Posted on February 23, 2010 in Experience
This is a very cool little app that I found after listening to Security Now Episode 233: Let's Design a Computer. Some of the basic circuits were hard to visualize and this app kind of brings them to life with animated current flow and some interactivity. For the podcast you'll …
Posted on February 11, 2010 in How-to
I used these instructions to get my Windows 7 clients to connect to my Mac 10.4 server.
Early adopters of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system may notice that it will not connect to Samba share folders out of the box. This will be a bit of a pain …
Posted on February 03, 2010 in Fix-it, How-to
iPhone Wifi not working? Reset your network settings | A Mountain Top, LLC.
From the Home Screen, I clicked on "Settings". From there, I scrolled down to "General" and clicked on it. From there, I scrolled to the bottom, clicked "Reset", then "Reset Network Settings". After accepting the warning that I …
Posted on January 07, 2010 in General News
Let your audience decide
Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most.
Everyone's voice is heard
The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate …
Posted on January 06, 2010 in General News
Posted on August 03, 2009 in Fix-it
The latest Java update from Apple broke JMeter... not sure why but JMeter needs Java 1.5. Add this line near the top of your jakarta-jmeter-2.X.X/bin/jmeter file using your handy dandy text editor. I like TextWrangler.
JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5"
If …
Posted on March 13, 2009 in How-to
If you are developing an application for Linux desktop and would like to automatically find out more information about system, use the following commands in shell scripts to gather information about system. Recently I was involved in project where I need to collect information about running GUI, browser and other …
Posted on February 09, 2009 in How-to
Finally a way to flush the DNS cache on Mac OS 10.5 "dscacheutil -flushcache". PC users have always had a way to do this with "ipconfig /flushdns" but Mac users usually had to restart. In Mac OS 10.4 there was "lookupd -flushcache" but that never quite worked 100 …
Posted on February 03, 2009 in General News
Maatkit (formerly MySQL Toolkit) contains essential command-line tools for MySQL, such as table checksums, a query profiler, and a visual EXPLAIN tool. It provides missing features such as checking whether slaves have the same data as the master.
Posted on January 22, 2009 in How-to
Taken from Adam Nash's blog Psycohistory. I apologize for not giving credit more explicitly when I first posted the article.
When you buy a Western Digital (WD) 1 TB My Book External Hard Drive, they usually come formatted for Windows using FAT32. Of course, if you are using it with …