Holy crap.. I’ve been busy for so long that my own login cookie expired! Suffice to say that between Spacesystems Design, Advanced Mechanics of Structures, and Spacecraft Dynamics its been a brutal few weeks at Skule. I’m now in somewhat of a brief respite, you could say a lull before the storm of Midterms. Once Midterms [...]

No, I’m not getting my GM models mixed up. Malibu Boats has been selected to produce the next model of the Corvette Limited Edition Sport-V towboat. Malibu Boats has produced two previous models of the Corvette boat, one based on each of the C4 of C5 generations of Corvette. As some of you know, my family [...]

We have a course this year called AER407 - Space Systems Design. Here’s the course description from the Engineering calendar: The course covers the conceptual and preliminary design phases for a space system currently of interest in the Aerospace industry. A team of visiting engineers provide material on the various subsystems and share their experiences working [...]

I found this short essay by Orson Scott Card (author of the ver popular Ender’s Game series) floating around the intertubes. I thought it was a fairly good read, and its also pretty short. So here, take a look: How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing [...]

Note: I am running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) LTS I recently set up my desktop computer in Toronto to accept SSH connections, and opened the port (22) on my router so that I could remotely manage my computer whenever I go back to Peterborough. I played around with port tunneling too, which basically tunnels any TCP [...]

I don’t like to dwell on articles that I have read on Matt Good’s blog, but I felt this particular entry deserved a little bit of attention. I’d like to thank Matt for being so open with his fan base; many of us have grown with him these past few years, and I’m sure I [...]

Its September and I’m settling back into the groove of Skule for one more year. Of course you all know what that means, right? Television shows are returning to bathe us in their electronic glow! I’m finding that I have a lot of shows that I want to watch this year, like Battlestar Galactica, Scrubs, [...]

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Reverend Yearwood follows up on his arrest Monday in a video interview, see below:

I came across a nifty little trick today (reference here) for hiding files and folders in Nautilus that you can’t move or rename, such as lost+found in a partition’s root directory. The trick is to create a text file called .hidden in the same directory as the file or folder you want to hide, and [...]