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Both Justin Long and John Hodgman suspect that Apple's long-running "Get a Mac" ad campaign might be over. Honestly, we would miss Hodgmans' "PC" the most. Read More: AV Club Read the comments on this post
8 April 2010MacOSXHints.com
Growl my Router Alive! is a bash shell script that will ping an IP address (ie a router) and will notify you, using Growl, if the ping is successful. This requires some Terminal basics, both Growl and growlnotify being installed, and a document with a…
8 April 2010MacOSXHints.com
When I need a container of files, or of a directory that is already compressed (i.e. jpg images), there is no need to 'compress' into a zip file, so the following OS X Service will replicate the Compress 'right-click' with tar: 1. Open Automator and select…
8 April 2010MacOSXHints.com
This hint is for people trying to optimise their wireless signal reception in strange places. I recently had to get a wireless network operating over 100 meters away from the base station, and in a metal shed -- not the best environment for microwave…
8 April 2010MySQL Performance Blog
While a scale-out solution has traditionally been popular for MySQL, it’s interesting to see what room we now have to scale up – cheap memory, fast storage, better power efficiency. There certainly are a lot of options now – I’ve been meeting about a…
8 April 2010Slashdot
derrida writes "After more than 4 years C is back at position number 1 in the TIOBE index. The scores for C have been pretty constant through the years, varying between the 15% and 20% market share for almost 10 years. So the main reason for C's number 1…
7 April 2010MacOSXHints.com
After installing the OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 update, I found that I could no longer write to Samba (SMB) volumes shared from my Linux server (running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala) that I had mounted on OS X. Whenever I tried to copy a file from OS X to the…
7 April 2010Planet Mozilla
Well, no. Besides breaking a lot of language invariants, first-class continuations would be a nightmare for portability, since different implementations implement different API's natively. Either you mandate capturing continuations across native frames,…
7 April 2010Macworld
Capturing great pictures with your camera's flash can be a challenge. Instead of leaving it up to chance, use these tips make so-so flash photos great.
6 April 2010Planet GNOME
When it comes to web applications, I think free and open source software fans are settling for “free” instead of looking for the freedom they would get from open source. Here are some free applications that I wish had open source software equivalents. I…
6 April 2010