I’ve been looking forward to writing the post for this project. It may seem that I’m exclusively a Mac user, but my time inside operating systems is probably split 60, 30 and 10 in Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Windows environments, respectively. Mac OS X is obviously my primary platform, but I use the other [...]

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I generally modify my computers with new hard drives and additional RAM after purchasing them. I added RAM to my iBook and replaced the HDD in both my MacBook and MacBook Pro. I bought a 250GB Seagate drive for my MacBook back in 2008 sometime and used it inside my MacBook Pro when I bought [...]

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In March 2010 I took part in a ceremony that all engineers go through once they complete their undergraduate degree in Canada. Called the “Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer“, it serves as a basis for remembering what engineering stands for and how an engineer’s work affects the public. It was written by Rudyard [...]

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The interwebs have been on fire in the last few days with talk of Google’s new project, Chrome OS. This is a Google version of the open-source project Chromium that aims to produce an operating system less dependent on local hardware and instead stores data in the “cloud”, or internet services. This has a number [...]

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The time has come for a new Macintosh operating system. Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard as the cool kids call it, will arrive in stores this coming Friday and bring a host of new features with it. The name of the OS differs very little from 10.5, which was just Leopard, and that [...]

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