post →The single most disappointing application that came installed on my T-Mobile G1 was the default email application. The very first thing I noticed was the horrendous IMAP support. I have a very well organized mail account. I might have a...
Read the post →I finally broke down and replaced my long in the tooth Palm Treo 650 with a T-Mobile G1 (a.k.a. HTC Dream). The only major complaint I had with the Treo was stability. It used to like to reboot itself about...
Read the post →Update: Fusecompress has been completely unmaintained for quite a long time.
Read the post →I upgraded my laptop to the 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic Koala beta yesterday. For me, Flash was very broken…
Read the post →I am pretty excited that yasnippet can now expand a snippet from inside another snippet. I've slowly been tweaking my own snippets to be able to better take advantage of this new feature. I've already gotten most of my Moose...
Read the post →There seem to be plenty of X25 performance benchmarks all over the Internet. Performance may have been one of the major reasons I upgraded my laptop to an X25, but it most certainly wasn't the only one.
Read the post →I thought it would be a good idea to run some quick benchmarks on my old mechanical drive before I wipe it and use it in another laptop. I have some pseudo-scientific charts and numbers here, but I also have...
Read the post →My shiny new 80 GB second-generation Intel X25-M has arrived. So far I am very happy with it, and it is very fast. I don't have many real numbers yet, just a couple of bonnie++ benchmarks:
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