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My Portable Photo Album System VS Facebook Photo Export

Turns out Facebook is finally offering a way to export their data into zip. With this feature out it competes directly with my Portable Photo Album System offering a Packaged file that comprises of video/photo/css/xml all into a zip. I … Continue reading

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Secure file transfer with resuming.

I recently came across an office internet feed that was unreliable. SCP has no resuming capability so I went looking around the net for an answer. The following command works with different ssh port. I couldn’t get the speed limit … Continue reading

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Enabling NTFS write in OSX

found this info from: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090913140023382 get the uuid from: diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name sudo vim /etc/fstab enter UUID=123-456-789 none ntfs rw replace the uuid with the one from the diskutil this will work with bootcamp’s partition only if you did not … Continue reading

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City TV in HD (aka CKVU-HD)

Vancouver get’s it’s 5th HD channel now. it shows up as 10.1 and according to Wikipedia, it went online earlier this month. I don’t watch this channel much but it’s still nice to finally see another channel go live. I … Continue reading

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Sharepoint/WSS3 with Active Directories

been beating around this problem until I finally found a solution on the net that worked. http://msmvps.com/blogs/obts/archive/2006/09/27/143831.aspx near the bottom there’s reference to setting the default provider and using the tag in the providers. that seemed to get things going … Continue reading

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working with Windows networks from Ubuntu

hostname resolution doesn’t get offered out of the box. you’ll need to apt-get install winbind and update /etc/nsswitch.conf to include “wins” in the “hosts” declaration. hosts: files dns wins after that you’re good to go. ping and use windows computernames … Continue reading

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Killing multiple processes through word matching

I needed to kill something running in ubuntu. saw many processes. the key programs used is ps, grep, and kill. kill -9 `ps -ef|grep -v “grep”|grep “somesearchstring”|awk ‘ { print $2 } ‘`

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USB RAM Adapter

Working on a new USB device. basically instead of a usb memory card reader/writer, it’s a usb RAM reader/writer. Why on earth would you want this? Well, basically for performance through  expanding your system’s available memory either by virtual memory … Continue reading

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Apple iPad. Who is it for?

Alot of buzz around iPad before and after it’s launch. Most of what I expected was there. Some missing features left me wondering why I would bother getting this. Some of the expected features (I thought) would have been: Webcam … Continue reading

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Cheap 3D effects are not the way to go.

A posting at wired got me worried. We’re starting to see alot of cheap 3D tricks to catch in on the rush. These half hearted attempts at giving 3D could undermine the entire effort in making 3D video a mainstream … Continue reading

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