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Let’s see if we can’t put some chumps out of business.

F’ing awesome.

So I just saw the comic for Google Chrome and I must say that I am really looking forward to it. In fact, it has me looking into other Google products. I’m trying to pick a topic to write on for a “Knol” but I’m not sure which at the moment. Likely whatever I choose I’ll mirror on here. Anyway, I’ll be trying it tomorrow and likely giving my two cents in the next few days. I’d really like to get a good screen capture software too…

I finally found a way to perfectly sync Google Calendar with iPhone in 3 one-time easy steps. Unfortunately it requires iCal and a Mac.

1. First, go to this page and follow the instructions: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358
2. Set up your calendars in iCal properly.
3. Connect your iPhone and sync.

Your iPhone should automatically sync and update google calendar whenever iCal is open to update the events. This is by far the best free alternative and ensures that all your events are in sync and properly formated.

I was thinking about a statistic I had seen the other day about how only a little over 1/3 of Americans believe that the death penalty is immoral and should be removed from the justice system. I find it actually quite appalling, since I happen to be a staunch opponent of the death penalty for a number of reasons. It is for this reason that I’m writing this article. I hope that some people will read it and have it open their eyes to the complete foolishness of the death penalty.

I believe there are two types of individuals in this issue. People that have really thought about it, and people that haven’t (or won’t). People that have really thought hard about it may have originally been for it, or following some chain events, came to analyze the mounds of sociological evidence and decided against it. Or rather, they carefully examined the reasoning behind their morality, and found it to be contradictory. Those who haven’t thought about it usually have some pretty shallow justifications for their beliefs. Beliefs that are not ground in morality or logic, but in raw emotion. Unfortunately for them, raw emotion doesn’t make you right or rational.

So what I’m going to do is this. I’m going to prove that if you believe in the death penalty, you are irrational (meaning you aren’t using logic in your argument and therefore your argument is not valid), and furthermore, I’m going to prove that you don’t care about anyone but yourself. In short, I’m going to try and make you look like a bad person. If you don’t support the death penalty, then you have nothing to worry about. Don’t believe me…follow carefully. Oh and I promise to be a little less bias in the rest of the article.

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Tons of work to do this weekend. The good news is that the term is starting to wrap up, which means I’ll have a couple weeks of free time. I’ll deffinately use that to spruce up the site and get some more information up.

Anyway, plenty of work to do.

Fairly straightforward but hopefully this will be of some help to people just starting out on Mac and have some familiarity with linux and the bash shell.

If you want to alias certain variables or commands, you want edit your bashrc file, usually found in the home directory on linux. In Mac OS, however, the location is slightly different. If you want to save yourself some time in the future create a symlink to the bashrc file in your home directory like this. Open up the terminal and make sure you are in your users home folder (you should be by default). Next type this:


ln -s /etc/bashrc ./.bashrc


Now you have a link to the bashrc right in your home directory. By default, you have to sudo to change the contents of the file. Best not to change that to make more convenient (especially if you are sharing a Mac with someone). Edit the file like so (use any text editor you prefer):


sudo vim .bashrc


You can now just add your alias lines to the bottom of your file. Then type “:wq!” to force a save and quit. If you don’t know how to use vim, best if you find a tutorial elsewhere. There are tons and its a vital skill. Here is an example of a simple alias line to change my ls to display colors:


alias ls="ls -G"


Always remember to restart the shell session when you change the .bashrc so it reloads your custom aliases.

Alright pretty simple huh?

So I basically found out that Bluehost and Hostmonster were based in Utah and likely controlled by the Mormon church. While I have no overt dislike of Mormons, I did take issue with the fact that they censor your web content hosted on their servers. I wasn’t about to stand for that. Anywho, I luckily found what seems to be the most incredible web host ever…dream host.

If you are thinking about webhosting a highly recommend them. You can also get the first subscription for insanely cheap with a $97 discount! Just search google for Dreamhost discounts.

I remember when I first heard about hacking your PSP to put custom firmware, I was totally excited about it. Mostly because I knew that my PSP would turn into not only a portable playstation, but a portable NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Gameboy, GBA… you get the idea. So I decided to finally get a PSP, but by the time that I got one, they already had the newer models out, and I got a “Slim” PSP which was lighter and thinner than the original. “Alright I thought…It’s fine it’s just the newer model”. Unfortunately, a number of problems arise when it came to loading the CFW (Custom Firmware). Eventually I was able to load it but I was extremely disappointed to find out that many emulators didn’t work for Slim. I thought all hope was lost. I settled for some shitty NES version with bad resolution and moved on. That was until I found a thread post with a link to a pack of emulators that were completely compatible with the PSP Slim.

Yes you heard me right. All of these emulators work nearly 100% (as far as I’ve tested). The pack contains and emulator for nearly every kind console as well. I’ve included below the link to the File Planet mirror. I’ve also decided to host it here since I am not making use of all of my available bandwidth. Also, since emulators are not illegal, I’ll host as many as I want and no one can say anything about it :-p.

Known Compatibility Issues:

NES

* I’ve noticed that the NES emulator does not close smoothly, results in the PSP shutting off after you exit. Otherwise it seems to work fine.

Downloads:

• Click here to download from FileFront
• Click here to download from danielsousa.info (likely very slow, but it’s here in case FileFront goes down)

So my buddy was setting up eclipse on his Mac and got the following screen. Pretty funny, but nice to see that open source can make mistakes (contrary to what some may believe) .

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