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My Hackintosh, one week on.

February 10, 2010

Hackintoshes have always seemed like way more effort than they’re worth to me.  Custom kernels, problematic updates, random crashes, it all flies in the face of why you use an Apple operating system (and computer) in the first place.  While I can appreciate the hacker aesthetic, I’ve never really had the inclination or patience to [...]

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Firefox Add-Ons for 2010

January 25, 2010

I flit back and forth between Safari, Chrome, and Firefox but always end up using the latter as my ‘main’ browser for one simple reason – the plugins.  While Chrome may be quicker and Safari launches faster and has better text rendering, Firefox can’t be touched for one simple reason – the vast array of [...]

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Microsoft name-and-shame

November 19, 2009

This morning Dan’s mailbox was graced with some shitty Microsoft newsletter which named and shamed 21 companies busted for selling computers with dodgy copies of their software.  It’s surprising to see how many of these are from ‘up North’ (Bolton, Manchester, Oldham and so on), and just out of curiosity I did a quick Google [...]

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Favourite Mac OS X Applications

November 13, 2009

I was nosying back through some old posts on my site and came across this one from 2006 regarding my favourite Mac OS X applications, and figured it’d be interesting to  update this for 2009 / 2010.  While the ‘way’ I work feels like it hasn’t changed, the range of core applications I use to [...]

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Vista stability?

November 12, 2009

Here’s a choice quote from Simon Aldous, who is a Microsoft’s partner group manager, regarding Windows 7.  While on one hand it’s nice that Microsoft have (finally) admitted that they’ve drawn heavily from Mac OS X’s design and philosophy when it comes to the user interface, his closing comment is what stands out (for all [...]

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Booting 64-bit Snow Leopard on a 2008 13″ Unibody MacBook

October 11, 2009

According to this post, booting into a 64-bit kernel in Snow Leopard on the ‘original’ 13″ Unibody MacBook is artificially crippled by Apple, despite the hardware being perfectly capable:
$ ioreg -p IODeviceTree -w0 -l | grep firmware-abi
| |   “firmware-abi” = <”EFI64″>
This is somewhat annoying given that I’m a proud owner of said machine.  Why bother, [...]

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Twitter account suspended

August 13, 2009

23:31 [nick] man nice
23:31 [nick] my twitter account has been suspended
23:31 [nighty-] lol wtf
23:31 [nighty-] why?
23:31 [Durz|lnx] oh noes
23:31 [nick] no idea
23:31 [Durz|lnx] gonna be climbing the walls within a couple of days
23:31 [Durz|lnx] trainspotting style
I’ve been a pretty keen user of Twitter for about 18 months now, but that all stopped last night thanks [...]

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Fever Sleeve

July 1, 2009

A decent RSS client is one of those must-have applications in my experience (if you value keeping up with anything on the Internet that is), something that let’s you quickly sort the wheat from the chaff, save time by not having to browse sites individually, and consolidate all that information flow into one place on [...]

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Gmail, mutt, and archival / deletion of mails

June 24, 2009

My usual system of managing emails is pretty simple.  Anything that I need to follow up or reference in the near future lives in my Inbox.  If it’s something I want to save, it gets archived out of the way and I can search for it later.  Pretty easy, right?
This is straightforward when using Gmail’s [...]

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Stopping brute force SSH attacks with pf

September 1, 2007

pf, which originated from the OpenBSD project, is easily one of the most elegant firewalling solutions I’ve ever come across. Check this example out. I was getting pretty tired of all the SSH dictionary-type attacks on our new box – a problem compounded by the fact that we’re running various jails and so [...]

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