The GeekDad blog once again makes another of their famous Top Ten lists…., This time it is Passing the Phaser: 10 Tips for Turning Geeklets into Trekkies. Don\’t expect a serious list with this one, but it is quite funny in it\’s own rights… Go ahead, and take a look. Just remember…. KHAAAANNN!!! I wonder […]
Well, it\’s happening…. Sci Fi Wire has posted a few videos with the new SyFy promos from the rebranding/rebranded SciFi channel. To me, they are less than inspiring… What are your feelings about it? I still believe that this is a mistake for SciFi… – Benjamin
Have you ever wanted to quickly switch from High Performance to Power Saver mode to save some battery life? With a quick command line in a shortcut, you can do it with a keystroke. Here\’s a quick-and-dirty method to create a shortcut for switching between Windows power management plans—and once you have the command line, […]
Typically Mac OS X is configured to set the default printer to the last printer you just used… Â But that\’s not always correct… In some cases, people with laptops have attempted to use a printer that isn\’t available, and that has caused the laptop\’s fan to run constantly, since Mac OS X is attempting to […]
Here is some information from Tim Vasquez, regarding Air France 447… Air France flight 447 (AF447), an Airbus A330 widebody jet, was reported missing in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of June 1, 2009. The plane was enroute from Rio de Janeiro (SBGL) to Paris (LFPG). Speculation suggested that the plane […]
Folks, One Major issue that I have with Time Machine, is that the OS does not warn you (reliably) if you go too long between backups. Here\’s a python script that can do so… Â It\’s primarily designed for attached (usb/firewire) storage, but I have added support for Time Capsule style backups… Â When run, the script […]
If you\’ve ever wanted to remotely reboot a Windows box from your machine, the following tip can be useful… Any Macintosh OS X system can reboot a windows machine, assuming that you know the credentials of an Administrative Account on the Windows system. Â Open the Terminal and use the following command line: net rpc shutdown […]
Apple includes as part of the Printer Libraries, a small conversion utility. Â I presume it is used to help convert certain formats to either PDF or Postscript internally… Â But here\’s some fun we can have with it. For example, let\’s say we have a file called \”my.html\”, but using this command line: /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f my.html […]