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Dead Panther

By barneyb on February 6, 2004

After installing the Safari 1.2 update a couple days ago, my PowerBook has been doing nothing but bad things. 1 in 4 or so web pages cause Safari to crash (including Apple's web site), drag and drop causes Finder to crash, and checking email causes Mail to crash.
So I reformatted and reinstalled the entire [...]

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SETI@Home

By barneyb on February 6, 2004

I thought I'd throw a link up here to SETI@Home, which I've been participating in for quite a while now. The project is a distributed system to analyze the data collected by the Arecibo radio telescope down in Puerto Rico (I believe). You sign up, download a client and when your computer isn't [...]

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Flash MX'04 Pro

By barneyb on February 4, 2004

I was playing around with Flash MX '04 Pro, particularly the WebServiceConnector to set up a little browser for PIER. Pretty slick, all in all, especially the stock GUI components that Macromedia provides. However, there didn't seem to be a way to bind a BomboBox directly to a DataSet, unless you happened to [...]

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And Then There Were Two

By barneyb on February 2, 2004

As the initial hubub died down regarding Lindsay, I realized that there is probably going to be a lot of stuff I want to post that will not be of any interest to most people. I decided, therefore, to split the blog in two. The Boisvert Life will continue to be fo a [...]

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