- AIDS 2006
The AIDS 2006 conference is being both webcast and podcast. Now you can listen to all that world-changing rhetoric while on your run!
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Seriously, though, I think it’s pretty cool. I watched Bill Gates and Bill Clinton have a conversation. There’s also Bill Clinton and Stephen Lewis presenting.
Too bad Harper couldn’t make it. Mark Weinberg had [...] - Quicksilver vs. Spotlight
I use Quicksilver, which is essentially a program that gives access all my applications, documents, contacts, etc. by typing their name. Apple’s Spotlight is their desktop search, which searches all documents, contacts, etc. for whatever you type.
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
The major difference between the two is in application launching; Quicksilver does it, Spotlight doesn’t. At least, that was [...] - The arrival of television
Charlie came down this past weekend and brought the television. TV + cable = uh oh. I haven’t actually watched anything yet (still using the laptop for commercial-free goodness) but the temptation’s there.
Monday, August 14th, 2006
And the PS2’s here now too. Hmm… - Best use of treadmills, ever.
Saturday, August 12th, 2006 - Ubuntu Dapper boot issues
Monaco (my local Ubuntu box) recently refused to boot. This happened before, but I attributed it to hard drive problems. Not so.
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
The error I’d get is:
kernel panic - not syncing: vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (hd0,1)
Turns out grub keeps getting confused – (hd0,1) refers to hda1, but my boot partition is hda0. [...]