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I’ve just starred a new item in Google Reader It turns out Phantom cameras are useful for more than just destroying household items and blowing stuff up. This Fiat Abarth spot made use of the slow-motion wonder cam in this fantastical “still moving image” and the behind the scenes is pretty amazing. Director Dave Hill [...]

I’ve just starred a new item in Google Reader To understand incoming and outgoing rules there are a couple of things to know before you can define your rules. Let’s start with an understanding of traffic flow on an ASA. All incoming rules are meant to define traffic that come inbound to the ASA’s interface. [...]

I’ve just starred a new item in Google Reader The Cisco ASA 5505 is great for small to medium businesses. Below are the steps you will have to complete to configure your ASA to communicate with the internet. There are many more steps, options, and features to these devices (which later there will be more [...]

Good article on Mac OS X hints today with a shell script to create or update the Lion Recovery Partition http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120316132618149

I’ve just starred a new item in Google Reader The /etc/authorization file in Mac OS X can be used to control access to the various panes of the System Preferences amongst other things. It’s used by some of us Mac Sys Admin’s to give Standard Users access to System Prefs panes that only admins could [...]

I’ve just starred a new item in Google Reader The 27″ monitor opens to expose user-serviceable components designed for no-tools swapping. The Z1 isn’t even supposed to ship until April, so it’s all just hype right now. But it’s working on me. Will be curious to hear what the early adopters report. [Thanks, Phil!] HP [...]

I’ve just starred a new item in Google Reader As drives become huge, the risk of data corruption becomes an ever increasing concern. Corruption can be subtle— “bit rot”, bit flips during file transfers, etc, and these can accrete over time. Read more from Mac Performance Guide http://macperformanceguide.com http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120218_1-ZFS-for-OSX.html

I’ve just starred a new item in Google Reader from Calvin and Hobbes (Unofficial) http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2012/01/15/

I’ve just starred a new item in Google Reader Mat Honan reports from CES.  ?  from Daring Fireball http://daringfireball.net/ http://gizmodo.com/5875243/