It’s been a little over a month and I’ve lost over 25 pounds, sneaking up on 30 lbs. My pants are too loose and my shirts fit a little better (not so snug) and I can tie my shoes with a little more ease. This is a far cry from the person I was three [...]

In Part I, I discussed the idea of installing a Gentoo partition on my machine. Part II delved into the why and how of starting out, including my initial frustrations of installing Gentoo on a fresh Bootcamp partition. Part III discussed the rage and horror I felt when I thought I lost my data after [...]

While I’m not at work or performing contracting duties, I write my own software in C. Obviously I require a revision control system and I’ve opted at this time for git. In previous posts I’ve made no secret of my love for git. It’s a simple, elegant and fast revision control system that works just [...]

In Part I, I discussed the idea of installing a Gentoo partition on my machine. Part II delved into the why and how of starting out, including my initial frustrations of installing Gentoo on a fresh Bootcamp partition. Now I’m going to talk about the RH portion of the CFRHB method of installing an operating [...]

In Part I, I discussed the idea of installing a Gentoo partition on my machine. For the uninitiated, Gentoo is a Linux distribution with a source-based package management system: Applications are compiled to your native machine architecture and, fundamentally, Gentoo is designed to be completely customized… from the kernel up. This intrigued me. I didn’t [...]

Last Friday, 9:00 PM: It’s one of those quiet evenings at home: The kid’s asleep, the spouse is watching TV. I’m sitting at my desk once again debugging some nasty code (but really I’m just checking Facebook). My machine hums away, OS X chugs along just fine. Technically everything is as it should be. Background: [...]