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The Birth and Rise of Ethernet: A History – Input Output
The Birth and Rise of Ethernet: A History – Input Output: Nowadays, we take Ethernet for granted. We plug a cable jack in the wall or into a switch and we get the network. What’s to think about? But it didn’t start that way. In the 60s and 70s, networks were ad hoc hodgepodges of…
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Searching the Internet B.G. (Before Google) – Input Output
Searching the Internet B.G. (Before Google) – Input Output: The first major search advance was Archie, which beginning in 1990 made it possible to search through a site’s file directories. Archie was painful to use, but compared to what we had been dealing with, it was wonderful. Archie was quickly followed by the University of Nevada…
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The History of the Floppy Disk – Input Output
The History of the Floppy Disk – Input Output: George Sollman, another Shugart engineer, took an early model of the 5.25” drive to a Home Brew Computer Club meeting. “The following Wednesday or so, Don came to my office and said, ‘There’s a bum in the lobby,’” Sollman says. “‘And, in marketing, you’re in charge of cleaning…
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How to Run Mac OS X Inside Windows Using VirtualBox
How to Run Mac OS X Inside Windows Using VirtualBox: Maybe you’d like to test drive OS X before switching to a Mac or building a Hackintosh, or maybe you just want to run that one killer OS X app on your Windows machine. Whatever your reason, you can actually install and run OS X on any Intel-based…
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NASA – Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012
NASA – Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012: Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, has died. He was 82. (Via www.nasa.gov)
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Preview Fonts with One Click in the OS X Font Window [Mac Tips]
Preview Fonts with One Click in the OS X Font Window [Mac Tips]: Most OS X apps have a small “Fonts” window that pops up if you want to change your font’s options, but by default, it doesn’t show you what each font actually looks like. Here’s how to show a preview of every font with one…
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Ghosts in the ROM » NYC Resistor
Ghosts in the ROM » NYC Resistor: While digging through dumps generated from the Apple Mac SE ROM images we noticed that there was a large amount of non-code, non-audio data. Adam Mayer tested different stride widths and found that at 67 bytes (536 pixels across) there appeared to be some sort of image data…
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View more export options in Preview
View more export options in Preview: Preview in 10.8 has removed a number of export options. If you choose File > Export, there are only six options in the Format popup menu, compared to 13 in the Lion version of the application. Alas, this is yet another feature that has more options hidden behind an…
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Copying large number of files between two Unix/Linux/OSX Servers
Here are some quick tip(s) for copying a ton of files between unixy machines really fast. You’re probably thinking “why not use rsync?”…..well rsync can be miserably slow if your source or destination cpu is underpowered. You can always do a rsync after these commands to make 100% certain that everything checks out, but try…
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Flush DNS cache in Lion and Mountain Lion
Flush DNS cache in Lion and Mountain Lion: To flush the DNS cache in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, run this command in Terminal: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache To do the same in 10.7 and 10.8, run this command: sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder (Via MacOSXHints.com)
