I could not agree more with this sentiment. There's nothing wrong with speed bumps, small and more frequent updates to the hardware rather than going for years with nothing and then a monumental change. It’s very difficult to recommend much...
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Apple held their annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) overnight. This is where they generally announce all the new features in upcoming versions of their software. This year they announced iOS 12 for iPhones and iPads, macOS Mojave (10.14) for Macs,...
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I was unaware that there was quite a safety net built into this feature. Like many other people, I haven't enabled the option to erase all data on my phone after 10 failed passcode attempts for many of the reasons...
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Here's a great tip over on TipBITS that I didn't know, but could come in handy some day. I usually have no need at all for seeing invisible files in the Finder. If I'm doing anything to do with invisible...
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I recently needed to use ssh to connect to an old Cisco ASA5505 firewall. As it turns out, the Java interface doesn't work in any current version of Java and it's got such an old version of ssh that it...
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Apple have released the iOS 11.4 update for iPhones and iPads. The main improvement is the addition of AirPlay 2 which allows HomePod speakers to play multi-room audio (like Sonos) and to have two of them linked as a stereo...
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If you've got a Windows Server without the Desktop Experience (which, in Windows Server 1709 is the default, and only option) then you're going to have to get used to managing things from the command line. When you initially log...
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I had an issue where I couldn't start a web server on a Windows Server as something was already listening on TCP Port 443. netstat -a -b just showed me that something was listening on 0.0.0.0:443 but also said that...
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It's long been a source of frustration for me that CAD software usually doesn't use the OS vendor's provided installers and instead they roll their own. Vectorworks and Archicad, I'm looking at you. When an application uses an app based...
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