Archive for February, 2005
Sunday, February 20th, 2005
Friday night, Ariele and I had Mike and Paul over to my place for dinner. Ariele made a stir fry with both tofu and fake beef. The fake beef was made by a company called Lightlife, and I have now had three of their products. In addition to the fake ...
Posted in Food | 7 Comments »
Thursday, February 17th, 2005
I just read the second part of AnandTech's review of OS X, and this review was focused on the PowerBook G4 (whereas the last review focused on a dual G5 desktop system). I hope I am not misleading people by claiming these are pure reviews of OS X. The two ...
Posted in Apple | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
Adam sent me a link to an AnandTech review of Apple's OS X, and I have to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Granted, the review is of a dual 2GHz G5 system, but the reviewer spends a great deal of time discussing OS X and its various advantages ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Richard Stallment (president of the Free Software Foundation) wrote an article for CNET today in which he describes his view on software patents in general. Mr. Stallman's article is in response to Bill Gates' continual push for proprietary standards that specifically aim at excluding free and open source software from ...
Posted in GNU/Linux | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 14th, 2005
Today was a reasonably low key Valentine's Day for me. I had my CFD (computational fluid dynamics) class this morning, and I subsequently proceeded to start the coding for my CFD quarter project in earnest. We are supposed to solve the Navier-Stokes equations and the energy equation (with the Bousinessq ...
Posted in School | 6 Comments »
Sunday, February 13th, 2005
I went to Target today to pick up some toiletry items, and just as I pulled into the parking lot, I noticed an empty parking spot. This particular spot, however, was the furthest spot from the front door. I was forced to make a quick decision (another car was pulling ...
Posted in Musings | 4 Comments »