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find /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleiPhone2_2.iPhoneLibrary.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents -iname "*.zip" | xargs -J % -n 1 cp % /Users/smorin/Desktop/Phone/2.2Examples

Use the following command to convert a dmg image to an iso. hdiutil makehybrid -o ~/Desktop/leopard_9a581_userdvd.iso ~/Desktop/leopard_9a581_userdvd.dmg -iso Use this to make cdr hdiutil convert /path/to/filename.dmg -format UDTO -o /path/to/savefile.iso

was in LA Saturday had to visit Lenny. Went to Comic Con for the first time this sunday in San Diego visited some friends.

Day three working in the Venture Capital office of Rembrandt Venture Partners so far so good. Sequoia and LightSpeed are both right next to us. I have been playing with Ruby on Rails in my spare time.

I have been trying to do new things and hit all my todo before I leave LA. I have finished my last list which was: The Ivy Robertson St Disney Land Runyon Canyon Park Hike Malibu Hikeing and Drinking Now I need a new list. On a second note went with Sponsor Sparks to a Roller Derby match in L.A. to see the LA team VS team Awsome. LA won!!! Something new every day ;)

Just having come back from Alaska a few things surprised me Midnight sun is much more moving and impressive than I ever imagined is so impactfull but you won't appreciate if till after the first few days. Denali you totally need a pair of binoculars because you won't be able to see much otherwise and you really need a full day for Denali. If you want to take a shuttle to the far end of the park you really need to catch a early morning bus like 6am so check the times. Car rentals were very expensive so book in advance and try and get your self a deal. Train only use GoldStar more expensive but totally worth it and very relaxing. If you want to drink and have a good time go to for some one in your 20's twenties. These are places I went because locals told me about them. They were good. Fairbank - ?? don't know Denali - Salmon Bake Anchorage - Humpy's Fairbanks Dredge #8 get real gold, once your pumped up from your "find" at the dredge do some real gold pa...

I have recently been thinking about my future because of Job changes and bumped into The Last Lecture and the Bucket List . What will make me Happy, what will help lead to a life I want to live with out doubts. These are very hard questions. I just came back from Alaska and there I had plenty of time for those questions. Here are some of the things on my todo list Kids Marriage Visit 6 Continents Visit Argentina and Spain Founder of a company Make a Million in 1 year 1 Property on each coast and Internationally Try out Silicon Valley Hike Appalachian trail in Maine Gold panning with a guide (Now that I have gold panned) Private Jet to Europe with friends Learn to write well Well this a very superficial first cut but it's better than nothing.

I am off to Alaska, one of the last frontiers in America. I don't know exactly what I'll be doing but I know it involves some combination of Gold Panning, White water rafting, Hiking and Fishing and Train Rides through the country. -Steve

yinst save -file `hostname`-`date +%m_%d_%Y`.ysav is a example of creating a file name using unix / linux commands.

This is a pretty Publish Post cool project using Hadoop and Amazon web services From New York Time Article Cited Below This all adds up to terabytes of data, in a less-than-web-friendly format. So reusing the EC2/S3/Hadoop method I discussed back in November , I got to work writing a few lines of code. Using Amazon Web Services , Hadoop and our own code, we ingested 405,000 very large TIFF images, 3.3 million articles in SGML and 405,000 xml files mapping articles to rectangular regions in the TIFF’s. This data was converted to a more web-friendly 810,000 PNG images (thumbnails and full images) and 405,000 JavaScript files — all of it ready to be assembled into a TimesMachine. By leveraging the power of AWS and Hadoop, we were able to utilize hundreds of machines concurrently and process all the data in less than 36 hours. http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/the-new-york-times-archives-amazon-web-services-timesmachine/?

svn propset svn:executable ON public/dispatch.* script/process/*

This bash trick is great have been using it for years wanted to share. SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0)

Life is crazy and I am lost and don't know what to think today ...

And then there was cusp! It will probably have better appeal for people who like gui's for their lisp development. http://www.paragent.com/lisp/cusp/cusp.htm

To redirect standard error and output to different files, you can use grouping: % (cat myfile > myout) >& myerror

Going to Las Vegas today .... Yahooooo

I have been pretty busy and haven't been able to update my blog in a while but. The good news is that I have started a new job at Yahoo in Burbank

FUNCTION unixtimestampToDate( in_Date IN number ) RETURN DATE IS BEGIN RETURN to_date('01-jan-1970', 'dd-mon-yyyy')+ (in_Date / ( 60*60*24) - (5/24)) ; END ; FUNCTION DateToUNIXTimestamp( in_Date IN DATE ) RETURN NUMBER IS BEGIN RETURN TRUNC( ( in_Date - TO_DATE( '01-jan-1970', 'dd-mon-yyyy' )) * 60 * 60 * 24 +(5/24) * 60 * 60 * 24) ; END ;

I have tried many things and I can't figure out how to dynamically include my adsense code into my web pages only using javascript. I have gotten close but my web pages go blank. I'll pay $20 to anyone who can show me how to do it successfully Steve

I have been doing research on Programming Lanuage Theory or PL Theory. Been reading a lot on Paul Graham's Site and Lambda the Ultimate. So far so good but there is a lot more reading to do. I see a lot of promise in Arc, if it's ever completed . I have big concerns about an appropriate launch and set up of Arc with a community. Also see a great need for appropriate introduction of a very good alternative option formate for Arc. Sexp are dangerous and always have been, it's not their inherent power but human consumption that is a problem. What is Arc? It's a language being developed by Paul Graham Who is Paul Graham? A popular tech essayist, entrepreneur and lisp evangelist