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Actually the move to Yosemite has gone pretty well for me. We’ve dodged some of the bugs I’ve heard about (Wifi connection) and it is definitely faster on small machines because the 3D effects are less. The only thing I’ve seen is a strong losing of SMTP passwords. In terms…

But it sure is interesting to learn about all the tools that are out there thanks to various contests online including: Disassembler which let’s you know what’s in a binary. SWI Prolog. Many of these problems need a constraint solver. If you can believe it, people are still using Prolog to…

So what’s the best way to bring up a Ghost site on Digital Ocean and then have another site which is the test one. There is some support for a development version and a production site in a separate place. I tried the instructions in Digital Ocean but this didn’t…

Wow this is a great thing for those of us who want to save a few things by using the Monoprice store on Rakuten. Rakuten has some good discounts (right now they are running a site-wide 10% off) and they also have a point system (1% rebate). Combine that with…

Well with the market changing so quickly, our top choices of just two months ago (the the ASUS PB-27Q and the Benq 3200PT remain. The big problem is that the ultra nice Benq 3200PT has shot up in price from a decent $620 up to $750, so is pretty out…

Well since we are all on Mac Mail, here are some typical issues and problems. Normally the thing works fine, but there is something strange with how it stores things and sometimes it forgets the SMTP password. Here are some of the tricks: You want to run IMAP and SMTP…

Ok, doing the final purchase analysis as usual, the process was: Initial price on Amazon Check price on Newegg Check similar prices through rewards portals (BoA) to Rakutan, Overstock as these guys have better prices usually. See what the rebates are on with cashbackmonitor.com and what coupons are with slick…

Ok, nothing like learning a new stack everyday. It sure feels like I do that these days. This one is digitalocean.com running node.js, running the ghost blogging platform using handlebar for templating and bootstrap for the front end. What fun! Here are some tips: Digitalocean’s one click install really works.…