The Shadow File

We all know there are shady marketing/image promotion firms that do things like post fake reviews on Amazon.com and others. However, I'...

I've want to put down in words a few loosely related thoughts on controversy regarding Apple's policy of not allowing Adobe Flash Pl...

I needed to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) in a VMware Virtual Machine so that I could try to reproduce a bug. It was kind of an asspai...

I've been running my iPhone jailbroken for a couple of weeks. At first I felt dirty about having callously cast aside many of the legit...

I hate to admit it, but GEICO commercials have a pretty good track record for featuring good pop music. Whether it's 3 Doors Down , Roy...

I just discovered that Leopard's Spotlight does math. Try it. Bring up spotlight with ⌘ +space . Then start typing something like 7pi*...

Here are a few handy aliases that I keep in my .bashrc in OS X: alias cppwd='eval "echo `pwd` | tr -d \\\\n | pbcopy"' Th...

An ordinary AK-47 Kalashnikov automatic rifle would not be allowed through the time hole . One made of bacon , however, is an ideal candid...

Finally.

I have a Ruby project where I'm dumping a bunch of bookmarks from delicious.com, then fetching each bookmarked page for analysis. One of...

I always thought LVM (Linux's Logical Volume Manager) was kind of neat for the flexibility it gives you in adding and removing disks and...

There was a great video on College Humor addressing why terminators travel back in time naked. See more at CollegeHumor That said, I t...

Sometimes you need to determine programatically whether a computer is on battery or on AC. For example, I have a backup script that takes h...

I have an operating system install image that I need to install in VMware Fusion. The problem is the install image is a MacOS disk image f...

Okay, this one's a bit esoteric, but I think it's pretty cool. How do you use 'sudoedit' non-interactively such as from a s...

Until Hauppauge released the HD-PVR this past May, there was no way to record in high-definition from your cable or satellite box. Your HD ...

apt-cacher-ng hasn't exactly worked out as well as I had hoped. I kept having a problem where the Releases file from the apt repository...

We just got our FiOS internet hooked up. I opted for the 20Mbs up, 5Mbs down option. Here's a bandwith test from speedtest.net: Other th...

I saw the greatest log message in my MacBook's system log this morning. SyncServer[8551]: SyncServer: Truth vacuumed. Next vacuum date 2...

I have several machines on my network running Ubuntu Linux which need to be updated regularly to keep up with security updates and the like...