December 20th, 2007
Yeah, well you can’t blame them of course… after all, they’re just the spokespersons for the industry, the tech know-it-alls right? In this video, Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian gets schooled by a system administrator at CNBC while getting a tour of the media giant’s 15 terabyte Apple Xserve RAID/Xsan setup. Makes you wonder if these writers [...]
November 30th, 2007
For quite a while now, Apple has dumped the old lookupd daemon and it may have confused some users. “How am I supposed to flush the DNS cache?” or “How can I restart DNS services without a reboot?” Fortunately, Apple now supplies dnscacheutil which takes care of everything and provides a great command-line interface for [...]
November 28th, 2007
Though there exists a CSS solution to do the same thing, this particular SIMBL plugin for Safari adds a configurable and intuitive microformats utility. One thing which may get annoying is the constant popping up of the “warning” window once a lot of websites start embracing microformats on every post or page.read more | digg [...]
July 6th, 2007
Detailed instructions, with images, on how to set up your iPhone to log in to the Colloquy IRC client so you can chat directly from the phone itself! Yes, you’ll have to use a running Mac to proxy the connection, but it’s a start. Hopefully soon there will be a linux-type daemon that can accomplish [...]
June 12th, 2007
“50 Cent’s masterwork “Candy Shop” is an eloquent and subtle meditation on the similarities between consuming candy and f**king. Classical composers Bach and Ligeti, on the other hand, took things a bit too far with their highly explicit, violin-only Chaconne (originally titled “****ing and ****ing in D Minor, 6th God**** Movement”).” Not sure if someone [...]