Nick Bastin

My frustration with the performance of SMB is really starting to push me over the edge (oh, so that’s what’s doing it, you say?). SMB, sadly, appears to be the only widely available and supported network filesystem left. You might argue that NFS is still relevant, but it really isn’t – even on [...]

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I finally broke down and ordered a Das Keyboard Professional. It has had several good mentions over at StackOverflow and I have had zero luck walking down the aisle of keyboards at MicroCenter/BestBuy/CircuitCity and finding anything that felt better than plastic depressing into Jello. The standard Apple keyboard on my Mac Pro has [...]

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Yes yes, I’m back to my non-posting ways. Woe is me.
The good news (sortof…) is that both of my talks were accepted for PyOhio. The bad news, of course, is that now I have to write them both, but I suppose it’s not nice to complain about an embarrassment of riches…
I still have [...]

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The Kindle DX seems entirely like a newspaper/magazine replacement, and not so much for books. The $489 price tag is drawing screams from the blogosphere for being far too high, but it’s ridiculously cheap if you really want the New York Times. Of course, the question is if they can convince people to [...]

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After playing with my Android phone (T-Mobile G1) for a couple weeks, as well as iPhones in the past, it seems to me that high resolution LCDs with the latest generation touch technologies are a fertile ground for desktop application development. Obviously I’m not the first person to this party, since HP has a [...]

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