Posts in Technology | Aaron Brethorst

Mar 26, 2005

Ax Shims

You probably don’t want to know…

Mar 21, 2005

Windows Media Center Edition 2005: Code 13 and 33 Errors

I just wanted to take a minute to blog this so that anyone else who gets stuck by it doesn’t need to go through all of the rigamarole I did to solve it. If you run into issues with synchronizing your TV program guide in Windows Media Center 2005,...

Mar 20, 2005

Technology

Using Visual Studio and Subversion?

Check out the AnkhSVN project at http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/…

Feb 25, 2005

Technology

Feature Creep

“Shipping is a feature.” – Attributed to Software Developers Everywhere

Feb 09, 2005

Technology

Interview with Neal Stephenson in Reason

Mike Godwin (best known from the EFF) with Neal Stephenson: It has been the case for quite a while that the cultural left distrusted geeks and their works; the depiction of technical sorts in popular culture has been overwhelmingly negative for at...

Jan 19, 2005

Technology

testing

I just walloped the database that runs this blog and I wanted to make sure everything’s still functional. super cool.

Aug 01, 2004

Technology

Geek Lust: Media PC

I’ve been lusting after the Media Center PCs that are out there for a while now. I’ve been planning on just building one for a while, but devices like this new Sony Media Center Edition machine just make me weak in the knees. This is also further...

Jul 26, 2004

Technology

Dead Dead Dead

I’m at a loss as to what I’m supposed to do with myself right now. So far this morning Slashdot is dead or dying with an HTTP503 error, and Google’s still off the map. Ugh.

Feb 24, 2004

Technology

My Kingdom for a LISP

I’m working on a project right now that requires me to parse a humongous tree of data (folders and html files), and then build all sorts of interesting visual structures out of this information. It’s being done in C#, since it’s an ASP.Net web app...

Sep 11, 2003

Technology

oh crap

It looks like my 15” Titanium Powerbook G4, Sugar Daddy Mac, age 21 months, passed away today. Needless to say, I am slightly less than thrilled about this. If anyone can offer some advice on this (i.e. perhaps it’s just mostly dead, to quote Bill...