Monday night I was working on our latest SSD assignment. The internet is the primary means of communication amongst our team members; we have an FTP share, a wiki, and a mailing list. Well, conveniently enough, my internet cut out. Repeatedly. I fought with it for about an hour before I gave up and walked [...]

There’s an article over at TorrentFreak, and here’s the article text: The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations. Around [...]

I found this at matthewgood.org; a great clip that speaks to some of the religious arguments surrounding stem cell research. Gone From Her Forever On a note related only in that I also saw this on matthewgood.org, I found the following to be a really powerful image that made me die a little on the inside. From the [...]

I recently installed the latest release of Ubuntu, version 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). So far, I have to say that I am pretty impressed with it. I hadn’t upgraded since Dapper (6.06), which means alot of my apps were out of date (I was using Firefox 1.5, Gaim 1.5, Azureus 2.5, Amarok 1.4.3, etc) and it [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

When Porsche released the Cayenne in 2002, I thought to myself “Porsche.. SUV.. Something doesn’t fit.” I’ve seen many of them on the road and I can’t say I’ve seen any of them display any real driving performance. It seems an odd relationship to their smaller, sportier cousins. Earlier today I read an article about a [...]

I found this while browsing randomly earlier today, thought I’d post it. Cute!

When I built my computer in the summer of 2003 (yes, it really is that old), I bought a Logitech MX Duo. This combo came with Logitech’s wireless Elite keyboard and wireless MX700 optical mouse. The keyboard has since broken, and I replaced it with an old used Logitech wireless keyboard that Glenn had lying [...]