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A ton of shit... Literally...

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[@363] A ton of shit… Literally… Yesterday we made another dump run. This time we enlisted the help of two of Vik's sisters. Total damage: 0.62 ton. Add…

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First Night

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[@411] First Night We are spending our first night at the new condo. It was kind of late by the time we got done with dinner, so we decided to stay instead o…

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Erik's Pulse: 2005-06-14

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Erik's weekly column published in the Javalobby Newsletter.

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Mac OS x86

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[@876] Mac OS x86 So Apple announced Mac OS X for x86… Hardly a surprise. Apple has been working on x86 support for many years, off and on. If you're expec…

What I'm wondering is… Who is going to keep on buying the current PPC-based Macs? Is Jobs really willing to forgo sales in order to insure that developers have plenty of time to…
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Slow Tiger Kernel

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[@376] HP Color LaserJet 2550L We bought an HP Color LaserJet 2550L for $360 at Costco yesterday. At first we picked another DeskJet but I couldn't find a su…

Bluetooh Print Adapater. The Bluetooth-enabled driver is built-in under Mac OS X 10.4. I'm using the HP Mobile Printing driver under Windows XP. One drawback so far, it's big. Slow Tiger Kernel As an alternative to the Cisco VPN client, we've been trying to get VPN Tracker to work on Vicki's powerbook. After a few calls to the IT department, we all decided that it would be best to talk to Equinux directly. We called them yesterday morning and were told without uncertainty that the Mac OS X 10.4 kernel is too slow to handle most VPN protocols. Apparently Apple has been made aware of the problem for a while now, and they are working on it. That would explain why Cisco was not able to get a new driver out in time for…
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05-05-05

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[@927] Tiger Install Error I just tried to install Tiger on my iMacDV. Didn't work. Gave me some kind of generic error. I really don't have time to look into…

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Moblog API

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[@439] Erik's Pulse has been published. 800 != 650 Apparently the Jabra BT800 Bluetooth headset is not fully compatible with the Treo 650. The issues are cur…

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