I follow the Ubuntu Geek blog, and have found some very useful tips there. However, there’s a problem with their latest tip, “Howto Check you (sic) external IP Address from the command line.”
Some background: There’s a very useful website located at whatismyip.com, which reports the IP you used to connect to the site. If you’re [...]
I’ll now be working from home two days a week, and took a work iMac home with me. (Doing coding on my 12″ iBook would be too painful to contemplate.)
So last night, and this morning, I did a complete, from-scratch build out on this iMac. I’ve been building up a list of the software I [...]
Mark Pilgrim nails the whole iPhone unlocking/bricking brouhaha:
I don’t understand this continuing obsession with buying things that you need to break before they do what you want. It’s not just the iPhone; people did the exact same thing with the AppleTV too… I thought the big draw for Apple hardware was that “It Just [...]
I’m focusing in on some very important parts of my workflow. Version control is Subversion. I’m most of the way through the book on it.
Text editing is TextMate. I was trying to use vim, because it’s one editor I can use both on my OS X desktop and SSH’d across the network to linux boxes. [...]
The folks behind Subversion don’t produce an OS X binary, so they link to a third party who produced one. Unfortunately, the current regular version is 1.4.3, and the latest OS X binary is 1.3.
I found a different binary at Martin Ott’s site. I have no idea why his site isn’t linked from Subversion’s, but [...]
It’s time to become a code ninja.
I’ve been looking at the long list of technologies I need to master for work. (And quickly!) I’ve also been looking at the even longer list of technologies I’m interested in and would like to study in depth.
Clearly, I can’t do it all. Not immediately, at least. (And certainly [...]
From 1999, but still very good advice. Via 43Folders, with a summary.
I downloaded a file called procrastination.doc from 43folders or Lifehacker or one of the other personal productivity sites I follow. It’s been sitting on my desktop since the beginning of April, and I’ve been meaning to read it.
Somehow I found that funny. I just printed it out. We’ll see.
(Turns out it WAS from Lifehacker.)
So I’ve been playing with BrowseBack lately, and I’m pretty impressed. It’s a Macintosh product that keeps a running watch on what web pages you visit (you can exclude pages like webmail, your online banking sites, etc.) in a permanent archive on your computer. (You can set it to take up as much or little [...]
So I just upgraded my office computer from a dual-processor G5 to a new “Quad-Proc” ((Of course, it’s not REALLY quad-processor. It’s two dual-core processors. But it’s still really fricking cool.)) and I used Apple’s Migration Assistant to move my files over. Pulled the hard drive from my old Mac, stuck it in my new [...]
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Posted 04 May 2006
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