February 2012
14 posts
Indiana lawmaker: Girl Scouts a 'radicalized... →
That’s nothing, the Girl Scouts I’ve seen selling cookies have entire sashes dedicated to the display of their merit badges in Advanced Whoring, Pole Dancing, and Lesbianism.
“We have a wide assortment of Gene Picks.”
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these MacInTouch readers are angry about Mountain... →
sneak peek of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion →
iMessage coming to Mac OS X is obvious but very welcome.
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They look like ^H
Invisible to the naked eye are the hesitation marks left on every sentence that I have written in the last year.
A reluctant attempt to better express something.
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“Essentially our adversary is Comic Book Guy, and he kicks our ass daily.”
– JDP on INFOSEC
2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S Review: A Magnificent... →
Here’s an off-the-rack sports car with lateral adhesion in the range of 1 g, a car that hits 60 mph in 4 seconds (the 394-horsepower Carrera S with the dual-clutch PDK gearbox), a car that trips the trap lights in about 12 seconds and decelerates from 60 mph to 0 in about 100 feet.
This is not the smoothest bus ride I have ever had. Stomp on the pedals more, Ms. Jerkbus.
Hide From Google - Wired How-To Wiki →
(via Instapaper)
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soy loco por los cornball
I like ZEVO
Protip: vmware virtual machines really can take advantage of ZFS’s filesystem compression. What takes 51GB on cornballer/vurt takes almost 70GB on my NAS’s ext2 filesystem.
cornballer 51.3Gi 405Gi 480Ki /Volumes/cornballer
cornballer/vurt 51.3Gi 405Gi 51.3Gi /Volumes/cornballer/vurt
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NYT reposts Foxconn story in China, to different... →
“If the story is simply blaming Apple and Foxconn,” wrote a user on the Chinese social site Weibo.com, “then it is simplifying the problem. Other companies including HTC, Lenovo, HP and Sony and their OEM [subsidiaries] … share the same situation,” adding that OEM factory workers are often “working in even harsher environments and having more overtime”...
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Where the girls are →
January 2012
32 posts
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SWTOR on VMWare Fusion →
There is a regression in VMWare that the new virtual graphics devices have a different data path, giving you a black screen when you try to get your Jedi on.
Users of Parallels didn’t have this problem, and now VMWare has started working on a fix and has made the older VMWare Tools video drivers available for those of us that can’t stand rebooting into Windows every time we want to...
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hellyeah! show episode 1x23 →
This is a good one. I’m really entertaining.
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Does an order to decrypt a hard drive violate the... →
The following is written in response to some articles and commentary on MacInTouch, regarding Declan McCullagh’s article on CNET about Judge Blackburn’s decision ordering Ramona Fricosu to decrypt her laptop.
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Sick burn, Boehner →
Countering President Obama’s decision to host Warren Buffet’s secretary for the State of the Union, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday he will host a handful of people who would have benefited if Mr. Obama had approved the Keystone XL pipeline.
In other words, Boehner has invited everyone that would benefit from this scheme. That’s just the kind of big thinking we...
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iPhone 4 users without Siri may like Evi →
And once the service stabilizes I’m sure I’ll be able to use it. A real shame Apple just can’t let iPhone 4 users have Siri.
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Rep. Lamborn boycotting the State of the Union... →
Hey remember when this assbag referred to being linked to the policies of the President of the United States as “touching a tar baby”?
I’m shocked SHOCKED to hear that he’s also one of those attorneys in Congress that doesn’t do anything but argue with people over and over again.
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In a hilarious turn of events, two of the four disks in my NAS at home are starting to collect ever-escalating numbers of re-allocated sectors. I have shipped 4 disks to Seagate this month already.
My prediction: I ship 4 more by the end of February.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My... →
(via Instapaper)
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class -... →
An excellent article on the state of manufacturing in the United States, and Apple’s supply chain.
“I bet you can’t show me a single product for the Mac owned by Symantec...”
– http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/9548/pgp-desktop
In the two easiest modes Visual Studio questers... →
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I hope SOPA passes →
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Sadly, the Star Wars: Garbage Compactor Bathtub Playset never sold more than a few dozen units, and languished on shelves until being recalled by Kenner in 1982.
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Storing my VMware guests on a ZFS filesystem with compression and dedupe active has been a good move. My rsync’ed copies of an OS X Server VM take up 33.5GB on the NAS, but only 23GB on the ZFS slice it lives on.
