Installing VirtualBox on MacOS via VNC – just use a real mouse
At work the other day I was testing our Ansible instructions on how to get a development environment set up. Given that this was supposed to be platform agnostic and […]
OS X
4k Mac Plus
The amazing Archive.org just posted a Mac OS 7 emulator and it’s amazing. See, “Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive“. Given my first computer was a “Fat Mac“, seeing […]
On really nice standing desks with really nice computers
A good friend of mine is setting up a new workstation in his new lab and wanted some advice on what would be the best setup. Being a bit of […]
Meego 1.2, Meego Laptop and a MacBook Air
As many of you know, I’ve had an on again, off again, and then on again affair with Meego. I love that lil’ guy! You may have expected me to […]
Another Very Poor Man’s Google Analytics Post
A bit ago I wrote a post about using command line tools to get stats of this blog. I recently wrote another version of this to get the most popular […]
How to Fix Zend Studio 5.5 (ZDE) Select Text Problem in OS 10.6 Snow Leopard
This is nothing but a repost of a slightly older fix, but this is AWESOME! Fixing ZDE 5.5 in Snow Leopard Enjoy!
Keep those passwords safe
A problem with online security is that there’s no standards for passwords. You may come up with the silly simple single password you use for all site. This works well, […]
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I got four cores but a distributed load aint [on] one
Hi there way too powerful desktop, why don’t you distribute a high load across more cores? I know your authors would have to work to make the process multithreaded and […]
Ruby-less way to add key frames to flv videos for the likes of JWPlayer
At work we’ve been working on a good way to roll our own videos. We initially started with the generic off the shelf swf player + flv to make our […]