EGOPOLY

Topics include: programming, Apple, Unix, gadgets, large-scale web sites and other nerdy stuff.

2007

2007/12

Larry and Me. And Scoble.
Note to Self: batch image processing
How to get OpenVPN to work on Vista
OMFG, Google/Apple fanboy happy happy joy joy
Deutsche Grammophon and Web Customer Service

2007/11

Notes on building a Hackintosh
NTS: the long search for a good, cheap NAS
Greatest Video of all Time
Using Sprint Novatel U727 Wireless Card on Leopard
Why you should never use Javascript alerts, except for debugging

2007/10

How to scroll compiler output in Emacs
How to install tomcat mod_jk on Mac OS X Leopard
Notes on Upgrading to Leopard
JWZ is the king
NTS - TEA - Tiny Encryption Algorithm
RRDtool installation on CentOS 5.
A Good Explanation of fields in mod_status apache output

2007/09

Greatest and Worst Programmer of All Time Recursion
Good free wireless at Fairmont, San Jose
Amazon MP3 store is good.
How to lock your Mac with firmware password
The Joys of Sony Computers
Very cool Apple MacBook theft recovery system

2007/08

iPhone hacking software getting more mainstream.
NTS: good summary of iPhone web programming
Electricity Monitor
NTS: maybe turn on greylisting
CVS checkout aborted errors and Google Desktop for Mac

2007/07

Note to self: Mac -> Ubuntu migration
Amazon Unbox on Tivo is Bullshit
How to Debug your web site on Safari
How to enable Apple Remote Desktop remotely
I just bought some books with my iPhone
How to type a period on the iPhone
How to average a series of numbers in a shell script
Facebook poll: which phone is better?
Facebook as a Walled Garden
iPhone Fever

2007/06

6pm? PDT!!! WTF! Major buzz kill.
I have iPhone on the brain.
Moving an RRDtool installation to a 64-bit machine
iPhone plan pricing is the real story
Wild iPhone Speculation

2007/05

iTunes Store is getting buried
Note to self: cheap web analytics
An experiment in delusional SEO.
Parallel ANT Build Tool.
Note to self: rapid deployment of Window XP
The GMail feature I want
Note to self: zsync
Microsoft buys Yahoo: clever or stupid?
Remote Access to Servers: Sun vs. Dell
Gruber on iPhone pricing

2007/04

Note to self: how to replace MacBook Pro Hard Disk
Note to self: Ubuntu performance tweaks
My big "Duh!" moment in FireFox
If you change /etc/exports on Mac OS X...
Cruft that builds up on blogs
Paul Graham on Microsoft.
FireBug is the best plugin ever
Goodbye Spotlight... and good riddance.

2007/03

Weird problems with SSH tunnelling of X11
Tiny Book Review: "Building Scalable Web Sites"

2007/02

note to self: speed up wordpress
Determine the size of Java objects at runtime.
Funny Jobs vs Gates Cartoon
Let's Search on the Googe
The Next Big Language
Reality Clarification Field
How to install a private mail server certificate on Mac OS X

2007/01

The sea change in the music business.
Another cool physics/flash game, stick remover.
A tool for quickly checking analytics packages
How to set connect time out on Java sockets
How to get PHP 5 working with MySQL 5 on CentOS 4.x
Tutorial on making an emacs major mode.
Apple might have a case vs. Cisco?
Speculation on the future iPod
The Google releasing user-space file system for Mac
How to disable Ruby "Insecure world writable dir" warnings
Note to self: check for OpenOffice Aqua every month.
More Apple iPhone Questions
Handy URL encoder/decoder
Apple iPhone looks very cool, but...
OS X Theme for Ubuntu
How to find out what process is using a disk on Mac OS X.
Note to self: web page weight optimizer.