Out of Control®

Before the holidays I started to use Apple’s Aperture photo management software. Mainly because my new camera lets me shoot in Raw, and I also wanted more control over editing and organizing all my photos. The following bugged me for awhile, so I am posting it here as a reminder to myself:
How to bulk remove [...]

This morning when I got to my Apple Mac Pro, I saw that VMWare Fusion, which had been running Window XP, was stuck at Shutting Down Windows. Presumably Windows decided to do an upgrade during the night and got stuck when it tried to reboot.
Going to the menu ‘Virtual Machine->Shut Down Guest’ didn’t do anything. [...]

Computerworld is running a story on a significant security hole in Flash.
The long and short of it all is that a security hole in Flash is in the wild, and is unpatchable according to Adobe.
Mike Murray, the chief information security officer at Orlando, Fla.-based Foreground Security says ”The best mitigation is to not use Flash, but [...]

My business is selling its Toshiba eStudio 810
Working in good condition. eStudio 810 digital copier / printer, Black and White.
Included:

New toner cartridge.
Bulk paper feeder (5000 sheets)
3 paper trays (programmable)
Inserter
Hole punch
Stitching unit
Collator
Scanning board (scan direct to PDF / email / or local box)
GA1120 Adobe postscript board with onboard harddrive

This printer will print 81 pages per minute. [...]

Updated Ping List: October 21st 2009
This is a quick hack and a ping server list. The hack is to allow ping servers that require a port number that has more than 4 digits (i.e. icerocket.com requires port 10800). The list is mostly from this post, and has been edited due to a couple of bad [...]

[Updated: 2009/09/25 1:45pm]
Just to clarify before you start reading, I love Apple and their computers, and this is one of the first times I have experienced such poor service. I did call customer support, twice, and they apparently had no other solution for me. The following is what I sent to Apple, based on my [...]

You most likely know who Alan Turing is, but did you know that wartime code-breaker Alan Turing was chemically castrated for admitting to his homosexuality and then mostly written out of history. Now, more than 26,000 people have signed a petition to the prime minister seeking a formal apology and posthumous pardon. Unfortunately the British [...]

At a clients request I went about finding if there was a way to get Adobe Contribute to work with Expression Engine. As Contribute does use the Metaweblog API, it seemed that it should work. All my searching on Google though, led to dead end posts from people that didn't find a way to make [...]

A friend asked me to help him find all the out links from his Word Press blog. I came up with a little script to simply list all the WordPress entries and the URL's they contain. Thought others would like it too. It is not a WordPress plugin, and is simply provided as is to [...]

If you are interested in cryptography or codebreaking, and have an interest in World War II, then you should try to get to Bletchley Park. I haven't been... yet. It is on my list of things to achieve. There is an excellent blog post that highlights what it was like for the women of Bletchley [...]