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A $229.95 Nearly-Fanless Router PC
Sometimes you need a machine to pass network traffic from one interface to another and fiddle with it. You may need to route traffic to your network, or inspect network traffic in a transparent...
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Killing Hung OSX VPN Connections
This thing is a menace: The endlessly scrolling disconnection state when OSX’s Network Connect VPN client goes sideways. You can’t reconnect because it just sits there trying to disconnect. You can’t...
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Have a Google TV? Love watching mkv files with it’s media player, but frustrated it can’t play files with DTS audio? ffmpeg to the rescue: ffmpeg -i "dts.mkv" -y -vcodec copy -copyts -acodec ac3 -ab...
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Being Burgled
I don’t ask for audience participation very often, but today I’d like you to do me a favor. The next time you’re home, walk around and take pictures of every room in your house with your cell phone....
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Meditations on Sleep
How you sleep is a secret. You can’t tell from walking next to someone on the street if they can drift off in seconds while the lights are on and the TV’s blaring, or if they need a sealed cocoon of...
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Developer Resources: Programming & Computer Science Books
One of the things those of us who don’t go through a traditional computer science program miss is a strong foundation in the hard science of computers. I don’t have a really strong algorithm,...
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