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October 20, 2006
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Though only occasionally loquacious, I am quite megagaltastic.
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October 19, 2006
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October 18, 2006
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Profile of Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report.
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Tom Yager looks at the many changes in the new Xserves that make them better data center servers, almost completely user-serviceable, with built-in redundancies and just plain good design.
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October 17, 2006
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Yes, my Congresscritter, Cynthia McKinney, made the list.
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October 16, 2006
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Story about, and a few images by, Philippe Halsman, who traditionally ended his photo shoots by asking his subjects to jump for his camera. He captured the Ford family, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Martin and Lewis, and then-Vice President Richard M.
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October 14, 2006
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The ReadyNAS NV+ looks like a very nice home or workgroup server, with 4 hot-swap SATA drive bays, licenses for Retrospect Mac and PC, RAID 0, 1 or 5, and gigabit ethernet.
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Utility to use a monitor on a remote machine as an extra monitor (as when your PowerBook sits next to your desktop machine) via SSH.
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October 12, 2006
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Joel Spolsky reviews "Beyond Java," suggesting that explicit type declaration may be going the way of "GOTO" statements.
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George Lucas showed up in the finals of Stephen Colbert's "Green Screen Challenge," where viewers dropped a light saber-wielding Colbert into their own scenes. In three weeks, Colbert has featured Lucas, Steve Wozniak, and Randy Newman. Geeks take note.
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October 06, 2006
The perfect Mac mini case tool
I've upgraded my first-gen, low-end Mac mini to its full 1 gigabyte of RAM. It continues to capture TV programs, converting them to iPod format and streaming them to other machines on the home LAN, and to serve a few static web pages and images associated with my weblog (including my resume).
I was concerned about getting into the box. The mini literally snaps together, and all the online sources I've seen suggest you have to take great care to keep from damaging the tabs that snap the cover into place when opening the machine for upgrades.
The recommended tool around the web is a standard putty knife, and many sources suggest that you bevel one edge of the putty knife so you can more easily slide it between the bottom and top cases of the Mac mini.
When I went hunting around the tool shelf, I discovered that I have a wallpaper scraper that's essentially a 4 1/2" putty knife with a beveled edge. Having successfully upgraded the mini, I would suggest this is the perfect Mac mini open/close tool. It almost certainly came from Home Depot, and is labeled a Hyde Tools 33200.
The extra width means I was able to pop all 6 side tabs on either side or all 3 side tabs on the front at the same time. If I did this all day, I would use two at the same time. With just one, you have to open one side far enough that it won't slide back into place while you're prying open the other side.
It took three tries to get it back together right -- the trick is to get the back in place, then work the top on from back to front, until it snaps on the front tabs, good as new.
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