Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Halo 3
I’ve been playing some Halo 3 lately. While it does suck up time I could be spending on other project I guess, it’s a lot of fun, and I love playing online with my friends. Social without having to schedule something serious. It’s far easier to jump online for an hour of fighting aliens than…
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ATG Installation on OS X
While ATG runs fine on OS X, and while many people inside and outside of ATG use OS X as their primary operating system, the ATG installer STILL doesn’t work under OS X. It “mostly” works. It seems to work, it installs things, however if you try to do stuff, like patch, or like adding…
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Gifts
As part of the on-going battle against clutter and attempting to pare down our possessions, I’ve implemented a new rule around gifts. No physical gifts (birthday or Christmas presents, and the like) unless they are either on an Amazon wish-list, or in special cases cleared by a spouse. Money is always good, gift certificates, nicely…
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A Seattle Winter Weekend
It’s gotten cold and wet. Luckily, with a nice wood stove, a ton of homemade hot chocolate and excellent teas, some comfy blankets and pillows, and good company, we are well equipped for the weather:) I played some Halo 3 last night with Russell, which was lots of fun. I really like the new Halo. …
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Top Ten Tools
I was surfing around today, and saw this article about the top ten tools you use. As far as getting work done on the computer (I’m taking the computer for granted and not counting it as a tool, although for it all to come together it’s worth noting I use an Apple MacBookPro with 4GB…
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Use Emacs to edit compressed .ear and .war files
If you’re like me, you’ve often found yourself needing to change a setting, or view some information, buried deep inside a .ear or .war or .sar file. Well, you probably know that emacs can handle looking inside and editing files within a .tar or .jar file. Since .ear and .war files are just .jar files…
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