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: Install Gems Without sudo in macOS I came across a neat little command line tool via Rob Griffiths’ Robservatory this morning, a Ruby …
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: Rolling your own VPN server - Six Colors Jump to Post The advantage to using Linode is that since it’s a virtual server, rather than a VPN …
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: Daring Fireball - The Mac Pro Lives Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can …
: Spend the Night in the Sky Jump to Post Jack Kerouac spent the summer of 1956 manning a fire tower on Washington’s Desolation …
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: The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence Jump to Post Machine learning is different. Now, instead of humans designing algorithms to be …
: Creating custom Perspectives in OmniFocus – The Sweet Setup Jump to Post Perspectives in OmniFocus allow you to include additional task details like due date, …
: Philippians The book of Philippians is such a beautiful, and challenging book. This is what I needed to hear …
: The Life We Live My daughter’s cheerleading coach passed away last night. What was first thought of as diabetes …
: Outrage is Missing the Point Link Restating, underscoring, or even strengthening those scientific results won’t solve that …
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: Focusing is an Art, Not a Science Because the truth of the matter is that, however you go about it, you do need to build your capacity …
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: Future Viability of the Mac Despite aspirations of expanding my fields of interest and adopting new hobbies outside of …
: What Worked, and What Didn’t in 2016 Part of what’s been great about using Apple products is the feeling of living just a little bit in …
: The Recipe From time to time I wonder if I could get by without any 3rd party software installed on my Mac. …
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: Studying in the Pit I just started reading Cal Newport’s Deep Work and I’ve found myself nodding along in agreement …
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: Steve Jobs on Apple’s Courage 9to5 Mac in reference to “courage” from the September Apple event: It’s likely a reference to a …
: The September Apple Event Another keynote came and went yesterday, and there was nothing I could do after it was over. I …
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: Fractured Lands - How the Arab World Came Apart Link On a more philosophical level, this journey has served to remind me again of how terribly …
: Strava - Strive Jump to Post Being an athlete is simple – all you have to do is strive. I enjoyed this set of …
: The Unbelievable, Amazing, Astonishing American Dominance at the Olympics - The New Yorker Link And yet, the Americans were . . . wow. They were amazing. What else could you say? Part of the …
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: Voicemail to OmniFocus Workflow I got back from my morning run today and was sitting on the back porch, enjoying the morning air and …
: Henry Ford and the Actual Value of Education Jump to Post The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how …
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: BBEdit and Python Tags I’m in the process, a very long process, of switching from Vim to BBEdit as my primary editor. The …
: Trump’s Boswell Speaks - The New Yorker Link He saw Trump as driven not by a pure love of dealmaking but by an insatiable hunger for …
: CloudChain Today, the team I’m a part of at TargetSmart is releasing our first open source project, a bit …
: Worlds apart - All this Jump to Post I, of course, am stuck in the past, not willing to give up—or even share—the ownership …
: The NES Classic Edition This looks fantastic. The NES is coming back to stores! Pick up the new mini NES Classic Edition on …
: Top Four #16: Starbucks Cold Drinks - Relay FM Jump to Post Tiff and Marco go undercover into Starbucks once more, this time to find their …
: CHANGER paperbacks are now available! - Matt Gemmell My ★★★★★ action-thriller novel, CHANGER, is now available as a beautiful, 474-page paperback! …
: Standing Desk Review For the past two months I’ve been working, on and off, with a Rocelco Height Adjustable Standing …
: The New Setup Starting a new job working from home gave me the opportunity to evaluate exactly what I wanted from …
: Manton's Stickers I was listening to Core Intuition a few weeks back and Manton said that if anyone was interested in …
: Why Blog? Monday I was offered a new position, yesterday I accepted it. I’m hoping that this is the last time …
: Making The Move From Sysadmin to DevOps Everyone’s professional path follows a slightly different trajectory. We are each a unique recipe of …
