Welcome rebooters! You probably stumbled upon my site via the front page of CSS Reboot where this site is featured as one of 50 premium rebooters. My redesign for PaulStamatiou.com was supposed to come in time for my spring break but it took longer than expected so I launched it on March 31st, exactly one month ago, with this post. My old design, which I have released, was a skinny single-column mod of the K2 theme. The design you are currently looking at, dubbed Defiance, was my attempt at a more professional design allowing me to show more content (many of my guides are lengthy, making reading them on a skinny layout a challenge) and provide for easier navigation. [click to continue…]
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Take a look at this 5 minute screencast showing you how to make a simple, AJAX-ified web application that loads images from flickr using the Ruby on Rails platform. Many new database-backed web services are using Ruby on Rails to accomplish things with ease compared to the older PHP methods. I’m not one to code when bored but RoR is an intriguing open-source framework. Browsing at job listings, it seems that RoR is more and more frequently becoming a recommended skillset. [click to continue…]
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Wondering why one of your OS X applications seems a little sluggish on your Intel Mac? Maybe it is running through Rosetta translation and could be a PPC application. Well there is an easy way to find out via Activity Monitor. Fire up Activity Monitor in Applications » Utilities. You will see a column on the right labeled kind. Simply enough it tells you whether that application is “Intel” or “PowerPC.” This is especially good for Mac users that [click to continue…]
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Yes, dead week and finals have reared their ugly and mischievous heads. This is just a little fyi for everyone about a slow down in posts for the next week or so. On campus, dead week is the term for the week before finals week, supposedely exempt of all assignments, and it generally portrays two main emotions about students. There are the students bogged down with projects and assignments that get no sleep and then there are the students with nothing that are generally happy, don’t go to class, game all night or finish off their alcohol before their parents come up the next week. I am the student with lots of projects on my hands. Here’s a list. [click to continue…]
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Apple closed their online store this morning sometime around 8am and when it was back up less than an hour later the 17″ PowerBook G4 had vanished, with a shiny new 17″ MacBook Pro in its place. This new MBP is a comparative deal considering the 15incher. It features an astounding 1680×1050 resolution (the same as found on my 20″ Cinema Display), a 2.16GHz Core Duo processor, a 120GB 5400RPM hard drive (a faster 7200RPM 100GB model is an option), 1GB of DDR2-667 RAM, an 8X DL DVD burner and a FireWire 800 port all as standard, for $2799. This is actually the exact same price point [click to continue…]
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When Apple released Boot Camp, they made it easy for anyone to dual-boot their Intel Mac with OS X and Windows. A recent discovery from the people that were able to get Windows booting on an Intel Mac before Apple came along with Boot Camp allows you to triple boot with Linux. Unlike the Boot Camp method of installation, some advanced tinkering around with chainloading Linux’s lilo bootloader from the XP ntldr bootloader is required. It’s definitely clear that Apple’s Intel Macs are an extremely valuable commodity to the computer enthusiast, letting you run every OS under the sun. [click to continue…]
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If you have recently switched to an Intel Mac, you may have noticed that your favorite BitTorrent client, Azureus, does not work. Luckily, the Azureus wiki has a special build of the current version, 2.4.0.2, modified to work as a Universal Binary. Until there is an official UB for Azureus, this seems to work great. Download it directly. Hat tip to Felipe for the link.
Update: The download link no longer works. You might be able to find a UB version at GetAzureus.com soon, otherwise keep trying that link.
Update 2: Working download link thanks to Andrei’s comment.
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