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I like all kinds of food.

VLC and wireless networks

Posted on October 27, 2006 by dre

I typically keep all my digital media on either my desktop at home or my server, but I like to watch it on the laptop while reclining in my papasan chair, or perhaps just kicked back in bed. The problem … Continue reading →

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Ice Weasels?

Posted on October 12, 2006 by dre

14:57 < sky> debian forked firefox? haha 15:00 -!- PowerUser [i=hollandp@nat/apple/x-c57695efe759d747] has quit ["Fly the white flag of war!"] 15:21 < dre^> lol, why? 15:24 < johnny-o> the inability to modify the artwork, if you can actually believe that 15:24 … Continue reading →

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This seems important enough.

Posted on September 18, 2006 by dre

If Clinton can get impeached for a blowjob, I would think that Bush can get nailed for illegal wiretapping. Oh fancy that, you mean congress is trying to slide through a vote to pardon the president!?! How could THAT happen?!?!?! … Continue reading →

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Decrypting afp mount strings

Posted on September 15, 2006 by dre

{10} andre@werk [~] % mount | grep /Volumes/andre afp_006Af01nOUmc001Eic06SdO0-1.2c0000ae on /Volumes/andre (nodev, nosuid, mounted by andre) Huh? how helpful is that! How can I tell what server it came from? Yeah, I could netstat, but what if there’s a bunch … Continue reading →

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big mac

Posted on September 12, 2006 by dre

My Mac Pro arrived today. It’s pretty awesome. The first time I opened the cpu panel (after installing CHUD), I thought it was broken. I had all my normal stuff running (safari, ichat, mail, many terminals, itunes, console, a few … Continue reading →

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Spotlight indexes on read-only media

Posted on September 8, 2006 by dre

Here’s a way to let spotlight do a full content index of a read only CD. It can even persist across uses :) #!/bin/sh # pass in the name of the r/o volume, e.g. DiskWarriorCD # this is proof of … Continue reading →

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Get this

Posted on August 20, 2006 by dre

This one right here. $30. it’s a blast :) don’t get the jet, it’s too fast. biplane = a nice leasurely flight. you probably won’t, for example, get it lost very high in a tree next to the parking lot … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 16, 2006 by dre

Allow me to formally introduce yet another new blog on the Internet: The Bits is just a stupidly generic name for a place where I can put all my borish geeky stuff. From the about page: In this blog, you … Continue reading →

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macosforge opens the doors

Posted on August 15, 2006 by dre

What with opendarwin closing down shop, this seems like a good time to mention that macosforge has seen some rather remarkable activity today. A pile of previously internal Apple bugs were exposed to the world for all to see (including … Continue reading →

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WWDC and whatnot

Posted on August 15, 2006 by dre

WWDC ’06. Yep. Of course the content is all confidential, but you may have already seen the keynote. I worked the Enterprise IT lab for a few sessions this year, as I did last year. This year I also managed … Continue reading →

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