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Well, I’m going through old photos that have been scanned or otherwise digitized, so there is nothing to tell you when (I can usually guess where). So sometimes it is nice to know when it snowed in Seattle say 10 years ago. How do you do that? Well NOAA has…

I put my dearly loved All Clad no stock 8″ pan into the oven to heat and ruined the coating (no to self never over heat the pan or put in the oven ever!). It’s my second $90 pan I’ve torqued in five years. In looking at Cook’s Illustrated. They…

At least for nerds. We looked at building a quadracopter, but at $500 for the kit plus $400 for a RC controller (?!!), it does seem a little expensive. Still for $1500, you can get a drone which flies for 15 minutes, gives you a first person view through a…

Someone was asking me, so what would you get if you wantd to just read a book. It’s an interesting question as there are so many units to choose from. The big three are of course Apple, Kindle or some Android thing (Samsung). But there are so many models. Toptenreviews.com…

While RedHat (and its derivatives like CentOS) have lots of packages that you can install, not everything is there. Repoforge seems like the other big source of packages. Here is how to get your CentOS to know that repository: AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge – CentOS Wiki Download the rpmforge-release package. Choose one of…

Find your IP Address on a Mac You can find your IP address from the Mac System Preferences: From the Apple menu pull down “System Preferences” Click on the “Network” preference pane Your IP address will be visible to the right Find your IP Address on a Mac Launch the…

Mac OS X: find the program running on a port « databasically // Kansas City Small Business IT && Ruby on Rails Programming   Sometimes, there’s a program running on a port and you don’t know what it is. How do you find out? I find this happens when I…

Mac OS X: find the program running on a port « databasically // Kansas City Small Business IT && Ruby on Rails Programming   Sometimes, there’s a program running on a port and you don’t know what it is. How do you find out? I find this happens when I…

Somehow, there is a curious fact that sometimes with Get Info or Disk Utility, you see that you are almost out of disk, but when you go to the Finder, it looks likes things are fine. What is going on? Apple has a new feature with Time Machine Backups where…

Seems like everyone is doing reading on electronics now. So the question is what is the best reader. In looking at reviews, for general purpose tablets, it does look like the ipad mini is a great form factor. The main issue is that the ipad mini 2 is coming out…