August 2009 Archives

My Snow Leopard Upgrade Experience, and General Impressions

By Andy Huang on August 31, 2009 3:30 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Snow Leopard came in the mail today (finally). Thank you Apple, for killing a small tree to deliver me one DVD. Using a box large enough to house at least 16 retail packages to ship 1 single disc to an end line consumer is definitely the right choice!! Seriously, if I'm paying you $40 for the rights to kill a tree, I better be the one doing the killing, not you!

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The upgrade took just about 1 hour from inserting disc to the green check mark with "Install Succeeded" text...  Maybe they could've done it faster, I don't know. But what's important is I am now on Snow Leopard.

The upgrade was, unfortunately, not quirk free.  Read on for a few problems that I encountered and how I fixed them.

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URL Shortener and Base 62 Encoder / Decoder

By Andy Huang on August 5, 2009 4:43 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
I'm creating yet another URL shortener script.  Why?  Because I'm not keen on over paying for simple scripts -- because, well, I'd be over paying -- and I'm not too keen on using open source scripts -- because the more people using the same script, the more likely people will find exploits in it.  So with all that in mind, I set out to create my own script.
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