Ramblings

Well today was highly exciting… I spent most of it reinstalling MacOS X, and occasionally reading the ADD lecture notes. Yep, that’s about it. Very exciting times.

I just finished watching Plan 9 from Outer Space, finally. I started watching it months ago – I downloaded it last year – but ’till now just couldn’t bring myself to sit all the way through it. It was made a while ago, back in 1959, apparently before they invented acting. I think the most… Read more

I just watched the last episode of Lost season 2. I’ve been waiting ages to watch it… it was clear from the previous episode that nothing was actually going to be resolved. There were a few very obvious plot “twists” that were coming up, and they played out exactly as I expected. What did throw… Read more

So here I am flicking channels (all four of them) while I’m working on ENP, and what happens to be on but none other than Moama paintball. :) Awesome. It was one of those numerous holiday programs… Getaway or something I think. Whatever’s on channel 9 at 5:30pm on a Saturday. Anyway, I now know… Read more

I decided to kill the old eDrive I had on one of my portable disks, since from memory I created it under Panther anyway, and with all my spare hard disks and so forth I don’t think it gives me any advantage. Anyway, TechTool Pro originally created the eDrive by splicing it into an existing… Read more

There’s an excellent quote in our ENT (Entrepreneurship) lecture notes on IP (Intellectual Property): IP often provides the leverage needed for successful companies to stay ahead of the pack. That makes protecting your IP essential. After all, the only one who should benefit from your innovation is you, right?! [Emphasis added by yours truly] This… Read more

For security I’ve been storing all my work stuff on an encrypted disk image. I knew the dangers of this going in – not only was I taking a substantial risk using disk images at all, but I was going with a sparse image to boot. Must be that masochistic streak. Long story short, the… Read more