Posts maching category 'Computers'
Here's now to "remove" all partitions on a disk under Mac OS X by clobbering the partition map.
/934/removing-all-partitions-in-mac-os-x - Computers, macosx - 0 Comments - 2009-09-08
Looks like RAM is getting smaller.
/822/the-incredible-shrinking-ram - Computers - 0 Comments - 2009-05-12
I work at a computer cable company and use a wireless mouse.
/422/v270 - Computers - 1 Comments - 2007-08-03
Alpha Five forms include a QuickFilter feature that lets you limit the current result set to records that match (or don’t match) the contents of a specific field. You can stack these filters, limiting by field after field as you dig down to the desired record set. After half a dozen filters, Alpha ends up [...]
/421/filter-2 - Computers - 0 Comments - 2007-07-18
Over at FileFormat.info there is a pretty cool resource for finding Unicode characters. For example: the inverted Ohm sign. They’ve got character codes, a Java reference, raster and vector files of the character, and more. That’s a lot of data for just one character.
/316/font - Computers, Rants - 0 Comments - 2005-06-10
A few days ago I clicked a link to an Ars Technica article and was greeted by a full-screen advertisement for Vonage. This was not much of a surprise, these commercial breaks are standard fare on many websites today. What did surprise me was the page that followed:
Maybe Vonage thought I missed their ad the [...]
/314/vonage - Computers - 1 Comments - 2005-06-02
I cannot fathom the chain of events that led to this limitation of Microsoft Excel 97:
/313/excel - Computers - 0 Comments - 2005-06-02
I think this the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
/235/svn-2 - Computers - 1 Comments - 2004-08-12
Just don't turn it 90 degrees around the Y-axis.
/234/dimensions - Computers - 1 Comments - 2004-08-12
Where to start? "Scripted Administration." That's been the phrase of the past three months of my life. Mac OS X Scripted Administration, to be more precise. Why? Who? Where? I'll get to it.
/188/reignition - Computers - 2 Comments - 2003-11-21
New toy: Zaurus SL-5500. 1, 2, 3. Yeah, I did it again…
/184/zaurus - Computers - 0 Comments - 2003-11-10
Logical volume management is changing the way I think about storage. (Warning: it only gets geekier from here.)
/178/ninja-power-vgextend - Computers - 1 Comments - 2003-09-05
Metadata! What is it? It's data, but it's more than that: it's data about data. "So," you're asking, "why should I care?" Well, I'm glad you asked! Sit a spell, won't you?
/176/metadata-rhymes-with-metadata - Computers - 5 Comments - 2003-08-27
As I
mentioned, I'm the proud owner of an 802.11b wireless networking adapter for my Palm m500. I promised I'd post about it, and who am I to disappoint?
/175/pocket-sized-internet - Computers - 0 Comments - 2003-08-25
"An application should always present a window when its Dock icon is clicked." Does anyone else find this feature slightly annoying?
/164/dock-annoyances - Computers, Rants, macosx - 7 Comments - 2003-06-29
I did some scripting for work yesterday, and came up with this little snippet to ensure important scripts will run as root.
/163/root - Computers, Scripting - 2 Comments - 2003-06-28
Today’s gonna be a good day.
I’ve already ranted on the physical pain I experience working with Visual Basic.NET/Access. Today, my prayers are being answered. PHP and Apache are swooping down like a sort of heavenly convoy, my shining light in the darkness that is Client/Server Database.
As much as I enjoy database manipulation with PHP, I’m [...]
/152/dbms-updates - Computers - 1 Comments - 2003-05-01
After an excruciating ten day long wait, I finally received all the parts for my new computer. After wrestling with a handicapped onboard bootrom, a harddrive that doesn’t seem to be bootable, and some assorted NFS problems, everything seems to be in order. (Tip: make sure rpc.statd is running on the client.) Ah, the joy [...]
/148/thin-client-update - Computers - 2 Comments - 2003-04-22
I followed Mark Pilgrim’s lead and set up SpamAssassin tonight, with some help. I’ve actually been pretty lucky in the spam department, with one spam every couple days. Having a dummy account with aliases helps, plus I get to see exactly where people are getting my address from.
Here’s the lowdown on my current setup:
Mail is [...]
/147/spamassassin-procmail-and-fetchmail-oh-my - Computers, Spam - 1 Comments - 2003-04-13
Just placed the orders for my new thin client setup.
/146/i-like-em-thin - Computers - 0 Comments - 2003-04-08
So I’m taking a client/server database course this quarter. Now, I’m no stranger to working with databases. I’ve done a few projects of varying size in MySQL and PHP, most of which I enjoyed thoroughly. (Yes, I’m a database weirdo. Sue me.) PHP’s database access is straightforward and sensible: send SQL statements to the database, [...]
/143/microsoft-is-pain - Computers - 1 Comments - 2003-03-25
From “Family Tech Support,” a recent story on Slashdot:
For a month, my mother became really productive (mom’s productivity is measured in forwarded joke emails), and then, abruptly, stopped being productive at all… I sent several emails which went unanswered… The next time I heard from her was on my answering machine – “You can cancel [...]
/141/family-tech-support - Computers - 1 Comments - 2003-03-17
Some of you may be experiencing problems with Bwerp.net at the moment. My provider is shuffling around some of their servers, and you may get a 503 Forbidden until your cache updates. Don’t panic.
/138/bwerp-server-move - Computers - 0 Comments - 2003-03-01
Not terribly interesting to most of you.
/135/mmm-web-development - Computers - 0 Comments - 2003-02-13
I’ve been taking class notes on my computer (and Palm m500) for quite some time now, but I’m always left with the question of how to format them so they’re actually useful later. Plain text has formatting issues, and isn’t easily malleable. HTML looks nice, but it’s hard to write on the fly without a [...]
/132/making-plain-text-useful - Computers - 4 Comments - 2003-01-29
For the next five days, my Linux machine will sit somewhere between shutting down and starting up.
/120/i-hope-my-pc-forgives-me - Computers - 2 Comments - 2002-12-24
I sort of stumbled across Cygwin the other day. It’s by Red Hat, but I actually like it. Cygwin gives Windows users access to many of the tools included with most Linux distributions. It’s comforting having native access to mutt, vim, bash, and ssh, on those occasions when I need to boot into Windows. I [...]
/118/making-windows-bearable - Computers - 0 Comments - 2002-12-16
Yeah, my productivity on the Palm m500 just went to Zero.
/116/productivity - Computers, Games - 0 Comments - 2002-12-14
Tim O’Reilly has a very well thought-out and informed article on piracy over at OpenP2P.com. He says many good things about the benefits of the P2P world and what has been labeled as “piracy”, the desire for users to have immediate access to entertainment, books, and the like, and the willingness of users to pay [...]
/115/tim-oreilly-on-piracy - Computers - 4 Comments - 2002-12-12