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Leopard Hackintosh

ryan — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:21:56 -0700

Here's how I got OSX working with an Intel D975BX2X2 and Nvidia video card.

Social Networking outside of one site

ryan — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:28:19 -0700

OK so there's no question that social networking is a huge deal. Recently, while setting up my own personal blog and joining Facebook, I thought hey, why not, instead of having to be "inside" a site, just link individual blogs with each other much like profiles inside Facebook?

Hold a Meeting

ryan — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:17:06 -0600

email archiving in the bush white house

caleb — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:20:19 -0600

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost-e-mails.ars

Interesting and somewhat disturbing read, especially as this is something I deal with daily....

Making themes for Drupal 6.x

wax — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:34:02 -0600

heyas...

ryness has piqued my interest with his in drupal and so i have installed 6.1 on shapah.com/net and have been playing with it some, most specifically attempting to learn something about creating themes, as drupal is specific version to version, meaning any mods/themes made for version 4.x only work with 4.x and not 5.x and so forth.

Minefield (aka Firefox 3 Beta Nightly Build)

ryan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:49:13 -0600

I suppose I'm a glutton for punishment because for the last few weeks I've been running the Firefox 3 beta (v5). Under heavy load it was quite unstable (6+ tabs including Gmail, Gcal, etc). So I started using the *nightly snapshots* (aka Minefield), which for potentially explosive software is much more stable than b5.

BTW, the improved look and performance of v3, even in beta form, make it obvious this is going to be a significant upgrade for Firefox.

Online TV made Easy

ryan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:00:32 -0600

For those of us without cable TV but who still want to watch great media on the Internet, there's a great tool I've found. It's called Modern Feed. Instead of using Google or whatever to seek out the various shows, or worse yet trying to maintain bookmarks of all the sites that publish their shows online, this one corrals them all in to one place.

Gmail Skin

ryan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:05:46 -0600

I love Gmail and this morning came across this skin for it that makes it look really slick: http://userstyles.org/styles/5867

UI Design for Devices

ryan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:09:49 -0600

Ever since the web came along UI designers have had to change their tact from the desktop to the browser. Now the browsers are going onto every imaginable device. Websites are having to either produce many versions of themselves depending on the client, or produce one dumb-downed version that works on them all.

Here's a good article that discusses UI design issues for the devices of today and tomorrow: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_beyond_the_desktop/

Google DNS Poisoned?

ryan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:55:32 -0600

Google sites aren't coming up for me. Here's what I get after doing a whois:

disk encryption broken

caleb — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:21:00 -0600

Something I definitely hadn't thought of...

http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/

do any of you actually use full-disk encryption?

Desktop Wallpaper Sites

ryan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:50:59 -0700

I'm always in the market for good desktop wallpapers. Here are a couple sites I use to get 'em:

http://caedes.net

http://socwall.com

Anyone else have any other sites they like for wallpapers?

Free IT Supporters Toolkit

ryan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:33:54 -0600

Here's a good list of software for your geek toolbelt:http://www.runpcrun.com/free_IT_support_engineers_toolkit

Anything you use that is missing?

Best Places to Watch Documentaries Online

ryan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:37:12 -0600

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-places-to-watch-documentary-movies...

The Queen Mother of Stupid IT questions

bret — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:10:43 -0600

This is an actual "question" from a staff. Name withheld to protect the retarded.

"Hi, when you were on vacation, I went to type my password and it didn't work. Then, I typed it in again and it worked that time. Will you fix this ASAP PLEASE"

official iphone tool

ryan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:29:56 -0600

I can't decide if this is an example of how dumb Apple users are, or how dumb Apple thinks its users are: Official iPhone Tool.

Your New Desk

ryan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:47:16 -0700

Someone commissioned the building a "very unique space theme" desk and this is what they got:

Gmail Shortcuts Cheatsheet

ryan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:40:59 -0700

Here's a handy cheatsheet to help you get the most out of Gmail!: http://r.evhead.com/hodgepodge/gmail-shortcuts.html

I heart VMWare

ryan — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:40:12 -0600

In a remote office I had a RAID5 collapse. The OS was Dapper Linux running VMWare server. On it was a VM of a Win2K3 file/print server.

AKGeeks.net

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:48:51 -0700