Windows Vista
It’s terrible.
I’d elaborate if I weren’t under an NDA.
June 25th, 2007
Summer in Santa Clara
So life has progressed a bit.
Just finished sophomore year. I’m in Santa Clara, CA for the summer working for NVIDIA. Fun stuff 
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August 17th, 2006
August 7th, 2006
June 18th, 2006
May 15th, 2006
signs
Damien Katz: Signs You’re a Crappy Programmer (and don’t know it)
this list is right on the money haha… i’ve seen so many of these..
and i have to admit.. after working on 3d rendering engines so often… i do look at most code and think oh man this is soo slow… think of the wasted cycles! “THATS A WHOLE MILLISECOND YOU’RE WASTING WITH THAT ITERATOR!” and “damn you (x langauge != C/C++)! why can’t i do this with pointers!”
OMG!PATTERNS! haha classic..
the comments on this thread are great…
-rj
May 11th, 2006
MIDAS on MAKE/Digg/Engadget
MIDAS - Multifunction In-Dorm Automation System
one of my roommate and my projects made the front page of MakeZine
Here’s zack and my site about MIDAS, our dorm room automation system -
MIDAS Dorm Automation System
If you like our dorm room, you might want to check out my basement back home
TheBasement
It’s not automated by any means, but it’s like 24 hour party mode.. a fully blacklight room with the walls covered in blacklight paint.
Here’s the article:
MAKE Blog MIDAS Homemade Dorm Room Home Automation System
UPDATE
We made the Digg, Engadget, and Reddit front page
MIDAS on Digg
MIDAS on Engadget
Reddit (won’t be on the front page for long)
March 5th, 2006
February 10th, 2006
americans.privacy minus minus
Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved | CNET News.com
… well that’s just great.. now they have a semi-precedent for monitoring email without warrant.. I mean, that is kind of a sensationalist headline, seeing as they asked the supreme court for permission with one person, but it could easily be cited in future cases as a reason for its use.
rryan.privacy–
-rj ryan
February 9th, 2006
another monitoring program..
US plans massive data sweep | csmonitor.com
so i’ve never heard of this.. but it’s pretty unsettling… i’m hoping that it when it got slashdotted that was just a sensational title about them spidering email… i’m not even sure how they would do it unless they were only to do it to email leaving the country via packet filters on all external facing routers in the country… but its kind of a chilling idea as it is… the article, along with the senators/reps interviewed are very sketchy on details, surprise surprise, old white men don’t understand technology very well… but when we get more information about this it could potentially turn out to be another nightmare… looks like I’ll be using tor from now on…
-rj