Notes on PRK eye surgery.

09.12.07

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So, about 5 weeks ago, I went in for PRK eye surgery, and now that there has been some time to heal and see the results, I thought I’d write a blog post about it to let people know how it went. There seems to be a lot of interest about the procedure out there on the internet, so I’m hoping someone finds this useful, if not at least an interesting read.

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UPnP AV streaming in Ubuntu with a D-Link DNS-323

03.06.07

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I’m writing this little tutorial because I couldn’t find the info nicely laid out anywhere else on the web.

So, about month ago I bought myself a D-Link DNS-323 NAS device. So far, it’s been pretty awesome (after I upgraded the firmware, at least), allowing for networked RAID-1, a built-in iTunes server, print server and streaming UPnP AV support, all for a pretty decent price. The first three on those list are a snap to set up, the fourth is a little more cryptic. UPnP, as far as I can tell, is usually meant to be used with a media server (something like a MythTV setup), rather than just for desktop users. I found very little info about how to connect to and play content from a UPnP AV server using a desktop software client. I did find, however, mention of djmount, a utility that allows you to mount a UPnP AV server’s content as a filesystem. Sounds great! However, getting it set up and functioning on my Ubuntu box was still anything but straight-forward. Here’s how I did it in Feisty.
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A plea for help

22.04.07

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Someone please release a decent scintilla based text-editor for OS X. Please? I’ve tried everything (and I mean everything), and nothing comes close to being as good as Notepad++. Komodo Edit comes really close, but it uses 60mb+ of RAM to do what Notepad++ or SciTE can do in <10mb. Plus, honestly, it’s kind of buggy, and no one needs buggy in their everyday work cycle.

I really wish I knew how to do desktop app development myself, because I am totally motivated to have this.

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