Month: February 2010

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From the Ars Technica story:

A Michigan man is being prosecuted for using a cafe’s free WiFi… from his car.

The Michigan law apparently bars you from accessing someone else’s network without their explicit authorization.

Free Speech

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So I ran across a story on Slashdot about how ABC/Disney had a blog shutdown over the posting of some audio clips from a radio-station affiliate in conjunction with the blogger’s letters to the radio station advertisers over their tacit support of the comments and views of the talk radio hosts on the station.

The Slashdot post linked to a blog posting on the Daily Kos: State of the Nation that had more details.

Blogging, Cyberspeech, Free Speech

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Finding the right case for you iPhone can be a challenging and somewhat frustrating process.  Not only do you have to contend with the sheer number of case types, but you also have to balance the needs of your particular listening and working environments.  If you are like me you may have found that you […]

iPhone

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For those of you who are in the iPhone developer community or just are just geeky enough to pay for the developer program in order to get a sneak peek on your friends, I thought I would let you in on some information I received from Pandora concerning problems with the Pandora Radio application and […]

Technology, iPhone

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This is the first post using the WordPress app for the iPhone. It’s a pretty nice application, but it would be better if it supported the rotation feature to get the horizontal keyboard.

I do like the fact that you can add photos.

iPhone

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As I keep browsing the App Store to find more interesting applications, I find my self wondering exactly what criteria Apple is using to place the various applications in each category.
It’s not the actual application category or sub-category that I find strange, but the generic categories:

All iPhone Applications All iPod Touch Applications All Free Applications

New

iPhone

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This morning, as I have for the couple of days, I checked the App Store in iTunes for new applications for my 8GB iPhone 3G.  I noticed that when I sorted the new applications by release date that the NYTimes application showed a release date of July 16, 2008.  I thought that it was odd […]

iPhone

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So I just finished Prince of Persia on my PS3.  I decided that I would go and purchase the $9.99 Prince of Persia: Epilogue DLC from the PSN (PlayStation Network) store so that I could have some more PoP game time.
Turns out that I can’t purchase anything using my Bank of America debit card, because […]

Gaming, PS3, Technology

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Many of us have played online games. Even more of us play them with the intent of socializing during the game with our fellow players.

However, there is another group of online gamers, the mute ones.

Gaming

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So several months ago I was in Atlanta visiting some friends (Hi, Justin!) and got hooked on his hackintosh Plex box.  Now, I wanted to run it on a Mac Mini, instead of a hackintosh, but the application was great.  Since then I have purchased the Mini and had a blast getting Plex working and tweaked to do what I want.

If any of you out there running Plex have noticed that there seems to be quite a few instances of Python running when you have Plex up, here’s why: each plugin that you have runs under it’s own instance of Python.  Here’s what the development docs have to say:

Each media server plug-in runs in its’ own process, in a separate Python instance. This ensures that plug-ins can’t interfere with each other, or with the operation of the server.

So there you have it.  Essentially, each plug-in is sandboxed from each other as well as PMS.

If you want to see this in action, just shell into (or open up Terminal) when running Plex and execute the following command:

ps -ef | grep Python | grep -v grep | grep "Plug-ins"

You should see one entry for each of the plug-ins that you have installed.

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So I just finished Prince of Persia on my PS3.  I decided that I would go and purchase the $9.99 Prince of Persia: Epilogue DLC from the PSN (PlayStation Network) store so that I could have some more PoP game time.
Turns out that I can’t purchase anything using my Bank of America debit card, because […]

Gaming, PS3, Technology

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While working on a method to allow the VSU Communications Unit to add or change the stories in the rotation on the main VSU webpage, I ran into a problem that involved a known Safari issue involving file uploads.
I don’t regularly create forms that allow for an upload of a file, however I don’t like […]

PHP

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Recently I had to build a custom form for VSU’s implementation of R25 by CollegeNet.  The form was designed to allow individuals to schedule an event at VSU using our facilities and equipment.  The form is a multi-part form that branches off at the third page based on prior answers.
One of the hurdles in the […]

PHP

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So in the process of applying the new SSL cert here at work, I discovered an issue with the reCAPTCHA service.
The problem was that I was getting errors saying that my forms were only partially encrypted.  This was due to my use of the reCAPTCHA library, which by default doesn’t use an SSL connection to […]

PHP, Security, Web Apps

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I found this really cool moon photo at the AstroMeeting.
I love all the detail that he goes into about taking the photo.

Photography

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A nice post on Amazing Filtered Things shows a whole bunch of photos of nuclear blasts.

My favorite is the one with the observers in the foreground.

Photography

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Google Maps has a cool shot of an SR-71 Blackbird on the deck of the USS Intrepid at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.

Photography

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One of the standard methods of configuring Mac OS X in the enterprise has become known as the magic triangle or golden triangle. This is generally described as a setup involving Active Directory (AD) for authentication of the clients and services and Open Directory (OD) for managing the client preferences.  The triangle comes from the […]

Computers, Mac OS X, Mac OS X 10.5

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While re-loading the OS and apps on my iMac at work, I ran into major issues whilst updating MS Office 2008.  When running the first update, Office 2008 SP1 (12.1.0) I had no problems, however none of the other updates would run.  I kept getting the error “You cannot install Office 2008 Updates on this […]

Apple, Mac OS X, Software

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Lately I have noticed that when browsing the web my external hard drive would spin up when there seemed no need.  I had just given into the mysterious and not concerned myself with this until yesterday.
After a few searches, I turned up a post on Apple’s discussion boards entitled Safari pauses & spins up ext […]

Apple, Mac OS X

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For those of you who are into browser plugins, you may have run across a plugin called Inquisitor.  According to the website, Inquisitor: speeds up your searches like no other

While this may be true after several searches I determined that I wanted to go back to using the default Safari search plugin features instead.  Unlike the […]

Computers, Mac OS X

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Today I picked up one of the new dual-band AirPort Extreme base stations at Best Buy. The reason behind the purchase was so that I could use 802.11n for my iMac and Apple TV while using 802.11g for my iPhone, since this should give me the best wireless throughput for my shared files to […]

Mac OS X, networking

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My last two posts, Starting NRPE via launchd and Nagios NRPE on OS X Server 10.5, concerned getting NRPE to run on OS X Server 10.5 and having it startup at system boot.
However, this is only part of the battle.  Once you have Nagios monitoring setup on your server you also need to have some […]

Mac OS X Server, Nagios, Software

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Last week I posted on how to setup NRPE on Mac OS X Server.  Here is what you need to do to make it start up at system boot.
On a Linux or Solaris machine you can just include the call to the daemon in an init script like rc.local and it will be started when […]

Mac OS X Server, Nagios

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Recently I was tasked to install the Nagios add-on NRPE on two OS X 10.5 servers. I read a little on the ‘net about it, but no one actually had much in the way of a walkthrough, so I thought I would fill the void.

The basic steps involve compiling the NRPE source, but doing so involves […]

Mac OS X Server, Nagios

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Over the past several years I have begun to wonder if the trend towards all things new, online and electronic is really better than the non-electronic analog. There are many areas where the electronic version has eclipsed the original analog format, and others where the electronic version is making serious attempts to usurp the existing analog.

I […]

New Tech Series, Technology, arfore.com

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Many newspapers around the country have embraced what many people have referred to as the Information Age. The current era has also been referred to as the Connected Age:
The Information Age is the age of the knowledge worker. The Connected Age is the age of the web worker. Knowledge workers create and manage information, […]

New Tech Series

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