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Category Archives: bit bucket
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In preparation for a dreness.com site redesign, I am migrating away from LiveJournal, my longtime (but mostly abandoned) personal blog. WordPress offers import support from various sources, including LiveJournal. I let it grind for about 30 minutes and it got … Continue reading
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Permissions updated…
Spambots have been running wild lately, so I’ve tightened this site a little. To post a comment, users must be logged in and must have a previously approved comment – otherwise the comment goes into moderation queue. ** UPDATE They … Continue reading
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SJ
I only worked under Steve’s leadership for a few years, and never spoke to him in person. Even so, he earned my respect for thinking big and really wanting people to *understand* what he was after. The technology is definitely … Continue reading
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“It won’t break…”
” … it will break your batteries” says dogbert. This is what happens when you screw the battery cover on the apple bluetooth keyboard too tight! Can you guess which of the batteries below works reliably? :) (yes, these are … Continue reading
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Mac OS X QA launches
New site; Mac OS X QA – Technical Q&A about Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.
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Why I closed my facebook account
I’m writing this so I have something to link to, so I don’t have to keep answering the question over and over. Starting yesterday, I began to receive emails from various facebook friends, wherein they warned me that perhaps my … Continue reading
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Somniac and a UI scripting quickie
Just about every time I want an AppleScript to wait a second or two during script execution, I instinctively insert a “sleep x” statement, where x is some small number of seconds. Every time, I’m surprised when I test the … Continue reading
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GNU screen and white space, holy crap
GNU screen has been a key player in my workflow for a long time, and I’ve been putting up with a strange and very much undesired screen behavior for just about that long. I don’t fully understand the problem, but … Continue reading
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SSL Passphrase in Mac OS X Server
Here’s a one-liner (spread across two lines for the 80 column internet) for mining Mac OS X Server’s SSL passphrase out of Keychain: security dump-keychain -d /Library/Keychains/System.keychain | \ grep ‘”svce”<blob>=”Mac OS X Server certificate management”‘ -A 3 | tail … Continue reading
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