rich ruminations

• Project management! And listening to one of my favorite symphonies — Dvorak’s "From the New World" #
• People keep coming in an interrupting though… argh. #
• @charlesa BTW, I’ve got a half dozen programmers who will be coming your way looking for a dev branch! #

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We’ve been doing a lot of interviews for software developers at work lately, and this “overheard at a recent interview” item is quite relevant and hilarious.

• @leehinde no trouble porting… my number was main, did it last #

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• Decorating the tree… Sipping egg nog… #
• What’s this? @ john_steele is on twitter… #

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• @bryangreen classic "how to write an article from a press release" without writing anything original #
• @leehinde supposedly we have rights to the additional empty space in the building, which would double the capacity if we utilized it all #
• Doing Christmas decorations… Outdoors today, inside tomorrow. #

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• This is quite funny: http://tinyurl.com/2o6vfn #
• @charlesa I’m just waiting for resolution independence to be fully supported and exposed #
• Successfully configured and using Cisco VPN, Shimo with Leopard. #

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• @leehinde Not yet. #
• @charlesa No, and at this point I’d prefer they keep their hands off. #
• @leehinde Sure, I found that, but the UI is apparently unaware of print servers, and incapable of handling them. #

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The past several days the once speedy iPhone synchronization process had become glacial. By yesterday morning, a sync was taking 90 minutes.

I observed that the Microsoft Sync Manager was consuming large quantities of CPU frequently as well, and made a guess that Entourage calendar synchronization might be the root cause.

So, I rebuilt the Entourage database, deleted the Entourage calendar from iCal, relaunched Entourage and waited a few hours for it to reload all my email and calendar, re-enabled Entourage calendar synchronization, and now performance has returned to the previous speedy levels - just a minute or so.

Yet another justification for avoiding Microsoft products whenever possible. Unfortunately not possible in this case, as my employer uses Exchange, and refuses to enable IMAP email access — preventing me from using Mail.app. So the Mac users are forced to use Entourage. Yuck.

At least I can use OmniFocus for project management, Pages for word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets, and Keynote for presentations. All far, far superior to the Microsoft offerings.

This is somewhat awesome:

After years of development, a new class of weapon that uses computer-controlled electronic ignition instead of primers to fire projectiles may be finally taking its much coveted place in the U.S. military inventory.

Brisbane, Australia-based Metal Storm has delivered a four-barrel weapon to the Naval Surface Warfare Center for testing that uses a small electrical current instead a conventional firing pin to deliver stacked rounds at an astounding rate.

How astounding? Try 1 million rounds per minute.

Check out this video:

Via Instapundit.

• Argh… Leopard doesn’t have a Printer Setup Utility… and no apparent way to select a print server. #
• For me, PRC="Peoples Republic of China" so pretty much the same thing I guess. IT-wise anyway. #
• @leehinde Lee, are you joining us tomorrow evening? #

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• @bryangreen Hey, I -LIKE- WalMart! Wish we had a Walmart Superstore here… #

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• Errands… Alex haircut, pet food, then to try to sell the car at the high school. #

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• Leopard installed. Now downloading 10.5.1 update… #
• Starting the last day at PowerSchool’s Iron Point office… #

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• Hoping Bryan is able to get his Pearson email… #
• Now that 10.5.1 is out… wondering if I should take the plunge… #

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