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Brian Jepson

hacker, artist, editor


Areas of Expertise:
  • Perl
  • microcontrollers
  • Mac OS X
  • SQL

Biography

Brian Jepson is an O'Reilly editor, programmer, and co-author of Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks and Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther. He's also a volunteer system administrator and all-around geek for AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. AS220 gives Rhode Island artists uncensored and unjuried forums for their work. These forums include galleries, performance space, and publications. Brian sees to it that technology, especially free software, supports that mission.

Articles

Blog

Vista Pre-RC1 on MacBook Pro

September 01 2006

There’s been a lot of buzz about the Pre-RC1 build of Vista working with Boot Camp. I decided to give it a try, and it was pretty easy. You’ll want to perform a full backup before you try this!!! First, run the BootCamp Assistant and delete your Windows installation. This… read more

Vista Pre-RC1 on a MacBook Pro

September 01 2006

There’s been a lot of buzz about the Pre-RC1 build of Vista working with Boot Camp. I decided to give it a try, and it was pretty easy. You’ll want to perform a full backup before you try this!!! First, run the BootCamp Assistant and delete your Windows installation. This… read more

Outsmarted by a Chatterbot

June 05 2006

I thought I'd set up something funny... then I nearly fell out of my chair. read more

Outsmarted by a Chatterbot

June 05 2006

When I was editing Ubuntu Hacks, Sanders Kleinfeld (the book’s Production Editor) suggested using a more active screenshot of GAIM than the one we were using (the screenshot we used showed the login screen). I wanted to make the screenshot quickly, so I didn’t want to hassle with asking someone permission… read more

Google Web Toolkit on Mac OS X

May 20 2006

The download page says Linux or Windows... read more

The Give it a Good Whack School of Tech Support?

May 01 2006

My first Genius Bar experience. read more
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