January 2011
6 posts
Microsoft SkyDrive
It’s 2011. And I’m using Office 2011 for the Mac.
Why doesn’t Microsoft support some sort of Azure-powered or otherwise cloud-based storage support for Office so that I have access to all my documents everywhere without being a geek who knows how to set up FUSE and a WebDAV server (or, pay for MobileMe and use iDisk, lol)?
Actually, I asked myself this, because it’s not...
sewage and cold
So this past saturday, my brother texts me at 6:30am:
“Hey dude, the boiler room is flooded with sewage”
There was a blockage somewhere in our sewer line, and the results manifested themselves in the form of a 1” layer of poop and toilet paper stew on our boiler room floor. His bathroom (he lives in the renovated basement directly below, on the same level as the boiler) was an...
usb serial adapters in osx
before i forget: ls /dev/tty.*
screen attach to them like you do in linux:
to screen attach to a usb serial device with baud 19200:
screen /dev/tty.usbdevice 19200
prolific pl-2303 drivers are here:
MacOS X Drivers
Routing table modification golden rule
Alright so, just to remind myself, hard, remember to just add a /32 route to test first from a test client before adding a whole /n<29 rule in there. This is a golden rule, up there with “FQDN!!!!!!!! Where it matters” and “always add a reverse dns entry you bastards!!!”
An efficient life
You know you’re a geek beyond all hope of redemption when you see the chaos in your wardrobe, trash, and other workflow bits of your life, and see it with much more clarity and approachability as a computational problem than a mundane task.
As the latter, the problem is impossible. The former gets my saiyan blood boiling and motivated to boot.
SNIPs and MIPs
Use MIPs by default, SNIPs if you’re directly attached to a local net.