Chris Farris

Seems Pretty Straight Forward: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install netatalk sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon Add: /huge/TimeMachine "TimeMachine" options:tm to /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default Create /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service with contents: <service-group><br /> <name replace-wildcards=”yes”>%h</name><br /> <service><br /> <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type><br /> <port>548</port><br /> </service><br /> <service><br /> <type>_device-info._tcp</type><br /> <port>0</port><br /> <txt-record>model=Xserve</txt-record><br /> </service><br /> </service-group> Restart everything: sudo service netatalk restart && sudo service avahi-daemon restart

Encrypt files for safety | Utilities | Macworld. Useful for your macbook pro.

So Read-it-later is a webs service that allows you to book mark articles to read later. The did an interesting analysis of what people read when and on what devices. Their results compare pretty much to my usage profile for the iPhone and iPad. The iPad is a couch consumption device. I use it for reading email, quick email replies, reading facebook, surfing the web, and as an e-reader. I don’t find it good for creating content out side of the most basic snark-attacks on someone’s wall.

“Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you’ll get ten different answers, but there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us. It’ll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…[and] all of this…all of this…was for nothing.

Useful guide to Mac troubleshooting. I wasn’t sure what the difference between the gray apple screen and the grey apple screen with the spinning gear. Mac 101: Whats happening when your Mac is starting up?.

The bandage was wound around the wound. The farm was used to produce produce. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. We must polish the Polish furniture. He could lead if he would get the lead out. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

I’m going to add this site to my blogroll. The author is one of VMWare’s R&D honchos. Interesting tid-bit on how to DOS Google if you’re so inclined. Some of the search queries can cause huge IO. One example Jeff gave is “circle of life” as one phase enclosed in double quotation marks. It could incur 30GB I/O before. As I just searched on Google, the phrase is now a song name.

I’ll admit, we use Netflix streaming and Netflix a lot. I just don’t see the NetFlix catalog as being big enough to encompass 20% of consumer bandwidth. Netflix streaming consumes 20pct of download throughput during weekday primetime hours via How Google TV Could Hand Netflix The Entire Streaming Universe | paidContent.

I find it fascinating what kind of electronic fingerprints are left by modern technology. From password guessing based on the intervals between packet transmission to detecting minute gaps in an analog conversation to determine a call originated in Nigeria and not New York. Voice-routing call fingerprint system fights ‘vishing’ • The Register.

Stephen Fleming, a former Venture Capitalist, who now handles commercialization of intellectual property for Georgia Tech, penned a good blog post on UGA’s expressed interest in creating an engineering program. Campus rivalry aside, Fleming makes the case that the money could be best spent elsewhere. More funding for K-12 Math and Science, expanding the Georgia Technical College System, or expanding the instructional facilities at Georgia Tech, would cost a fraction of the tens of millions of dollars it would cost to create an engineering program from scratch in Athens.