Category: Misc Tech
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GNU Wget
GNU Wget. Needed to quick download a copy of a website. Quick google led me to wget, which makes the operation a simple one liner. Unfortunately, its not part of OSX command line tool kit any more. No problem, let me just download it and compile. Oh look, Mountain Lion uninstalled the command line compiler…
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Storm Tracker
Hurricane Tracker: View the 2012 storms – Weather | NBC News. A cool interactive tracker for Hurricane Sandy as it lines up a path through central New York over the next few days.
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The Times, They are a Change’n
Not really. Helping cellmate set up new PC laptop with Windows 7. Internet Explorer crashes on first run. Pure awesome. Also, the process for activating a student edition of an Adobe product is about 100 steps longer than it really should be.
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Browsers as Guns
Geek Humor – Google+. Yep, that’s pretty accurate.
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Dreamhost, we’re sorry we over billed you…
…to the tune of $7.5 million dollars. Guess that explains why I had a ginormous charge (~$158) from Dreamhost on my credit card statement this month. (mental note, guess I need to get some more referrals!) Being the software business I frequently have nightmares about fat fingered moments like the one that cause the snafu.…
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Handy New Firefox Plugin
Meet PermaTabs, a little hack that allows you to have tabs that can’t be closed. After installing it, just right click on the tab and turn on the Permanent Tab option. It also persists across sessions, so next time you fire up Firefox, it brings back your permanent tabs automagically. Sweet, now I won’t keep…
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MSDN Developer Event
Yes, I’ve visited the dark side; I needed to see how the other half lives. I get invitations from Microsoft all the time to attend their Developer Events. The location (Carousel Mall) and pricing (free) made yesterday’s event too good to pass up. After filling out my pre-seminar survey (with a chance to win Zune),…
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Project FC5 Update: 0 for 2
Last night, I had two tasks for my FC5 project: Get a Parallels VM machine for Windows XP rolling.Seemed to kick off OK after having to remember how to use Parallels’ VM setup utility. A false start or two later, and the XP installed seemed to start fine. It did all the normal setup stuff,…
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More Fun with FC5
I’d love to ditch XP completely, but I still have a few things that I need windows for. My master plan is to run FC5 as the primary OS and use XP in a Parallels virtual machine. I’ve messed around with Parallels before on ancient history PC hardware (400MHz PIII, 384Mb) and found it pretty…
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Harddrive Replacement
Monday, I took a day off to concentrate on some chores that never seem to make it off my to do list. On of which was replacing the OS harddrive in my primary PC at home before its impending failure. Starting with a brand new 120Gb ide drive, I figured it would be best to…