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I recently came into ownership of a 2008 unibody MacBook. One of the first aluminum ones. It’s been serving me well, and I recently replaced the unused DVD-ROM drive with a drive caddy containing a second SSD I had lying around. I didn’t really have a use for the space so I thought I would…
This is just a small update relating to Bell/Aliant FibreOp service in Canada. I’ve had FibreOp service since May of this year and I’ve been thoroughly pleased with it for the most part. The only real issue I’ve had is lack of support for standard features in the provided router like DHCP reservations and some…
As a follow-up to the previous entry where I wrote about trying to maintain a c++ application for work, I’ve begun a complete rewrite using C#. And not even a rewrite so much as a reimplementation. I’ve only been working at it for a few weeks now and already I’m pretty much at feature parity…
I’ve been spending the better part of the day wrangling with MS Visual Studio 9 as I try to become the maintainer for the client application written in C++ used by my company. Let me tell you, if that doesn’t sound like much fun, it’s even less. Generally things are working relatively well, but occasionally…