MacOSXHints.com
Recently I became so sick of the slowness of my MacBook Pro (late 2011 model), which has a 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 with 16 GB RAM running Mountain Lion 10.8.2, that I decided to buy a 120 GB Kingston SVP 200 SSD drive for my boot drive and put my previous…
10 October 2012Slashdot
JamieKitson writes "The latest Webconverger 15 release is the first Linux distribution to be automagically updatable from a Github repository. The chroot of the OS is kept natively in git's format and fuse mounted with git-fs. Webconverger fulfills the…
9 October 2012Planet Debian
When I first wanted to reverse engineer a USB device that only had Windows drivers the “easy” option was to take a Windows machine, install usbsnoop on it and capture the traffic as a bunch of verbose text files. It was a cumbersome procedure. Recently I…
8 October 2012Planet Debian
I was about to post a different story but things turned out differently, for good. Now I’ll post tips that may save the day in the event of encoding issues when dealing with MySQL table data. Hopefully you find it useful. Say you have a MySQL table that…
8 October 2012Macworld
The new dream in computing is keeping all of your files in “the cloud,” on remote servers that you can access from anywhere at any time. Apple’s cloud-based syncing and storage service, iCloud, debuted in June 2011. Still, only since the release of OS X…
8 October 2012Macworld
Reader Amy Campbell has all the right reasons for extracting data from an iPhone. She writes: > A Mac-using relative recently passed away, and there are some SMS and voicemail messages on her phone that we’d like to have copies of. I don’t see any way to…
8 October 2012Slashdot
New submitter philip.levis writes "Nick McKeown and I are offering a free, online class on computer networking. We're professors of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford and are also co-teaching Stanford's networking course this…
7 October 2012Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
Apple cofounder and former CEO Steve Jobs passed away one year ago. Apple has posted a tribute to Jobs on its home page, which contains a video montage of some of Jobs' more memorable moments in addition to a letter from current CEO Tim Cook. But there are…
6 October 2012Google Open Source Blog
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.
5 October 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Regular expressions are a staple of development. A grammar for matching forms to text, regular expressions are used in Apple development for use with predicates, in validating text entry and more. O'Reilly just released a new edition of Jan Goyvaerts' &…
4 October 2012