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Weak everyday security

June 26, 2009

Ever own a Ford or Lincoln car with one of those keypad entry systems. They usually have 5 buttons, each with two numbers on them. 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/0 If you’ve ever owned one, you probably know that pressing the last two buttons locks the doors. Yes, this is the same on every single [...]

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OS X Leopard Hacks

June 11, 2009

Here are a few settings you can change using the OS X defaults command to access some system parameters. As always, proceed with caution, and don’t mess with things of which you have no clue. I have only verified these in OS X 10.5 – no promises if they work in any other version. Some [...]

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Last week Gizmodo posted a link to a 4gb Lexar SSD, for only $6.99. So, I figured, what the heck, its 7 bucks with free shipping… Anyway, it showed up in the mail today.
So, I determined that I wanted to try moving my swap file over to this guy, and see if I see a [...]

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Recently, my fiance pointed out to me that I have a bad habit of nitpicking my everything I watch. Anything from calling speaker wire network cable (latest episode of Burn Notice), or questioning why the Decepticon bot (the one that hacks the POTUS mainframe on AirForce One in the Transformers movie) pulls two drives out [...]

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Web Searches via Quicksilver

December 1, 2008

Everyone does a fair amount of googling these days, but any network engineer can tell you that a quick ARIN whois search can be invalueable. I know I end up there quite often. Anyway, when I got my mac a friend told me to make sure I checked out Quicksilver, that it would be amazing.. [...]

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