Thoughts and Ramblings

General things I find of interest.

2024

12/16 — Nix on Mac
11/20 — Our Bureaucracy
08/10 — Badblocks
03/25 — Only Tax Payers Vote
03/24 — Deep State
03/23 — Our "Democracy"
03/22 — "Our" Democracy

2023

10/10 — 3 Seasons on a Streaming Service
09/21 — Waiting to Start Watching a Show

2022

12/12 — New Internet Service
09/23 — App Disk Images
09/09 — Redesign of Time Machine
08/02 — Mike's Old Car
07/28 — Grace has $20 in Her Account
07/15 — My Current Media Setup
07/12 — Switched to Hugo
04/30 — Using Netflix DVDs to Measure The Post Office Decline

2021

08/17 — GF(5^2)
05/21 — The Appearance of Truth

2020

03/10 — A Litany of Netflix Screw-ups

2019

11/04 — Plex Media Player Appliance Using Ubuntu

2018

12/21 — Using ACLs to Solve Permissions Issues
07/25 — Why I Cancelled Netflix
06/05 — Are Apple's Best Days Behind Us?

2017

08/23 — Consistent 24p on OpenPHT
06/01 — My experience with Plex and an HD HomeRun on Suddenlink
01/17 — Docker in FreeNAS 9.10 (Part 2)
01/12 — Docker in FreeNAS 9.10

2016

08/18 — Split Home Networks
06/02 — iTunes Music Skipping in Background

2015

12/28 — FreeNAS Internal Backups
02/20 — Yosemite Install Can't Be Verified
01/22 — Not All Packets Are Equal

2014

2013

11/23 — Disabling Nvidia
06/12 — Mobile Passwords
04/29 — A Month with AppCode
03/10 — Using Single Vendor Credit Card Numbers with Amazon
02/20 — Suddenlink's Speed
02/05 — What Objective-C Has Learned

2012

11/10 — Tooling Matters
06/05 — My Media Setup
05/21 — So Long Perian
04/17 — What Objective-C can learn from Java, Part 5 (Exceptions)
04/01 — Switched to Linux

2011

12/18 — Goodbye Roku, Hello GoogleTV
11/29 — The Case for Ripping Media
10/15 — FreeBSD with ZFS root
01/08 — What Objective-C can learn from Java, Part 4 (Namespace)

2010

12/30 — What Objective-C can learn from Java, Part 3 (Single Source File)
12/27 — What Objective-C can learn from Java, Part 2 (Abstract Classes)
12/04 — What Objective-C can learn from Java, Part 1 (Generics)
10/16 — Trac.fcgi Memory Usage
10/09 — Google Link Redirection (cont.)
09/05 — Why you shouldn't buy A Flip Camera
08/31 — Googleâ€™s Link Redirection
07/17 — Text Compression Code Released
06/16 — ZFS on Western Digital EARS drives
04/07 — ZFS on different sized disks
02/27 — Common Media Player Framework
02/13 — Passed My Defense

2009

09/10 — Incorrect Podcast Order on my iPod
07/29 — Text Compression Techniques
07/28 — New Car
07/25 — Using Newer Subversion in Xcode
05/20 — Working With Core Data
03/25 — Growing Sense of Entitlement
03/18 — Why I Hate Microsoft Software
02/25 — Digital TV Delay
01/05 — Bad DVD Packaging

2008

12/28 — Fighting with Sync by Microsoft
10/22 — How to Not Recruit
10/01 — Thrashing Server
09/16 — Firewall Ban Activated
09/15 — Turn the Firewall Around
08/05 — Decline of Local Bookstores
06/28 — Wall•E
06/13 — Xcode Filling Log Files
06/09 — AC3 Passthrough Compatibility Matrix
05/29 — Rescuing videos from AVI
04/26 — Java in Xcode
04/23 — Limited Real AC3 Passthrough
04/21 — Expensive Hotels internet access
04/21 — The Hall of Shame
04/14 — Start of Infocom
04/04 — New iPod Touch
03/14 — Where's real AC3 Passthrough on the Mac?
02/09 — The Correct Way to Enable AC3 Passthrough with Quicktime
02/09 — Followup to Open Source Attitudes
02/07 — Perian 1.1 Released
02/01 — Sourceforge SPAM
01/31 — The Road to Perian 1.1

2007

12/19 — Google's Analytics Mistake
12/11 — Switching back to Safari
12/11 — Apple has become the new Microsoft
12/03 — Sapphire Plugin
11/27 — Key Fixed
11/14 — Sometimes you just got to laugh
11/11 — Broken Key
09/30 — Custom RSS Feeds
09/26 — Analytics
09/24 — Recruiting week
08/26 — Ripping DVDs to play on the AppleTV
08/06 — Quick vacation for the weekend
08/06 — New Hardware
06/29 — Perian 1.0 Released
06/19 — Open Source Attitudes
06/18 — Perian Woes
06/12 — Why Me?
06/12 — New Safari
06/05 — Seeing the Railroad Bridge
05/08 — Nearing Release
04/25 — Verify your burns
04/25 — Ditching VPN
04/07 — AC3 and Passthrough on the AppleTV and Macs
04/05 — Career Center's Scam
03/29 — Cell phone's battery
03/24 — Messina Hof
03/22 — New Cell Phone
03/20 — Spring Break
03/20 — Branchless Code
02/24 — Fire's Death
02/24 — I finally Quit
02/24 — Fixing File Transfer
02/02 — New Semester
01/06 — Site Block in Search

2006

2005

12/07 — Semester Ending
11/30 — Thanksgiving Weekend
11/22 — More Computers
11/21 — Laptop replacement
11/19 — More laptop
11/16 — Laptop
11/16 — Late
11/13 — More games
11/11 — Week with a few games
11/09 — Silliness to start
11/07 — Project
11/03 — Slow weekend and week
11/03 — Trudging through
11/01 — Yet another week
10/31 — Stuck doing jobs
10/31 — Blast from the past
10/30 — Return to blogging after nearly a year
10/30 — Start of Category
10/30 — Ending
10/30 — In the next year

2004

11/19 — WoW and camera
11/05 — Yes, work!
11/05 — Project and Traces
11/05 — Categories
11/03 — Over a month
09/27 — Nearly a month, let lazyness abound
08/24 — 20 days, gosh I am lazy
08/04 — Two weeks
07/16 — Another week
07/09 — Spam
07/05 — work, work, work
06/28 — Interesting day
06/25 — Busy day
06/24 — Not much going on
06/17 — Been a while
06/08 — Swimming to school
06/05 — Getting work done
05/18 — No one is here
05/16 — Lazy Sunday
05/15 — Move out
05/11 — Strange Week
05/08 — Another lazy Saturday
05/07 — Back from Vacation
04/25 — Another Month Later
03/18 — One month later
02/17 — Next Day
02/16 — 2 months!

2003

12/03 — Semester coming to a close
11/09 — Order Here
10/30 — Screen here
10/21 — Busy, Busy, Busy
10/01 — End of another day
09/27 — First Post