Sunday October 28, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
7 Comments
So, along with my glowing accolades of a few days ago, I’ll offer a little painful reality. The T61, as I said, is a heck of a nice little machine. Fast, smooth, quiet, and the works. However, there are a … Continue reading
Saturday October 27, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
5 Comments
Okay, first off, the ScribeFire Firefox extension is pretty cool. It would be a good thing for some Open Usability folks to help out, but the extension itself seems pretty functional. One large thing, though, is that there is no … Continue reading
Saturday October 27, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
8 Comments
Since I have several times been rather loud in my… we’ll call it “encouragement”… for Google to provide IMAP access to their hosted GMail mail, it’s only fair that I’m equally loud in my gratitude and accolades now that they’ve … Continue reading
Friday October 26, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
15 Comments
I did a small performance test yesterday and was very surprised by the results. I wanted to see which encrypted filesystem was faster betweeen Truecrypt and LUKS. I created 2 20-gig files, one with Truecrypt and the other with LUKS … Continue reading
Thursday October 25, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
4 Comments
Technology had several glorious victories at my desk today. First, I was fortunate enough to get a very nice dual-head GeForce Nvidia card installed on my 4-way AMD 64-bit cpu server at work. It goes very nicely with the two … Continue reading
Wednesday October 24, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
11 Comments
This place is SO amazingly, refreshingly, awesomely, mind-bogglingly, ground-breakingly (yes, that’s a new word), life-changingly (write that one down), career rejuvenatingly, totally, totally cool. I am seeing the world through new eyes, truly. I am in awe. I am absolutely … Continue reading
Friday October 19, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
5 Comments
Today was my last day with my (before today) current employer. It has been a really, really, really bizarre and surreal day. 2 weeks for that matter. I caught myself several times shocked that I wasn’t more overwhelmed by the … Continue reading
Thursday October 18, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
10 Comments
Blame it on Seb, but I’ve been using Gmail’s web interface lately. This is partly because I’m in the middle of another life-changing job transition (but this one I’m really excited about, aside from the great white sharks and the … Continue reading
Thursday October 18, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
6 Comments
My darling daughter was quick to fill me in on a bit of news garnered by some educational television programming the other day: I’m apparently relocating my little brood to The Red Triangle. Oh good. And here I was, just … Continue reading
Wednesday October 10, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
1 Comment
Seriously, Keychain, where have you been all my life?