How to get Juniper Network Connect working with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard


Published on March 9th, 2010
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I’ve had issues getting Juniper’s Network Connect app to work on Snow Leopard. First up, it simply wouldn’t install at all, which was a bit of a problem.
Turns out you can download the dmg from the firewall through the url /dana-cached/nc/NetworkConnect.dmg – eg, if you’re connecting to example.com then the url will be https://example.com/dana-cached/nc/NetworkConnect.dmg (No, [...]

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The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work


Published on March 3rd, 2010
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Why DRM Doesn’t Work
via The Brads – a comic about web design.

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Allowing all users to access files uploaded to OS X via ftp


Published on February 25th, 2010
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When creating a shared FTP folder on Mac OS X, the uploaded files are only accessible by the user who uploaded them. This isn’t much help if there’s a shared ftp upload folder.
There’s fortunately an easy solution:
Create, or edit, /etc/ftpd.conf
Insert the following line into the conf file:
umask all 022
Save, and restart FTP – turn file [...]

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10 photo manipulations to mess up your mind with


Published on February 23rd, 2010
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Been too busy to post anything here lately, getting my BAS done and other stuff that’s equally as exciting. Anyway, here’s a bit of a change of pace:
10 photo manipulations to mess up your mind with.

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Toy Story 3


Published on February 13th, 2010
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Toy Story was Pixar’s first full-length film, and the first 100% computer-animated feature film. It was released in 1995. It was reportedly completed on a budget of $30M USD by just 110 people. Final rendering for it was completed with a render farm of just 300 CPUs and something like 800,000 machine hours to produce [...]

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Flash ? Core Animation


Published on February 12th, 2010
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Flash 10.1 on Mac OS X is looking like it will suck less than it has in the past. Adobe appear to be making the considerable effort to leverage Core Animation on OS X to help Flash’s drawing out. I don’t know that this will help with H.264 decoding (YouTube etc) but it can’t hurt [...]

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