: DevOps & Evolving Systems Administration The phrase “DevOps” gets thrown around quite a bit, so I thought it might be helpful for me to write …
: Everything Changes And everything is changing for me again. The CTO of the company I work for spoke with me yesterday, …
: Mac Power Tools My brief experiment with mutt ended mostly how I expected it would. With me turning on my email in …
: Power Tools After reading through Matt Gemmell’s latest post on mutt and the good doctor’s response, I fired up …
: Mac Magazine Sometimes I think I’d like a really great magazine, like The New Yorker, but for Mac geeks. A …
: Winning NaNoWriMo So, I won NaNoWrimo, and wrote a “novel”. Although, it’s not really a novel, more like a novella, …
: US Cellular Strikes Back Let me start by saying that US Cellular has the best coverage in Iowa. No matter where we go in the …
: Yet — 512 Pixels Jump to Post I look at this iPad Pro, being updated via my Mac, imagining the horses that were used …
: Faith, Hope, Love What if Christians actually lived the way Jesus commanded us to? Love your enemy. I’m afraid we’ve …
: Moby Dick I’ve been slowly working through my list of books, and Saturday I finally knocked another one off …
: Standing Around I was having problems with my lower back, not an uncommon issue, especially for those of us who …
: NetNewsWire 4 I’m not sure if I discovered Daring Fireball through NetNewsWire, or NetNewsWire through Daring …
: Tree history in Vim Jump to Post I’m sure it happened to you too. Just remember. That horrible moment when you …
: Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi With Contacts — Krebs on Security Jump to Post … it does allow anyone in your Skype or Outlook or Hotmail contacts lists to …
: Coming Soon – AWS Device Farm Support for iOS Apps | AWS Official Blog Jump to Post We launched AWS Device Farm earlier this month with support for testing apps on …
: Work - Transitional Link I could see that my 9-to-5 job wasn’t my destiny. It didn’t fulfill me or stimulate …
: What 2,000 Calories Looks Like - The New York Times Link Writers, nutritionists, doctors, chefs and Michelle Obama have all been promoting a hot new …
: Link Blogging With Quicksilver I can’t quite make up my mind on how I feel about “link blogging”. On the one hand, there’s already …
: Starting a New Post With Automator Automator is one of my favorite tools on the Mac, and unfortunately one of the most unappreciated. I …
: A Runner My workout this morning called for five miles. Run two, walk one, run the last two. I think in the …
: On Computing I often daydream about not caring about my computer, and being able to go blissfully through my life …
: Smartphone Cost and Value iPhones are expensive. Well, not just iPhones, all smart phones, Android, Windows, what have you. …
: Select A Column of Text in MacVim I often need to work with columns of text; output from commands, text grabbed from a web page, what …
: Goodbye to The Annual Review John Siracusa hung up his cape today, announcing on his blog that he would no longer be reviewing OS …
: Research Kit and the GPL Apple released ResearchKit as an open source project on GitHub today. The project is complete with …
: The Invisible MacBook A thread of minimalism weaves through Apple’s products, starting with the Bondi blue iMac and …
: Force Touch Band We took a trip to the mall the other day, and I took that chance to check out the new Force Touch …
: The New MacBook The tech world is once again loosing their grip after Apple has gone, as they see it, too far, too …
: Reading at Night A couple years ago I started reading classic books to my boys before bedtime. We started with The …
: The Long View Computers as tools for creation are unique in that they change and evolve over time as software is …
: The Best of What's Around Marco struck a nerve with his latest post lamenting the declining quality of Apple software. The …
: Marco and the Functional High Ground Marco Arment takes Apple to task over the decline in their software. Apple has completely lost the …
: Adopting BBEdit Scripts for Vim In addition to my experiments with the design of this site, I was also testing out BBEdit as my main …
: All Mine I’ve been experimenting with the design of this site for the past couple weeks. First, I used a …
: Cellular Options I pulled into the gas station on my way home after a long day, picked up my phone in my left hand, …
: The Million Monkeys Computers, the bicycles for the mind, the idea engines; when we work at a computer we open the door …
: Merry Christmas It’s nearly midnight on Christmas Eve. I’m the only one awake, perhaps with the exception of my dog, …
: Green Beasts My commute takes me past the sanitary landfill every morning, a daily reminder to be careful about …
