Ramblings & ephemera
From Adam Engst’s “Slim down your PDFs” (Macworld: 5 November 2008):
Though few people realize this, you can reduce the size of PDF files using the Leopard version of Preview. To shrink a PDF file, open it in Preview, choose Save As from the File menu, and, in the Save dialog box, choose Reduce File Size [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Paul J. Zak’s “How to Run a Con” (Psychology Today: 13 November 2008):
When I was in high school, I took a job at an ARCO gas station on the outskirts of Santa Barbara, California. At the time, I drove a 1967 Mustang hotrod and thought I might pick up some tips and cheap parts [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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You can use the watch command, but it unfortunately isn’t available for Mac OS X. At least, from Apple. Sveinbjorn Thordarson (great name!) has a version of watch that you can download and compile on your OS X box. It’s available at http://www.sveinbjorn.org/watch_macosx.
Or, you can use this shell script:
while true ; do foo ; sleep [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Windows
ipconfig /flushdns
Mac OS X
dscacheutil -fluchcache
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Plaxo
http://www.plaxo.com
(web-based)
OggSync
http://oggsync.com
ScheduleWorld
http://www.scheduleworld.com
iCal4OL
http://ical.gutentag.ch
Google Calendar Sync
https://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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ImageMagick
mogrify -strip *.jpg
JHead
jhead -de *.jpg
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Holt Sorenson’s “Incident Response Tools For Unix, Part Two: File-System Tools” (SecurityFocus: 17 October 2003):
Various commands change the MAC [modify, access, and change] times in different ways. The table below shows the effects that some common commands have on MAC times. These tables were created on Debian 3.0 using an ext2 file system contained [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Two methods:
about:config
Change browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true
browser.tabs.loadInBackground should already be set to true
user.js
// open diverted links in background tabs
user_pref(”browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground”, true);
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Posted on December 24th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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Start | Settings | Control Panel | System
Under Registered to, you’ll see user name & a 20-digit number. Digits 6 through 15 make up the CD key.
If you’re using an OEM version, the entire number is the CD key.
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Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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I upgraded my Ubuntu Linux desktop today from Dapper to Edgy. It appears that in /etc/fstab, LABEL= no longer works, and you must now use UUID=.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278652
So my fstab now looks like this, for instance (these are all external drives):
UUID=a3d8a126-a7fc-4994-9675-748ed62c3109 /media/music xfs [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Spare me the details (The Economist: 28 October 2004):
LISA HOOK, an executive at AOL, one of the biggest providers of traditional (“dial-upâ€Â) internet access, has learned amazing things by listening in on the calls to AOL’s help desk. Usually, the problem is that users cannot get online. The help desk’s first question is: “Do [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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