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Final Fantasy XIII: Commentary

joshkim — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:30:18 +0000

I’ve started commenting on Final Fantasy XIII on Tumblr under igamer. Keep up, if you’d like, but think of them as random notes for a series of blog posts that I really should get around to writing. I did the same with a few games previously, like Heavy Rain, but with a text file.

It’s kinda how My Tumblr (Tumblog is the right word, right? I don’t think I can get used it…) is kind of a wasteland of randomness, usually things that I’ve stopped myself from posting on Twitter.

That’s all I got for now. See ya later.

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Homebrew (Mac) Installation

joshkim — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:09:09 +0000

Homebrew is an up and coming successor to Fink and MacPorts. Although a bit generically named, it works quite well for a lot of the things I muck around with these days, which tend to have that web development smell to it.

It used to be that I had to get a git binary, then grab homebrew from github, then uninstall the git through the binary, and then install git through homebrew. Then, the fun would begin.

Now, it’s even more streamlined. Just grab the installer gist from the README.md page, and it should work. Although, I couldn’t get it to work and I was in a hurry, so I just grabbed the master tarball, and just physically moved the resulting /bin, /Library, and README.md.

Note: This probably worked for me because I already did everything else that was in the install script earlier, such as chmod’ing the /usr/local folder, as well as adding /usr/local/bin to the path.

Hooray for adhering to POSIX standards (Reference here: This is an awesome read, by the way, if you ever had any questions about why directories were as such in a Linux/BSD setting.).

brew install git
brew install ruby
brew install stuff

More on how brew affects Ruby on Rails installations later.

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BTW: If You’re Using Google Reader

joshkim — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:02:56 +0000

You’re probably going to see this post as soon as I hit publish. I’m almost certain PubSubHubbub went live today on Google Reader.

There was a period of some weird instability with Google Reader earlier today, and I think there was something more than recommendation that hit.

Well, this changes my plans a tiny bit.

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OCZ Agility SSD vs Stock 5400 RPM Hard Drive

joshkim — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:30:04 +0000

Probably the first of many posts on my recent SSD upgrade, but here are some hard numbers for now.

Using Xbench, first, the 5400 RPM stock drive that came with my 17″ MacBook Pro.

Results 25.96

    System Info

        Xbench Version      1.3
        System Version      10.6.2 (10C540)
        Physical RAM        4096 MB
        Model       MacBookPro5,2
        Drive Type      FUJITSU MHZ2320BH FFS G1
    Disk Test   25.96

        Sequential  29.52

            Uncached Write  31.66   19.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
            Uncached Write  34.00   19.24 MB/sec [256K blocks]
            Uncached Read   24.57   7.19 MB/sec [4K blocks]
            Uncached Read   29.57   14.86 MB/sec [256K blocks]
        Random  23.17

            Uncached Write  9.73    1.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
            Uncached Write  38.94   12.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
            Uncached Read   41.98   0.30 MB/sec [4K blocks]
            Uncached Read   49.22   9.13 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Compared to the new OCZ Agility SSD drive.

Results 225.00

    System Info

        Xbench Version      1.3
        System Version      10.6.2 (10C540)
        Physical RAM        4096 MB
        Model       MacBookPro5,2
        Drive Type      OCZ-AGILITY
    Disk Test   225.00

        Sequential  218.78

            Uncached Write  288.14  176.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
            Uncached Write  250.35  141.65 MB/sec [256K blocks]
            Uncached Read   121.72  35.62 MB/sec [4K blocks]
            Uncached Read   384.23  193.11 MB/sec [256K blocks]
        Random  231.58

            Uncached Write  74.76   7.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
            Uncached Write  421.12  134.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]
            Uncached Read   2764.59 19.59 MB/sec [4K blocks]
            Uncached Read   862.34  160.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Freaking A. An order of magnitude difference. I can feel it, too.

It’s nice to see how the drive performs over the max write speed of 135 MB/s. Probably will go down as I start using the drive more. All in all, a nice investment.

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The Zone

joshkim — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:38:51 +0000

The thing about being in the zone is that when you’re in the zone, you can’t be writing about being in the zone.

It’s similar situation with status messages. On Twitter proper, you are asked, “What’s Happening?” As soon as you start typing, you are no longer doing what you’re doing (which was the old question on Twitter), but tweeting instead.

In an effort to achieve as much efficiency as possible, I’ve tried time and time again to write a memoir while living it out, and that’s probably one of the largest roadblocks I’ve ran into.

This is why this post is probably going to be one of the last time I talk about the zone. I’m not here to write a top 10 list of how to stay in the zone, but instead to just bask in the zone myself.

Oh, and by the way, expect more short personal posts. If I can’t be myself on my own freaking blog, then I’ve got issues.

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