D’oh, and I just bought another hard disk!

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

Blogging your way to unemployment

So the New York Times is running an article For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé (soul-sucking registration possibly required), talking about the apparently growing trend in employers consulting Google, MySpace, LiveJounral, Facebook and similar sites when reviewing graduating applicants. In summary: employers are turned off by poorly written rants on the writers’ most recent… Read more

Darkzone

So last night Sarah organised for a bunch of people to play Darkzone, in Box Hill. I was surprised actually at who came – Sverra, Adele & Michael, and so forth. They all travelled quite some way (well, with the exception of Sarah of course), which is a rare effort for them. Anyway, it was… Read more

Ain’t computers great

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

Stupid Intel

Yeah yeah, I suppose I’m just going to have to get used to it now with Apple moving to x86, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. I’m talking about the wrong endianness, of course: little-endian. That’s what the problem was with the directory recursion; I was reading the cluster address as big… Read more

Interesting file names

Yes, I think it’s broken. 😜 On the upside, “Code” definitely is a directory. 🙂 /Users/wadetregaskis/Documents/School/Fifth Year/ENP/Project/FATShell/FATDriver.c:514 (FATOpenFile) – Current offset: 96/Users/wadetregaskis/Documents/School/Fifth Year/ENP/Project/FATShell/FATDriver.c:534 (FATOpenFile) – Current condensed directory entry: AC/Users/wadetregaskis/Documents/School/Fifth Year/ENP/Project/FATShell/FATDriver.c:514 (FATOpenFile) – Current offset: 128/Users/wadetregaskis/Documents/School/Fifth Year/ENP/Project/FATShell/FATDriver.c:534 (FATOpenFile) – Current condensed directory entry: CODE /Users/wadetregaskis/Documents/School/Fifth Year/ENP/Project/FATShell/FATDriver.c:491 (FATOpenFile) – Current block logical address: 19374080/Users/wadetregaskis/Documents/School/Fifth Year/ENP/Project/FATShell/FATDriver.c:514 (FATOpenFile)… Read more