tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82205116953237662562012-01-15T23:16:11.871-05:00Here's a blog where I'll brain dump about technology, food, photography, and any other cool geeky things that cross through my mind.Robert Meneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05829109955607886242noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220511695323766256.post-90438136043309374222011-11-22T19:04:00.001-05:002011-11-22T19:10:17.489-05:00

Yes, I haven't updated my blog in over a year. Yes, I've neglected it. Very wrong of me. No, I'm not dead! One thing is for certain... like the legendary Phoenix, this blog is rising from the ashes! There's a new layout, and new articles related to even more subjects will be coming in! Over the course of a year, new subjects and old have come into my life, and now I've got THAT MUCH MORE

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Via 2 4 Flinching, check out these photos of the New York City Subway circa the 1980s: filthy, graffiti-ridden, dangerous, dark, cold, primal, raw, real. This is a New York City that, unless you were born in that era of the 1970s/1980s and grew up in or very near the city, you can only currently see in movies and TV shows, read about in books, or hear the vibe of in the music from that era. Our

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I want to put a new template on my blog, as I feel that the old template is simply not cutting it visually. So for the time being, things will look a bit off-kilter while I fix that. I'll try not to take too long with that, but now getting ready to move is going to cut into my free time a bit. If you have some good design know-how and any friendly advice to give in that matter, give me a holler.

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Seeing as how I've never used it, I decided to download Arch Linux and see what it's all about. My test subject machine for Arch is an Asus Eee PC 2G Surf, with an 800 MHz Celeron CPU (underclocked to 571 MHz), 512MB RAM, and 2GB SSD. I downloaded the netinst ISO of the latest release (2010.05 at the time of this writing), burned to CD, and installed with minimal effort. The SSD was divvied up

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And that's no lie! Until May 24th, Portal is free for download from Steam, as a celebration of the Mac OS X version of the popular gaming store and service. So grab yourself a slice of delicious cake and grab Portal for free! :)

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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Yes, it's absolutely, positively true! I thought the day would never come, but it did! A hacker by the name of planetbeing has posted a video on YouTube of what appears to be either Android 1.5 or 1.6 running on the iPhone. Before anyone says, "This looks shopped!" or "Fake!", read his blog post about this first, then watch the video of it in action (linked below). According to planetbeing,

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These pictures were taken using the FxCamera app for Android on my phone. The lomography setting in the app is amazing, with tons of options and flexibility. Personally, I am absolutely enamored with lomography now, and want to buy a camera. Click the images to view them in full-size.

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Looks like things are really heating up in the Ubuntu camp. Mark Shuttleworth, former CEO of Canonical, has just recently announced that the next version of Ubuntu (version 10.10) will be named "Maverick Meerkat".  The currently upcoming version, 10.04, is named "Lucid Lynx". Lucid Lynx, due by the end of this month, is shaping up to be a major transition for Ubuntu, and Linux in general. Its

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iSqueak is a port of Squeak, a Smalltalk environment, to the iPhone OS. So as they usually say: Got the urge to write Smalltalk on the iPhone? There's an app for that! There's a wealth of documentation at the Squeak for iPhone page located here.

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Laughing Squid has a recent article about the improving coffee situation in New York. At one point, it seemed that all coffee in NYC was going to be Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts or even McDonalds, but the advent of the small coffee shop is coming in full swing here. As a recent Brooklynite, one coffee shop I have become a fan of is Coffee Den near Red Hook. It's a small place, family and friend

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I read this rather amusing post on Boing Boing today, and thought it funny that a computer manufacturer advocated breaking DRM and ranting on EULAs, both of which are two things I despise.   This isn't quite a "rant about DRM and EULAs" post for me right now; I'll get to that later. In the meantime, you can read the original article here.

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David Byrne was at TED2010, and Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing managed to get an interview with him. The 10 minute audio interview is on Boing Boing's site, located at this page. I'll be taking a further listen to it and will write a bit more about it in a future post.

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Google Chrome has started to win me over on Linux and Windows, where it's starting to displace Firefox as my browser of choice. Its lightweight architecture, fast rendering engine, and smaller memory footprint make Firefox feel bloated in comparison. But the Mac version of Chrome was, for a long time, far behind the Windows and Linux versions in terms of certain features. One of these features

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Well, yes! Now that I think about it, what else do you call a blog that's about technology and food? Simple... you call it "More Blogs About Technology and Food". :) And the name itself was also inspired by the Talking Heads album "More Songs About Buildings and Food", which in itself was about, yes, buildings and food.

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Earlier today, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in California, Apple finally made the announcement: the rumored tablet computer was shown, and was given an official name now. Folks, say hello to the iPad! And as it's been shown today, reactions have been polarized. On one side are the people yelling out "ZOMG MUST BUY!!!!111!!1!", and on the other side are people saying that the iPad is

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I recently got myself a new toy to play with: an Xserve G5. The version I have, according to Mactracker, is the January 2005 model, which contains the following: Single PowerPC 970fx (G5) CPU clocked at 2.0 GHz 1 GB RAM 80GB SATA HDD ATI Radeon video card (specific model unknown) It's currently running the client (read: consumer) version of Mac OS X 10.4.11, but I'm looking to install either Mac

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One site that I follow a lot, Hack A Day, has just posted this story about how the Sony PlayStation 3 was hacked to have full read/write access, bypassing the Hypervisor. Homebrew software can't be too far behind now. :) Check out the link for more info.

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First post on a new blog. I'm going to get to enjoy this! I figured that if I ever want to comment or talk about anything, a blog is the best way to go about it. And there is much that I would love to talk about! So, to start... I'm a tech geek, open source advocate, budding foodie, beer snob, amateur photographer, software developer, and generally just full of crazy ideas. I live in Brooklyn,

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