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Netfixer 0.2 [124k] {S} Save webpages to PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP, and TIF  Screenshot

/mac | Jan 28, 2009

Tiny Letters #
"The World's Smallest Postal Service (WSPS) is a teeny tiny transcription service and roaming post office based in the San Francisco Bay Area and also available online."

/misc | Jan 25, 2009

iPhone vs. Palm Treo 750p #
FeatureiPhonePalm Treo 750p
Cut/Copy/PasteNoYes
System-wide find (within calendar items, etc)NoYes
TetheringNoYes
Replaceable batteryNoYes
KeyboardNoYes
Video recordingNoYes
Expansion slotNoYes
Must pay for the privilege of developing applications and then beg for inclusion in exclusive storeYesNo
Vendor maintains remote kill switch to keep users in lineYesNo
NetworkAT&TVerizon

/palm | Jan 25, 2009

Details, details, details #
  • Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle. -- Michelangelo
  • If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great Streetsweeper who did his job well. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- Angelique Arnauld

/misc | Jan 25, 2009

List of device bandwidths / data transfer speeds #
Wikipedia has an excellent list of device bandwidths. It would be nice to pair with a list of maximum distance / cable lengths, maybe something along the lines of:
Type Max Speed Unit Max distance / cable length Notes
Bluetooth wireless PAN (2.4 GHz band) 720 Kbps 10-100 meters Distance depends on device class: Class 1 - 10m, Class 2 - 50m, Class 3 - 100m
Fast Ethernet (100Base-T) 100 Mbps 100 meters  
FireWire 400 (IEEE 1394A) 400 Mbps 4.5 meters Up to 16 cables can be daisy chained using active repeaters
USB 3.0 5 Gbps 5 meters  

/misc | Jan 16, 2009

Opening and creating password-protected zip files in OS X #
As of 10.5, the Finder cannot open password-protected zip files. It simply returns the helpful message "Unable to unarchive 'filename' into 'Location'. (Error 1 - Operation not permitted)" as seen here:



You can, however, use the Terminal to both open and create encrypted zip files:

Unencrypt and extract: unzip secret.zip
Compress and encrypt: zip -re new.zip folder_of_secrets/

/mac | Jan 11, 2009

"A duplicate name exists on the network" error when attempting to change Computer Name #
After an HP NAS died, we repurposed a workstation as the new file server. Attempting to change the computer name to match the dead NAS, the following error kept appearing: "A duplicate name exists on the network", even though the NAS was not connected. We deleted all references to the NAS in Network Places and unmapped all drives to no avail. nbtstat -c returned no entries lurking in the NetBIOS cache. Finally, we disabled the workstation's NIC and were able to change the name without errors. Rebooted the workstation, enabled the NIC, and all was well.

/windows | Jan 09, 2009



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