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Moving… 0

Well, it was a tough decision. As much as I like Google Sites for private team collaboration, the same cannot be said about using it for my personal web presence. As of today, I am making my blog (even with its remaining imperfections) the new home for “all things George”.
So effective immediately, http://gkt.cs.luc.edu will redirect [...]

Back to Wordpress 0

Well, it’s official. Welcome to my new blog. After giving a major blogging solution a try for awhile, I began to find the overall experience pretty substandard. The inability to customize templates easy and have even a semblance of proper navigation (for key pages) began to take its toll.
In the end, I want something [...]

Reacquainting an old Netbook with Linux 0

I was one of the early adopters of the Asus EEE PC–one of the original Netbooks. This model, the 901, features two internal drives. It’s a bit of a weird setup: one measly 4GB drive, and one 16GB drive. Both are solid state (obviously).
Does anyone here remember their first (external) hard drives? Most were a [...]

MacPorts on Snow Leopard without changing your current drive’s filesystem. 0

I had been experiencing a LOT of trouble with MacPorts on OS X after upgrading to Snow Leopard. As it turns out, I apparently was bitten by the perennial case-insensitive filesystem, which of course is the default option when one installs OS X (or has it installed for them via Apple).
So I followed the instructions [...]