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Unison sync and launchd(8) →
I have multiple computers that I want to have a common Documents folder. How to keep track of all my folders, files, code trees, notes, and even DEVONthink Pro databases without resorting to Dropbox?
Hands across America
Shawn: happy borfday, foo
Shawn: and a hj for every year
Me: bahaha sweet ty
Me: wait, who is giving them
Me: and will they use Western Grip
Shawn: Knowing you?
Shawn: You probably have 35 options
Me: if i really sit and think about it, i may
Me: maybe a world tour
Me: "IT WAS NINETEEN NINETY FIVE"
Shawn: haha
Me: "WE WERE IN YOUR MOTHERS OLDSMOBILE"
Me: "LETS DO IT AGAIN"
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Freedom in the future will require us to have the... →
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6.70Mi resilvered, 0.00% done
My replacement to the replacement drive showed up today.
· @lindsay · ~ % zpool status
pool: oubliette
state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will
continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
scan: resilver in progress since Tue Jan 10 18:36:05 2012
6.92Mi scanned out of 655Gi at...
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fseventer →
Observes filesystem changes using the same underlying API as Spotlight
Provides a graphical representation of the file activity
This is probably one of the coolest utilities I’ve seen lately. Watching fsevents in real-time and being able to see what was opened/closed/modified/moved/renamed is great when you’re troubleshooting a metadata and filesystem sync process.
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iTunes is a terrible place to organize eBooks. It is also a terrible place to select which eBooks even make it onto your iPad.
I’m not even one of those iTunes haters that bitches about it constantly, I like iTunes a lot for music. It’s just horrible at managing eBooks. And if I really think about it, it’s not great at managing TV and Movies, either.
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building mencoder on Mac OS X
I use homebrew instead of fink (gross) or MacPorts.
There isn’t a formula for mencoder/mplayer, so you want to get comfortable, and build the package and discover any dependancies. I had to install faad2, ymmv.
HELP I CANT BUILD MENCODER, I GET AN ERROR AND BTW WTF IS BINUTILS LOL
./configure '--cc=clang'
THAT WORKED
You’re welcome.
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videomerge.sh
In the process of encoding my LaserDiscs of the theatrical releases of the original Star Wars trilogy, I’ve ended up with multiple files for each film. This is because back in my day, there was no BluRay or DVD and a LaserDisc can only accommodate 30-45 minutes each side.
For my co-host and those under the age of 30: Yes, we flipped a movie over periodically to continue watching it. The...
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http://show.hellyeah.com/2012/01/06/1x20-hellyeah-s... →
episode 20
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Recorded episode 20 of the hellyeah! show tonight.
It’ll be up soon on the website and swiftly following on iTunes.
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911's a joke in their town →
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the global 1% →
Half of the world’s wealth is in American hands.
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Giant tuna caught in Tokyo fetches record $747K -... →
If you ask me, this is a bargain, considering how delicious Bluefin is.
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The medical students also overestimated how clean... →
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December 2011
50 posts
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Ayatollah Phillip G. Kayser →
Ron Paul has received an endorsement from a mouth-foaming Evangelical Ayatollah, who believes a Ron Paul Presidency would allow him to bring about a radical “Christian” theocracy to Americans.
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a brief review of Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge MA
Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge is a fantastic hotel and a tremendous value. We stayed two nights of our New England tour in this hotel and as you may imagine I’m … fickle.
I have never stayed at a Kimpton hotel before, but if they’re anything like Hotel Marlowe, I’ll keep my eyes out for them. I’ve never really had a preference for a hotel before, so it seems kind of weird...
Santorum on CNN poll: ‘Hard work pays off’ →
Essentially, Santorum’s position appears to be that Romney is actually a liberal that doesn’t hate gay people enough and that Ron Paul is too crazy to be trusted with something like the Presidency, but that he is, because he TRIES REALLY HARD.
Huntsman on Iowa absence: 'They pick corn in Iowa' →
This will irritate a lot of people, but he’s absolutely right. The Iowa Caucuses have lost their significance, and with good reason: anyone considering Santorum, Bachmann and Gingrich for anything as important as the chief executive of our country may not have the sophistication to understand the job description.
Huntsman is the only GOP hopeful that could lead us anywhere you would want...