: Things That Dont Belong in Browsers I still have a soft spot in my heart for Firefox, but it’s not my primary browser. I use Safari for …
: New Mac Essentials - 2014 Edition It appears I’ll be getting a new Mac soon, which means it’s time to take inventory of what I need. …
: AWS reInvent Conference The re:Invent conference was fascinating. Culture First, the overall experience of the conference …
: Open Source News Design Finding good design in open source can be hard, but it’s almost impossible to find in open source …
: Sensible Information Organization There is no one application or system that is right for managing all of your information. If there …
: Shellshocked Security Specialists Between 2000 and 2003 I was part of a small group that was responsible for the security of the …
: A Technical Education - The Operating System It’s good to think of a computer as something like a cake with several layers. If the hardware is …
: A Technical Education - Base Level Hardware The first and most important thing to remember when considering a computer is that computers are …
: A Technical Education I didn’t grow up with computers. They just weren’t a common thing in Montana in the 80’s. When my …
: Home Built Software and Systems GigaOm is running an article written by Ralph Dangelmaier, the CEO of BlueSnap, claiming “We’ve …
: The Apple I Knew As usual, John Gruber has the best take on the Apple Watch that I’ve read, and one sentence in …
: Marked Down If you really, really care about Markdown, Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and Stack Exchange fame has …
: Small Site Update I’ve been publishing this site with Jekyll for several years. I’m not sure exactly when I switched …
: What it Does Our relationship with technology has become unexpectedly skewed. I was just reading through Sid …
: Responsibility “UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.” – The …
: Site Design Non-Update The site design of jb was very nearly upgraded tonight. Well, upgraded is not quite the word for it. …
: For The Fun Of It I still need an anything bucket, and nothing fills that gap like my old friend Yojimbo. I was an …
: Converging Mobile and Desktop Environments Computing has been on a linear progression towards smaller, more mobile, and more personal devices …
: Command-T Crashing Vim For some reason today when I opened up MacVim and hit ,t to navigate to a file, MacVim crashed. The …
: Parsing iostat Results In the course of load testing a new system, we gathered the output from iostat from a group of …
: A Different Vision of the Future I ran across a few articles in the past week or so that predict the majority of the population will …
: Statement of Faith I am a Christian. I believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that he became a man and was born to a …
: Be Excellent To Each Other The recent row over iA Writer’s developers and their patent application reminded me what a small …
: Bigfoot Footnotes in Jekyll Like the good doctor, I knew as soon as I saw Bigfoot that I would be adding it to this site. 1 I’ve …
: Burn it Down As the year comes to an end it would be easy to look back and see all of the things that didn’t …
: Desktop Setup For a Sysadmin My Mac is a finely tuned machine. I have been using a Mac for Unix systems administration work since …
: Zen, Art, and Tools I’ve been a Mac user since returning to the states in 2003, but I’ve been a Unix user for a few …
: Go2 and Paragraphs Are Now Open Source I see no reason to keep the code for Go2 and Paragraphs to myself. I have no plans to continue …
: Avoiding Complexity I’ve noticed a tendency in my Mac setup to veer towards higher levels of complexity. In truth, I’d …
: Quicksilver Quicksilver will change the way you use your computer. That is not a claim to make lightly, but …
: Exciting Night My wife and I were sitting at the dinner table chatting, winding down for the night, when I saw a …
: Technical Education in K-12 Our small school is nearing the end of the four-year cycle for a one-to-one program that provides …
: For The Public Good I just finished another article for OStatic where I imagine what web services would be good …
: A Daring Adventure or, A Good Life I’ve been floundering. I’ll go ahead and call it an early “midlife crisis”. For the …
: Personal Information Architecture For my computer to be useful to me I need to be able to quickly save information, and then easily …
: Farmdog Closed Update: July 30, 2013 - Farmdog is not closed, but I am rethinking everything. Paragraphs will …
: Where We Stand In the online help for Paragraphs, I have a rather odd statement: Farmdog is made of dreams. That …
: The Hardware Racket Every now and then something just gets to me, and for the past few weeks, that something has been …
: Mozilla Turns 15 Mozilla has been one of my favorite open source projects since I first learned of them back in 2002. …
