Category Archives: Techy

Programming! Also Linux, web design, hardware… But mostly programming.

Windows 7 64-bit ahoy!

Published: 19 May 2010
Look at this glorious screenshot taken from the system information of my desktop PC: You see that? All 4GB of my RAM are finally recognized by Windows 7! No more “4GB (3GB usable)”! I just now installed the 64-bit version because I’ve been having a slew of troubles with The Sims 3 in [...]
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TV update and Fat Princess tales

Published: 23 March 2010
Well, I’ve upgraded my TV. I purchased last night the ViewSonic VT2430 24-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV from Amazon and they emailed me this morning saying it shipped. I’m surprised; I chose Free Super Saver Shipping and figured it wouldn’t ship for a couple of days and then take a while to get here, [...]
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dying motherboard?

Published: 22 March 2010
I think my PC’s motherboard is dying. The other day while playing The Sims 3, my monitor suddenly displayed its “no signal” message and went to a black screen. I checked the cord plugged into the monitor as well as the end plugged into the computer, and both were firmly in place. [...]
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selling furniture and my dad on Twilight

Published: 16 March 2010
I had the sneaking suspicion that when I bought my PS3, it might make me long for a nicer TV. That suspicion has turned into reality after bringing my PS3 home to let my brother try NCAA Football 2010 on it, and playing Bayonetta using his widescreen plasma TV. The text in Antonio’s [...]
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beat Bayonetta

Published: 15 March 2010
I beat Bayonetta already, but perhaps I should note I was playing it on Easy. I had first started the game in Normal mode, the hardest difficulty available, but after dying like crazy trying to get through one area, I switched it to Easy and just carried on like that. I’m playing through [...]
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got a PS3

Published: 4 March 2010
Just a quick note to say Best Buy happened to get some 120GB PS3’s in today and I just happened to call at the right time, squeal “Omigod, can you hold one?!”, and buy one. :) I couldn’t find Eternal Sonata at either Best Buy or Gamestop, so I ended up with Bayonetta [...]
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PS3’s hard to find

Published: 27 February 2010
I just wanted to buy a 120GB Playstation 3 but apparently everyone around here is sold out of them. I figured the console has been out for a few years and the 120GB version came out in I think September, so I didn’t even consider that they would be hard to come by. [...]
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convenient file searching with Ruby, grep, and file

Published: 23 February 2010
For my Linux kernel class, I often know that some struct exists somewhere, or remember seeing a macro defined in some file and it might be useful, but I can't remember where I saw something. I also end up trying to track down all the places a particular function is called, and don't want [...]
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representing rational numbers in Smalltalk

Published: 7 February 2010
For my graduate-level programming languages class, I wrote this class that represents a rational number in Smalltalk. I figured I would share my source code with the interwebs for anyone else trying to learn the language. I release the code under the GNU General Public License v3. Note for students: my professor requested [...]
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the pain of Facebook application development

Published: 2 February 2010
For the past few days, I’ve been trying to create a Facebook application for interacting with Github. I hoped to spend my time mainly on the Github portion, figuring out how to post wall posts on Facebook about recent Github activity, etc. However, I’ve instead argued with the various Facebook APIs. I [...]
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