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Continue reading â: Overseas roaming
Just a reminder about how to minimize your roaming costs when you are overseas: If you are on Verizon: Sign up for the $25 for 100MB international data plan. Works in most European countries (and China) When you call, use Skype to call the US using the international data. Way…
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Continue reading â: Macbook mid 2009 and Macbook Pro mid 2010
Been using and playing with virtual machines a lot and it is pretty clear, you benefit from having an SSD and more memory. While the latest macbooks are faster, etc., even a five year old machine still work great. I’m amazed at the quality of the keyboard and the cases…
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Continue reading â: SFTP access to bluehost
Bluehost has been good to me, even though expensive at $10/month (can’t believe that is expensive), the only limitation is that it is pretty insecure to use FTP and they don’t like large files (greater than 1GB), so it isn’t the perfect server for everything. And they only allow the…
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Continue reading â: Mailman…message has implicit destination…
We are using Mailman for simple lists. And got this peculiar errot What does “message has implicit destination” mean? – Documentation – Confluence 2) The message was BCC’ed (blind carbon copied) to the list, and was actually not addressed to the list directly (not that you can see). If you’re…
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Mac mini will not USB install mountain lion
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Continue reading â: Mac mini will not USB install mountain lionWell one of our trusty Mac mini suddenly wouldn’t boot. One of the problems with doing a time capsule system restore is that u restore the bugs too. In this case it seemed like a disk corruption. Rather than fix and limp along decided a clean install was the right…
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Continue reading â: Amazon Gift Cards
Been trying to figure out what to get folks for their birthdays, etc. The default choice is of course an Amazon Gift Cards, but you can do better than that. I usually check Wirecutter for instance as a place to find geek gifts.
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Continue reading â: Backpacking Water Filter
Well, I have nearly everything, but our little pen thing broke (which purifies water), so back to the drawing board for something. It is a confusing topic but outdoorgearlab.com has some good advice. There are three kinds of systems: filter, chemical and UV. The net is that a filter doesn’t…
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Continue reading â: Washington Boating license
Nearly everyone needs one now, so here’s the free exam and then you mail a form in and $10 and get your certificate.
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Continue reading â: Command line installation scripts
If you ever need to use a script to remotely copy, mount a dmg and then run a package, here is how to do it Installing packages from the command line – Mac OS X Hints I sometimes need to install updates remotely on a server I maintain. I already…
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Continue reading â: Farmed salmon…not!
Yuck! But the Monterey Bay Aquarium has been hard at work on the exact place where you buy salmon. In summary, if you care about salmon, you literally can’t order salmon without asking lots of questions, but here is a the best choice list: Tank farmed salmon in the US…