: Paragraphs In the back of my mind, I always knew that the name “Scout” made no sense. I like the name, I like …
: Scout Beta 2 So, quite a bit has changed in the past week or so. I got a lot of great feedback from a few beta …
: Updates on Farmdog, Scout, and Go2 Last week I sent in the certificate of organization to recreate Farmdog as an LLC in the state of …
: More Scout Tips Eventually I’m going to need to compile this into a proper help doc, but for now, documenting Scout …
: Beta Testing Scout Well, as much as I’d love to procrastinate for the rest of eternity, the time has come for …
: Real Music My grandparents house was outside of town, at the foot of the mountains, surrounded by woods. Papa …
: Electrogent's 50 Rules One of my favorite things about the Internet is finding a little treasure trove of writing and style …
: Details Thought of the week: I don’t like this “top ten” business. It’s the bottom ten that I like. I think …
: Vim Power No server, desktop, or laptop install is complete without Vim, and yet, there are times when I still …
: Meta You get good at something by doing it repeatedly. I’ve been writing on this site for six years now, …
: Cutting Corners After reading the MacSparky piece on craftsmanship, I’m reminded of how I like to look at my career …
: iTunes Gets A Bad Rap I’ve searched high and low for an alternative to iTunes, but I’ve yet to find a suitable …
: iCloud and Core Data I inadvertently started a bit of a conversation today when I complained about the state of …
: A World of Things It is very easy when living in the technology field to ignore the actual physical space we occupy. …
: Misunderstanding NSString So, while I was debugging the first post using Scout, I found an oddity in NSString. I was building …
: Scout and FTP Building a desktop application that manages creating your site is great, but only publishing to a …
: Footnotes and Other Scripts I’d like a really simple way to insert footnotes in the text. However, I’m not sure how much of that …
: Dogfood I would like to introduce you to Scout, my desktop, baked blogging engine. I’d like to, but Scout is …
: 13 Virtues for 2013 Instead of looking back, I like to look forward. As a guide on how I’d like to live the next year of …
: No More Guns I’m angry. You should be too. On December 14th, a young man shot his way into a locked elementary …
: On Culture You never need to prove to anyone who you are. You simple are who you are. Claiming that someone …
: Quiet Time The office is empty this morning. I just closed iTunes, and I am enjoying listening to my own …
: Energy Saver Preferences My MacBook at work sits on my desk all day and all night. When I sit down to work on it, I expect it …
: Forgotten and Beloved I was given a clean slate of a Mac to work with this past Monday, so I gave some thought to which …
: Reinventing The Wheel Or, Redesigning the Tablet Computer This is an old paper I wrote in college in the Spring of 2006. …
: iOS 6 Headphones I have been pleasantly surprised by one small enhancement in iOS 6 that probably affected a very …
: ArcDown - My First Open Source Project Part of a Farmdog project I’m working on needs nice syntax highlighting for markdown. After …
: The Computer User I Want To Be Learning about computers can be a dangerous thing. Breaking though the veneer of graphical …
: Make it Matter You do what you do because it matters. At HP we don’t just believe in the power of technology, we …
: New Mac Essentials - MacVim Investing time learning a text editor is a serious commitment. Over time, you find yourself reaching …
: Living In The Technical Past Bruce Lawson has a few interesting things to say about computers. You may think it a badge of …
: Mountain Lion Reviews OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was released today, accompanied by a handful of reviews by the best tech …
: The end of do-it-yourself - TechHive Beta Blog Link It makes sense that you’d need a special tool or kit to replace a cracked screen, but why …
: Should All Software Be Free Introduction We live in the information age. Digital devices and Internet connected, hand held …
: New Mac Essentials - Quicksilver Introduction Setting up a new Mac can be fun, but time consuming too. As I scan the icons in my …
: The Winchester Imperative Major Charles Emerson Winchester III was a fictional character on one of my all time favorite shows, …
: A New World CocoaHeads changed my life. This afternoon I am killing time in a coffee shop, about to head to work …
: Recovering Data From FileVault Full Disk Encryption Disclaimer: If you do not have your recovery key, or if you have lost your passphrase, this post …
: Go2 1.3 Release Notes Most release notes are so dull. A cut and paste list of code changes, new features, and fixed bugs. …
