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appreciations: kitchen and cleanliness
I appreciate that, at least for the moment, I have use of a kitchen and a shower and a reasonably clean environment in which to enjoy both.
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overpriced test gear and excessive respect for the fears of others
In a world where only the legacy network link signals its bits at 100Mbps and where high end laptops lose their wifi link in the presence of a USB3 video capture device, companies are still selling sub-100MHz oscilloscopes for about $850.
Keysight DSOX102G 70MHz (upgradable to 100MHz): $847
(video) review of 2017 MacBook Pro Retina showing WiFi ( Read more... ) -
tech: how I lost 8GB of apps, maps, photos, video and audio to a funky cardreader
tl;dr: My attempt at copying content from an 8GB µSD card to a 32GB µSD card for my phone was totally flummoxed by a generic card reader which doesn't work with OSX 10.6 and doesn't work with Windows 8.1. Just plugging it in scrambled the filesystem.
The first app I chose to pick through the wreckage did not work.
app photorec fails to pick ( Read more... ) -
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Some time ago I bought a big chunk of ham. I like ham. I cut it into some chunks that went in the freezer and a few more that went in the fridge, putting those in a glass bowl with a rubbery lid ( Read more... ) -
LJ follows OK-C in becoming uninteresting
I noted some time ago that OK-Cupid had become less entertaining. They had at the time stripped out the journal tab and removed links to the forum: people could no longer express themselves freely, showing their personality in more depth or in the context of an ongoing discussion. The activity feed had become just a list of people who had ( Read more... ) -
closing tabs and taking notes: OSX, AppleRAID, TB SSDs, scanning, VoIP, Kondo
OSX source is open
Cool: the source code for OSX is available online at opensource.apple.com:
10.6.2 10.6.8 more.
(found while searching for AppleRAID)
OSX used to handle mirroring and striping nicely"RAID 10 is a supported RAID level available in Disk Utility up to OS X Yosemite. With the release of OS X El Capitan, Apple removed direct support ( Read more... ) -
tech: android's linux oom process killer is out of control
Updates suck ( Read more... ) -
tech: followup on MacBook Air tuning
I took steps recently to give this borrowed MacBook Air more storage headroom so Chrome and Mail wouldn't fill the disk by allocating virtual memory. That, it turns out, was helpful but Chrome can still overtax this hardware ( Read more... ) -
ongoing FAIL with a few bright spots.
More FAIL: time management, today ( Read more... )
