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Monthly Archives: December 2006

subversive

30 December 2006

The first serious snow of the year is going on outside, and I’m wrapped up tightly in a wool blanket fixing 2 years worth of file and directory naming mistakes in Beagle.
Hooray, subversion is here!
We’ve taken a slightly different repo layout with Beagle than the standard one for other projects. To check out Beagle, [...]

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kicking non-fresh information from google index

29 December 2006

(Minor update below)
I have a RAID1 setup on my home machine. A few years back I bought two 100 GB drives because they were cheap, and I didn’t have that much data to store, so I RAIDed them together to get some data redundancy. I think I initially set it up in Fedora, [...]

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and i will see your face in my face

29 December 2006

Brette and I got back from visiting family and friends in Ohio this past week. We both had a great time. We spent Christmas with my parents, aunt, and grandparents in Kent, and went to Columbus to see a Bruins-Blue Jackets game and visit B’s folks the following day. She would disagree, [...]

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one two three

19 December 2006

Google Reader today fixed my one real pet peeve about it: sorting articles oldest first. To be honest, I was amazed they pushed it out with this feature in the first place, but I think that a lot of people aren’t obsessive about having their unread item count be zero. (I also am [...]

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type hard or go home

18 December 2006

I am obsessed with the IBM Type M keyboard, and have been for years, much to the chagrin of my officemates I’m sure. When I was in college, I would often go to university surplus sales to pick up as many as I could get my hands on. Knowing that they were no [...]

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they’re both looking for a tight seal! ha ha ha

14 December 2006

Beagle 0.2.14 is out! This version has a lot of great stuff in it:

A new archive filter which indexes zip files, tarballs, and individual gzip and bzip files. We also index the contents of these files, so you can find data inside those archives.
Improvements to the UI, such as the total number of [...]

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what do a walrus and tupperware have in common?

13 December 2006

Writing a desktop indexing system is hard for a lot of reasons. One is that you have to wade through all of the user’s data to extract metadata and text from them, and people have all kinds of crazy files on their system. In Beagle we’ve had problems with certain file types — [...]

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