: Uncompromising Others have already said so much about Steve Jobs stepping down as the CEO of Apple that I had …
: Writing Online Every so often I get the inkling to make this site more than what it is. Since 2008 I’ve been …
: A Glimpse of the Future The Motorola ATRIX 4G is technology released before its time. At first glance, it seems like any …
: Personal Quality My daughter had an ear infection. A common occurrence in children, so I brought her down to our …
: Text Editing in MacVim The venerable BBEdit recently received a big upgrade, and looks poised to attract users of TextMate, …
: Mission Control OS X Lion is a big step forward in personal computing, and, over the next few years, we are going to …
: Keyboard Driven Safari Update Since writing Keyboard Driven Safari I’ve updated my list of extensions that make Safari my browser …
: Letter to Lotus Notes Developers I have some issues with the design of Lotus Notes. I’m a relatively new user, I started using Notes …
: Stereotypically Apple makes great products, and Brooks Brothers makes great clothes, but neither make the man. It is …
: Found On The Path I woke this morning at 5:20, got dressed, and went outside for my morningworkout. Today’s weather …
: The Experiment The Experiment Ideas, Stress, and Time I remember someone saying once that ideas were worthless, and …
: Supersite Daring Fireball linked to Paul Thurrott today, citing Paul’s comment that Lion is simply an …
: Two Views Of The Cloud A few years ago, there was a distinction between the “world wide web” and the Internet. The …
: On TermKit - Steven Wittens I’ve been administering Unix machines for many years now, and frankly, it kinda sucks. It makes me …
: Solving The Right HA Problem High Availability, HA for short, refers to an applications ability to continue operating after a …
: Wallpaper Desktop wallpaper is a cheap trick. It’s only purpose is to make your computer screen look pretty, …
: Introversion Intuition Thinking Judgment INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion “Does it work?” to everythingfrom their own research …
: Mandatory My workplace is adopting Agile methodologies for our development and client relations departments. …
: Imperfect Dock Brent Simmons recently wrote about his dislike of the iCal interface in the latest developer preview …
: Jekyll Bookmarklet I have a handful of Automator scripts I’ve created to make maintaining this site with Jekyll just a …
: Principle of Least Software Use only the software that you need. No more, no less. Choose one application for each task, and …
: Keyboards and Wheels I have one wish for the next major iOS release: full keyboard support. The iPad works with the …
: Quicksilver and Go2 Go2 1.2 is in review, and when it is released it will bring a new feature that I’m hoping will speed …
: Fragility of Free - The Brooks Review When you pay for software/services upfront you know how much it is going to cost right away. via: …
: Back in Black There used to be a line between having a Mac, and owning a Mac, and that line was drawn with …
: Dazzle Them With Science It’s not really a science, it’s more of an art. If you are careful, and attentive, you can see when …
: Please Give The devastation from weather related disasters in the past few years has been overwhelming. Japan …
: Apotheker Seeks to Save HPs Lost Soul With Software Growth - Businessweek Starting next year, every one of the PCs shipped by HP will include the ability to run WebOS in …
: Anatomy of a Crushing We charged money for a good or service I know this one is controversial, but there are enormous …
: Our Lean Startup There is no profit margin on mediocre. While every company including ours has its hiccups as it …
: The end of the IT department 37 Signals comments on a trend I’ve been noticing for a few years. Data centers and IT departments …
: Handmade I love these videos from Field Notes. Play Field Notes: Making of Steno Book from Coudal …
: Be Great If you take a moment to look around the room you are in now, what do you see?Are you surrounded by …
: Reading and Readability Readability is a subscription based service that allows you to read the text off of websites in a …
: RSS Triage Like many who are interested enough in the tech industry to attempt to stay up to date on current …
: Keyboard Driven Safari A friend was explaining his preference for Google’s Chrome browser the other day, and was using …
: Friendly Conversation for the Drive It’s snowing again, which means my normal 40-minute commute will now be closer to an hour. …
: Past Blast I’ve loved reading some of the “Past Blast” articles that have beenlinked about in Twitter, so here …
: From Zero to the App Store This past Thursday I was privileged to speak at our local CocoaHeads about my history, and how I was …
: Go2 and the Mac App Store Yesterday, Go2 was one of approximately 1000 applications available on launch day of the Mac App …
