They're Real
You thought Space Invaders were simple, low-res cute faces? Well, it turns out that those iconic sprites were just their shadows... "They're Real" - Gaming,...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Flash on the iPhone
I don't think so. While this is all over the internets, I wanted to preserve a copy of my own... Visiting http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer on the iPhone give...
Read post →Make an ATI Radeon for PC work in a Mac
With a relatively simple firmware reflash. Hardmac.com : Le "Macbidouille" in English - It Has Never Been so Easy to Flash an ATI PC Card with Mac OS X . It...
Read post →Collective Nouns
Ever wondered what some of the more esoteric collective nouns might be? Need to refer to a group of spectres, demons, elves, humans, robots or just about any...
Read post →ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick's Blog
Thanks Sun, I know you were waiting to announce this once Apple oficially dropped support for ZFS like the proverbial hot potato. ZFS Deduplication You knew...
Read post →Kernel Panic on the Beagle - FIXED.
I had an issue where the beagleboard would kernel panic after a cold boot, yet if I hit the reset button it would boot up OK. Thanks to the helpful people ov...
Read post →OpenSSH Server on BeagleBoard with Ubuntu
Once USB Networking has been configured on the BeagleBoard, everything becomes a lot easier. As ARM is now a first-class citizen for Ubuntu builds, there's n...
Read post →USB Host-to-host networking on the Beagle Board
I was able to pretty easily get USB networking on the beagleboard, going between my Mac and the beagleboard without a USB to Ethernet adapter (of which I hav...
Read post →HOWTO: Ubuntu on the BeagleBoard
This post is more to gather information that's spread over a few different pages all into one place, so if I need to do it again from scratch I've got an eas...
Read post →Ubuntu on ARM - running on the BeagleBoard
I'll post up a HOWTO later, but for now here's where I'm at with it: ubuntu@beagleboard:~$ uname -a Linux beagleboard 2.6.29-oer44.1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Sep 3 15:...
Read post →/dev/why!?!: The loss of ZFS
More information on the demise of ZFS within Mac OS X. /dev/why!?!: The loss of ZFS .
Read post →The BeagleBoard
I'm working on a project that's pretty scant on details at the moment, but it's going to be based around a small computer with an attached LCD. I haven't sel...
Read post →A people's history of the internet
The Guardian have put together some history, as well as input from their readers and produced a great overview of the last 40 years of teh interwebs. On one...
Read post →Hey look, my car has a CD player
I installed it myself... There, I Fixed It: Epic Kludges + Jury Rigs What? It Said CD On It « .
Read post →YouTube - It's Party Time!
YouTube - It's Party Time! . This makes that terribly painful Microsoft Windows 7 Launch Party video actually worth watching. Just a couple of subtle edits...
Read post →ZFS on Mac OS X... Not so much.
The writing was on the wall when it wasn't shipped with Snow Leopard, in fact Snow Leopard had even worse zfs support than Leopard did, and that's saying som...
Read post →Jeremy Clarkson on: idiots - BBC Top Gear
I really can't say it any better than this: Now let me make one thing absolutely plain. Dress codes are for the terminally stupid. Telling your guests what t...
Read post →SBS loses Top Gear to Nine
What a great big salty bag-o-balls. Top Gear with even more ads (although if I see that Shannons ad one more time on SBS, I'm gonna scream), and the Aussie T...
Read post →The best kind of advertising
I love advertising when I get something out of it. In this case, VW are advertising their new GTI. It will be an awesome car, but that's beside the point. VW...
Read post →Trust me...
How can I not post this? Windows 7 is not going to have any of the problems that Windows Vista had, trust me! While I'm at it, there are another two over her...
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