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Author Archives: johannes
Get your terminal fix on OS X
When I first tried Linux, it was back quite a few years ago and at that time, most people who were developing software was running Windows. I was testing a Red Hat distro on a spare box which was a … Continue reading
Twitter’s new feature was not requested by their users
Twitter’s latest addition to its feature list is its ability to censor tweets that run afoul of a country’s restrictions on speech. Why is this being touted as a feature? To answer this question, one must look at the wider … Continue reading
Posted in Observation, Opinion, social, Technology
Tagged network, opinion, private, public, social, twitter
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WordPress header annoyances
I have used WordPress for quite a long time (since version 1.5) and it has been an excellent blogging software. However, I have only now started to use it for a Content Management System for a website with a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Software
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Installing Maxwell Render for Google Sketchup on Mac OS X
Yesterday, I was inspired to try to install an interesting plugin for Google Sketchup (partly because it is free) called Maxwell Render. The company that produces the plugin is also currently running a competition if you’re interested in entering. So … Continue reading
Don’t update your Apache through Webmin
This morning while logged on inside the webmin interface, I saw that there were 10 packages to update. Without much thought, I just hit the “update packages” button and it went on its merry way. Unfortunately, the consequence was not … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Web development
Tagged apache, broken, hardware, Linux, modules, open source, php5, ubuntu
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Getting the GoFlex Home to play nice with OS X Lion
Recently I acquired a Macbook Air Mid 2011 model and I wanted to find a good backup regime. Since OS X has had a great backup software called Time Machine, which has been around since OS X 10.5 Leopard, I … Continue reading
Posted in apple, Hardware, OS X, storage
Tagged GoFlex backup mac osx lion hardware storage nas timemachine
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The new MacBook Air and the dongle debacle
For my day to day travel, I often take a 3G dongle as my own personal internet connection which does not get monitored, filtered and restricted, unlike the wifi connections available at the places that I am currently working. I … Continue reading
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Why I got an Acer Iconia tablet
For quite a while now, I have been taking my trusty Macbook Pro everywhere I could. I always felt that there might be a time when I would need to pull my Macbook Pro out of my STM backpack in … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Hardware, tablet, Technology
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Connecting Android Tablet to the TAFE wireless network
Well, I must say that working with an Android tablet poses a lot of challenges. Firstly, to get my tablet to connect to the corporate Wifi network at a TAFE college was a serious challenge for my sanity. For the … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Opinion, tablet, Technology
Tagged add-on, Android, authentication, connection, firefox, mozilla, public, tafe, wifi
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