: Delicious Bookmarks Word leaked out yesterday that Yahoo has it’s popular Delicious bookmarking service on the chopping …
: PC Apps Interesting choice of wording in Apple’s most recent press release. The intent of the release is to …
: The Proper Place of Technology In Our Lives It’s now the middle of December, which signals the end of my first semester ofgrad school. I took …
: Weekend With Android I should have known better… I do know better, but it was on sale, and it was Black Friday, and I …
: Android Marketplace Inconsistencies Living out in the farmland of Iowa where we do, there’s really only one carrier who provides decent …
: Emotions and Machines I’ve been using different forms of computer “chat” for over ten years now, starting with …
: Interaction Last night I did my civic duty by casting my vote at the local community center. I walked down since …
: Clean and Clutter Free I like to keep both my desk and my computer desktop clean and clutter free. I’ve found that when …
: An Idea About Money So, last night, when I should have been sleeping, I had an idea. What if, instead of going to a bank …
: The Smell of Salt A long, long time ago, what seems like a different life now, I was a Sailor.Towards the end of my …
: Quality We’ve been having a months long discussion at work around which Linux OS to use. It’s …
: osvids I’ve been writing online since around 2000, starting with a geocities site. After that, I had …
: Opinionated As a carpenter has his tools, so do I, as a “knowledge worker” have my computer. I spend …
: Add a User - Send an Email I was asked on Twitter the other day why I disliked IBM’s enterprise software. This, in addition to …
: MobileMe Mail Revisited If the only computers you use are Macs, or if you only use Microsoft Outlook on a PC, you may not …
: Managing Nagios Configs We don’t have a very big Nagios installation, comparatively anyway, but it is big enough to …
: Blizzard 2009 100_1931, originally uploaded by jonbuys. Iowa got its first big storm of the winter season …
: New SysAdmin Tips My answer to a great question over at serverfault. First off, find your logs. Most Linux distros log …
: Linux Hidden ARP To enable an interface on a web server to be part of an IBM load balanced cluster, we need to be …
: SLES and RHEL Comparing two server operating systems, like SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and RedHat …
: Writing about Jekyll I’m writing an article for TAB about my new blogging engine, Jekyll. I’ve taken most of …
: The Unix Love Affair There’s been times when I’ve walked away from the command line, times when I’ve …
: Slowly Evolving an IT System We are going through a major migration at work, upgrading our four and a half year old IBM blades to …
: Teach A Man To Fish As a general rule, I really don’t like consultants. Not that I have anything against any of …
: Regarding OS Zealotry Today I found myself in the unfortunate situation of defending Linux to a man I think I can honestly …
: Personal Rules for Cocoa Happiness Understand every line of code written in my apps Use frameworks sparingly (see rule 1). Do not copy …
: Ping from Cocoa One of the features of Servers.app is that it pings the host and shows a little indicator for …
: Macs, Netbooks, and Education What does it mean when an entire community springs up around hacking together a product that is not …
: Jim Sanford My Mama said if I’d be good, she’d send me to the store. She said she’d bake some gingerbread if I …
: DiggBar This I’ve put a lot of work into this site. I’ve put thought into how I want the URLs to …
: NKOTB When I was younger, 20 years ago or so I suppose, the New Kids On The Block (NKOTB) were synonymous …
: Spit and Polish After spending a week with Linux as my sole computer, I find it very refreshing to come back home to …
: Tough to Turn Down I’ve been using Linux for nearly a decade now. I first had a guy I met in a Navy school …
: Adamo - Apple Pushes the Industry Forward I almost feel sorry for the other hardware manufacturers. No matter what they do, no matter what …
: Communications Ask any mechanic, machinist, or carpenter what the single most important thing that contributes to …
: Shell Script Style My co-worker and I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon going through a former …
: Systems Administrator From time to time I’m asked by members of my family or friends of mine outside the tech …
: A Work in Progress A few days ago I decided that I was not going to use anyone else’s theme on my site. It happened …
: JeOS For better or worse, we are starting to put Ubuntu JeOS images into production in our network. …
: Rota It was June of 1996 when I arrived in Rota. The Spanish sun was bright as I stepped off the creaky …
