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Spooky fun with ssh on OS X

Friday, November 20, 2009

Want to freak out your wife/husband/kids?
On a mac that you have access to:
Go to ‘System Preferences’. Under ‘Internet & Networking’ there is a ‘Sharing’ icon. Run that. In the list that appears, check the ‘Remote Login’ option.
Then ssh into your mac remotely by downloading putty if you’re on a pc or launch a terminal on [...]

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Remove GoBoingo to fix MacBook WiFi pauses, stutters, hiccups, latency, delays

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

I recently upgraded our router to the Linksys WRT320N router. I set the router to only transmit on 5GHz and the performance has been awesome because all our neighbors are still on 2.4 GHz, our 2.4 GHz cordless phones don’t interfere with our WiFi anymore and because 5GHz is better at getting around corners and [...]

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Smashed iPhone

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Update: According to my live traffic feed, busted iphones are hip. My bro posted this to reddit.
Update2: @chrisrodde Just reminded me that this will be my third iPhone – I drowned the last one on a fishing trip with him.
Update3: Just visited AT&T. The conversation went like this:
AT&T guy: Um yeah, so lets see if [...]

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Why those Microsoft ads make Steve so happy

Friday, April 10, 2009

This is an internal video of Steve Jobs at NeXT in 1991. Skip to about 4:30 in the video:

Those MS ads you’ve been seeing recently that keep mentioning Apple are exactly what Steve Jobs wanted with NeXT – that every customer of the market leader also considered his product. And Microsoft just made that happen [...]

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Apple Basic emulator in Javascript

Thursday, May 1, 2008

I started programming on an Apple IIe at around age 11 and if you too enjoy reminiscing, check out Joshua Bell’s Apple Basic emulator implemented in Javascript.
Since my move (back) to using Apple I think my code has improved – if nothing else then from a feeling of happy nostalgia.
…And I couldn’t help myself. [...]

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