While I’m down in Nags Head communing with the ocean I made sure to brin an extra laptop with me just incase ML was released… Good thing I did. One of the awaited features in 10.8 was the ability to coordinate iMessages between iPhone, iPad, and OS X computer. I was sitting here playing with [...]
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Blew up the Firewall
As the next step in quieting my office down after migrating my home server from an Xserve to a MacMini, I have been slowly turning off (read unplugging) fans from the inside of my Astaro 425 UTM system. It has 5 internal fans, plus the one built into the power supply. Whiile not nearly as [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Education in China vs. The US – What does it mean?
I just read an article in the NYT about how some Shanghai MS students came out on top of 65 other countries in some standardized math tests. They explain their emphasis on discipline and wrote learning, discuss how the Chinese culture has effected their outlook on education and even briefly how confucianism had a role in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Using the open and save dialog boxes more efficiently
The two biggest issues that I see users struggle with when I’m working with them are: 1. Not knowing when to single or double-click on links or icons AND 2. Not knowing the best (fastest, most efficient) way to find and/or open or save files Number one above is not really something that I can [...]
Read the rest of this entry »One complaint about Safari
It seems that every year or so I switch back and forth between Safari and Firefox on the two Macs that I use for a majority of my browsing. Wether its discontent, seeking new speed and new features, or just looking for a change of scenery I don’t know. About two months ago I made [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Cool terminal tricks
Just found this page today when hitting my news feeds. A very cool set of commands to run from a CLI. Some are OS X only while others are just BASH or even emacs dependent. The least useful but coolest one is emacs -batch -l dunnet What fond memories that brings up… on a more [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Serial Terminal Connection from OS X
Its that time again where I’m configuring several new switches at work. In the past, to do this I’ve either used a Windows machine combined with Hyper Terminal and a null modem, or a third party terminal application for OS X and a USB to Serial converter to create a SLIP connection to configure the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »MacBook Pro Battery
I’ve had a 4 year old MacBook Pro sitting on a shelf in my office for a couple of months not doing much. I looked at it today while cleaning up some books on the shelf and discovered the battery had swelled to about twice its normal thickness. Boy am I glad it didn’t explode [...]
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Just making the first post to the Blog from the iPad. Love it so far.
Read the rest of this entry »How do you use LinkedIn?
I just read a post by Lucy Gray on how to draw the line with LinkedIn relationships. Lucy says she is sometimes uncomfortable denying relationships, but really wants to keep LinkedIn for professional relationships. I agree with her on this stance and think her outlook is one that I share, but with one addition. If [...]
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