: The GI Hole In December 1995 I was halfway through boot camp, a time called service week. Service week was when …
: Consulting in Coralville In 2007 I spent two months working as a network engineer for a small tech consulting company. The …
: First Things First My phone went through the wash today. Turns out it happened first thing this morning. I really …
: Cocoa Last summer I decided to dive into programming and give it everything I’ve got. For months, I …
: The Sorry State of Enterprise Software I’ve been unlucky enough to be working with quite a few pieces of so called …
: Visual Thinking The ability to visualize a complex system is key to a real understanding of it. To me, this applies …
: New Years Day I love January 1st. It’s not that this day is really any different from any other day, other …
: Songbird Media Player Songbird is a very young product with a very bright future. The Mozilla based media player has come …
: Merry Christmas “And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could …
: The Coffee Cup I’ve had this coffee cup on my desk at work for the past year or so now. It’s just a …
: MobileMe is not a Blogging Platform I thought I’d try OSZen on MobileMe yesterday, to see if I could consolidate even more of my …
: How to Fix Linux It’s been nine years since I first installed Linux on a computer of mine. It didn’t last …
: AutoYast I wrote this last year and never posted it. I’m glad I found it and can post it now. One of the …
: Build Something Better What would it take to change computers? What would it take to build something truly revolutionary in …
: Account Pruning I’m a geek. Understanding that little fact puts me a little closer to being in touch with myself, …
: Nagios Check Scheduling Or, maybe a better title for this would be “They rebooted the server, why didn’t I get a …
: Essentials Inspired by Mark Pilgrim’s Essentials post, I thought I’d come up with my own list of …
: End of an Era The hard thing about keeping a job in the technology field is that it is constantly changing. Just …
: Poor Web Apps I just spent the past 10 minutes trying to get this article I wrote for BrightHub posted using their …
: New Apple Hardware There’s a lot to think about in the new MacBook line. The aluminum MacBooks are unquestionably …
: System P The more I learn about IBM’s P-Series UNIX systems, the more impressed I am. I’ve been a …
: Goodbye Cocoa Some times, things come easy to me. I’d like to think that I’m somewhat blessed in that …
: Development Environments and Software Quality In OS X, there is a small collection of very high quality software. This is a fact, and there is …
: Moving to Ubuntu - F-Spot I mentioned in my last post that I was giving up my MacBook so my wife could go to college, and …
: Ubuntu Scanning My wife has recently gone back to college, and, seeing as she’ll need it much more than I do, …
: On Graduation Day In May of 1995 I should have graduated from high school in the rocky mountains of Montana. Then, in …
: The Linux Box and Upgrading Java As a general rule, I really don’t like to go outside of the box when it comes to Linux. And by …
: Open Formats Remember the early days of networking… before TCP/IP became the standard protocol? Well, …
: The Master Craftsman The Master Craftsman works methodically, not slowly, not hurriedly. He has mastered the basics, and …
: Creative Uses for Wordpress Where I spend my days ($WORK), we have multiple monitoring systems for just about every service on …
: My Optimized Windows Workflow I love Linux, I really do. Compared to the older UNIX systems like AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris (who is …
: Contextual Search My personal browser of choice has almost always been Omniweb. Omniweb and I went through a tough …
: Starting Over My wife wanted me to read something that she was writing the other day, so I sat down at her laptop …
: Linux is not for MacBooks I recently gave Linux my second, and final, serious shot at running it full time as my primary …
: Writing and Word Processing A friend of mine is having a heck of a time with his new MacBook. He’s a recent convert to …
: Agility To create the perfect datacenter, what would you recommend? For me, the perfect datacenter would be …
: The Little Things Today I was out in the data center and decided to boot into Linux to get some work done on my Dell …
: License Restrictions Software licensing is one of the biggest expenses of high-end server systems. The vendors charge you …
: Oranges and Oranges A couple of months ago Linux Magazine published an article written by Scott Granneman comparing Mac …
: No Fail Diet Plan Seriously, does anyone really need to know how to loose weight these days? No matter what super plan …
: 9/11 I slept. The world changed all around me, and I slept. My wife woke me up in a shaking, excited …
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