That status bar has been spinin for over a week.
Apparently there’s some bug in OSX such that when you enter incorrect credentials for an smb share finder freaks the heck out. There are at least two ways to solve the problem, you can force quit and re-launch finder or kill the processes PID …. I [...]
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iTunes Genius that is…a reflection on true genius will need to wait for another day.
When I first heard about the Genius feature in iTunes, I was excited. It seemed like a promising feature, and it certainly is…but in my experience, it’s still only that – promising.
On a scale of ‘Completely Clueless’ to ‘Near Genius’, I [...]
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Intro:
Recently a project fell into my lap which presented an interesting challenge; my boss wanted to be able to audit who was accessing social security information in our database. The term audit is thrown about a good deal and can be less than speciffic. Here I am talking about audit in the sense of being [...]
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Another one from the Freakonomics Blog:
Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum
This one caught my eye since I am sort of a MySpace / Facebook ‘hold-out’ as they say (though I did have Facebook in the early days for 6 – 8 months or so).
It’s a sampling of comments from various thinkers on the [...]
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A fairly interesting article from Wired on the iPhone:
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
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First and foremost I should state the Network Monitoring and Advisory Services is only available to those with MySQL Enterprise edition … this means no source code is available for download.
MySQL AB (the company which markets and commercially develops MySQL) calls its Enterprise product the most comprehensive offering of MySQL database software, services and support. [...]
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When I was a little boy my Mouther bought me a box of Alphabets cereal and crushed my world view. I was quite excited as the commercial for the cereal clearly showed eating it would cause cartoon’s to pop out of little clouds hovering above your head. In my disappointment I learned several valuable lessons [...]
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I splurged.
Last night joining the mindless masses I unwrapped a shiny new iPod. I should perhaps mention this is my first ever Apple manufactured iPod. In the summer of 2004, as college student looking for some nerd crud on the cheep, I assembled a sort of 3rd generation Frankenpod made of various parts gathered [...]
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I did not have the chance to look very closely at BZR until our new programmer came on. I felt bad neglecting our VCS and the frustration it inspired was becoming quite stifling. After speaking with a few of my friends who work in technology related fields it seams that both neglect and frustration often [...]
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Its not a big secret that I’m not an amazing programmer. As a philosophy major with a bit of Systems related experience I knew applying for a database programmer position was a rather ballsy move. I did not expect to get the position but my increasingly desperate financial situation necessitated drastic action.
Shortly after I [...]
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