Author Archives: jama22

Majestouch Tactile Click “Otaku” NKRO

By jama22 | Published: July 7, 2010
After some convincing by Derek, I decided to bite the bullet and invest in a Filco Majestouch Tactile Click “Otaku” NKRO (Blue Switches).  Filco is a Japanese hardware manufacturer that produces  “high end” mechanical switch keyboards, like the one shown above.  After taxes and shipping the total cost of the keyboard came out to be [...]
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Lucid Lynx (10.04) and GRUB on Windows 7

By jama22 | Published: June 20, 2010
In a previous post (Recovering GRUB After Installing Windows 7) I described a situation where GRUB would not be able to detect your Windows 7 boot partition after you installed Ubuntu.  The fix was to point the root directory to a small (or secret?) partition outside of the main Windows 7 NTFS partition. I recently [...]
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Project Win Post-Mortem

By jama22 | Published: June 9, 2010
As some of you may know, Derek and I have been working on a few projects (Project Win) over the past months. We started these projects in February and worked through until May where we decided to go our separate ways for a little bit. Although none of our projects made it to deployment, we [...]
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Geekery In Print

By jama22 | Published: June 1, 2010
A great deal of my “geekness” has been influenced by various magazines and zines that I read as a kid.  In the days before Reddit and Digg, I would rely on these magazines to teach me more about the latest developments in the tech world.  In fact, even with sites like Reddit and Digg, I [...]
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Post-Grad, Work

By jama22 | Published: June 1, 2010
Its hard to believe that five years have passed since I first started my computer science degree at UofT.  For the past five years I’ve declared Bahen to be my home-away-from-home; and for five years I’ve slaved away for a piece of paper that certifies me an official nerd (aka a computer science diploma). In [...]
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