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May 26, 2011

Console not updating or asl manager taking 100% CPU

Here's how to restart the Mac OS X 10.6 log managers after removing asl data. Corrupt asl data will either cause the logs in Console.app to not update or the aslmanager process to consume 100% CPU. Open the Terminal application...
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April 29, 2011

Bad Sectors on a hard drive

I was recently discussing hard drive errors with someone and they came up with the idea of zeroing out a hard drive to fix the bad sectors. Zeroing out the disk may appear to fix the issues for a while, but...
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April 20, 2011

Where have you been?

It seems that for some unknown reason, your iPhone keeps a record of every cell tower that it's ever talked to, and this data is marked with the current time (accurate to the second) and the latitude and longitude of...
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February 4, 2011

The Chapel – HDR video

Here's a short film on Vimeo - The Chapel paying tribute to an exceptional protestant temple in Zeliszów, Poland, designed by Karl Langhans and built in 1796-1797. There's also a making of video as well that is quite worth watching.
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February 3, 2011

Headless Install of Mac OS X Server 10.6

I had to install a Mac mini Server today and couldn't get a spare monitor to plug it in to for the installer. In the past, I'm sure I've been able to use Apple Remote Desktop to connect to it...
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