Watch, Read, Listen
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I’ve used the login name “fishdan” since 1996 — I own it about everywhere it’s worth having. Because I’m old, my primary usage is via yahoo, but I’m also fishdan@gmail, It’s my primary interface to all things google, including my google+ account and the account I sync my android phone with. Because I’m a good
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Just upgraded to windows 8, and I’m not happy about a lot of it, but I kept digging to see if the answers I wanted are perhaps in there somewhere. Most particularly I was very frustrated that I could not see the progress of windows update as it ran from the app. It took me
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We’ve all encountered the diehards on the web. They’re never wrong, they will post link upon upon link
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We have changed ourselves as a country and as a people when we think that the social safety net MUST come from government. When my grandparents came to Lynn in 1904 they came to a community that took them in and shared responsibility for them. If a kid was misbehaving, the first adult in the
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After the Command-S startup, type the following on the command prompts, allowing time for each to do its thing: /sbin/fsck -y<return> /sbin/mount -uw /<return> /sbin/autodiskmount -va<return> launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.diskarbitrationd.plist /usr/sbin/diskutil repairPermissions /
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I have a series of 6 machines that I need to occasionally deploy the same file to in exactly the same place. I got tired of it being such a pain so I wrote this little script I call mcp.sh It’s certainly easy enough for a shell script master to do this, but for me?
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So we got a new Mac Book Pro in the house, and it came without an installation disk. That’s weird, but so be it. So then I wanted to install bootcamp on the mac. When you run through Bootcamp Assistant it gives you a chance to download the drivers you’ll need for windows if your
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I’ve been working with Google’s chart tools — specifically their Image Chart tools. My problem — I’m using BIRT as my PDF report engine, but I have a web interface. I want the report to look the same on the web as it does in BIRT (which has it’s own excellent native charting library). I
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My good friend Greg mentioned that I should use bitwise operators to perform a toggle, as opposed to my earlier method of using integer math to manipulate the state. I had not done that because the bitwise implementation is imho not comprehensible by a developer who does not have a CS degree. As an example it is not
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We were talking about a way to use an integer to indicate teh state of a series of switches. e.g. if there were 5 switches and the first 3 were on we would say think of that as 11100, or 28 Not a bad method — you can very quickly toggle switches on and off