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Getting ready to build the new home office

December 2, 2012 by Stefan Didak 15 Comments
The new USB LED lights

However, I have most of my camera gear here and the other half is being shipped along with the majority of Home Office 6.0, my books, and tons of boxes with other stuff that still needed to be shipped from Rotterdam to California. With a bit of luck everything should arrive in perfect order sometime near the end of the year. This of course means that starting 2013 I’ll be (finally) constructing the final office 7.0, the combination of the current California office and the previous office.

Filed Under: Home Office, Personal Tagged With: Batteries, Charger, Office 7.0 Beta, Person Of Interest, Velcro, Whiskey

Andre Alves of Aware Bear perjured himself AGAIN!

March 30, 2012 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
Aware Bear Computers Rochester Pittsford New York, unreliable fraudulent scammer

Our favorite habitual liar and serial copyright infringer, Andre Leite Alves, of Aware Bear Computers in Rochester, is at it again and proving himself to now also be a habitual perjurer. And no, I am not talking about his Rochester Perennial Exchange “website”, which is nothing more than his attempt to link-build to gain a tiny bit of SEO juice in the hopes that all the negative exposure of his business activities and habitual lies would no longer score as high as they have done. This week, Andre Leite Alves, Mr. AwareBear, has once again perjured himself, in an attempt to file a DMCA against this site and three of the images used (in good faith used under 17 USC Section 107 which allows for such considering the context of this site). This is not the first time Andre Alves has attempted to do so. Remember many years ago when he filed a false DMCA (against my domain registrar) claiming the images of my office were actually his and that I was the one infringing on them? Perjury might be something Andre Alves was born with but since I am not a doctor I don’t know that for sure. Lying and displaying deceit, however, that I think has long since been proven.

Filed Under: Home Office, Infringer, Lengthy Tagged With: Andre Alves, Andre Leite Alves, Aware Bear Computers, Computer Repair, Copyright, DMCA, Failure, Home Office, Infringement, Misuse, Monroe County, New York, Perjury, Pittsford, Rochester, Theft, Thief, Thieves

Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) for Mac/OSX? Not quite!

March 6, 2012 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) by Stefan Didak

Unfortunately, no, I am not presenting you with a free version of Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) for Mac/OSX here. But I will provide you with something that has worked for me along similar lines and was hacked up in a few hours of using AppleScript. I hope it works for you as well as it works for me, if not, blame it on my total inexperience with AppleScript. In fact, I have never touched AppleScript until the other day when I hacked together my first few lines of code and then did the “google programmer” thing by basically solving every little step along the way by looking it up online in a quick and dirty way. But heck, who cares, it worked and I really have no ambition to learn AppleScript. I very much dislike its syntax. As a real software developer it makes my toes curl. Now, back to the AppleScript thingie I hacked up to provide myself the much missing WiLMa basic functionality that I have sorely missed on Snow Leopard and Lion, and every other Apple Mac OSX incarnation.

Filed Under: Apple Software, Software, WiLMa Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, Free, Freeware, Layout, Mac, Manager, OSX, Software, WiLMa

Pearl Aday, The Swing House Session – Live & Acoustic

January 19, 2012 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
New Pearl Aday Album - The Swing House Session - Live & Acoustic

I think it’s time for something completely unrelated to the Home Office! A recent poll done by VentureBeat shows that Metallica is the #1 most popular artist to listen to while writing code. The poll also shows that as far as the type of music goes, Rock/Pop makes up 42% of the total. Not that I am surprised about that. However, putting rock and pop in the same category is a bit of a stretch for me since I prefer my rock on the rocks! Lately I’ve been listening (and coding by) Pearl Aday’s latest album, The Swing House Session, Live & Acoustic. I’ve written about Pearl before, back in 2007, and more recently in 2010, and she never ceases to amaze me with the passion and soul for her music which is a very honest and classic rock style with modern influences and, of course, great vocals! For me, that’s my personal #1 choice to write code by. 🙂 The Swing House Session album is a great addition to the original Broken Thorny Crown and the debut album, Little Immaculate White Fox, the latter of which has been recorded into a full acoustic set during an afternoon at Swing House Studios in Hollywood. The acoustic versions of the songs have an interesting twist to them and while completely recognizable to anyone who’s heard them before, add a new level of depth to the sound that is otherwise hard to catch when performed “fully plugged”.

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: Acoustic, Album, Hollywood, Music, Pearl Aday, Rock, Swing House

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