Hide Your Cables in Your Baseboards and Crown Molding [DIY]

From the clip pad files from 2008 & Life Hacker… A trick that I keep intending to do for cable management… Hide Your Cables in Your Baseboards and Crown Molding [DIY]: Hide your networking and television cables with WireTracks, a wire management solution that hides your messy cables behind crown molding and baseboards. The WireTracks […]

Hone Your Craft with Free Online Writing Courses [Writing]

From the clip pad files from 2008, and LifeHacker… Web learning site Education Portal points to 10 universities (and semi-universities) that offer free online writing courses. Covering everything from fiction and screenwriting to technical documentation, the offerings range from course notes and texts to full lecture videos. For anyone looking to get started in the […]

Why do I have multiple dashboardclients running?

At this point, all evidence points to this being a normal fact of life with Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard).  If you have more than 1 Dashboard widget, you will probably have more than one dashboardclient startup when you run Dashboard.  The ratio is probably not a 1:1 ratio, since Leopard is designed to […]

Laurell Hamilton\’s Vampire Hunter heads to TV

The Laurel K. Hamilton Anita Blake books maybe visiting TV land as SciFi Wire (or should that be SyFyWyre?) reports… The Independent Film Channel is teaming with Lionsgate for a TV movie based on the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is the network\’s first-ever feature-length production and could […]

Security? I don\’t need to be secure… Do I?

Why does your Information Technology team tell you not to turn on that Web server, or leave SSH turned on when your not using it?  Because they want you to be secure… Here\’s a perfect example… Mar 30 16:14:06 68 sshd[2933]: Did not receive identification string from 96.10.82.114 Mar 30 16:21:57 68 com.apple.SecurityServer[24]: checkpw() returned […]

What\’s this? \”Importer Start Failed for XXX.\”

I\’m not sure when this started, but I just noticed this in my log file, on NERV. 3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.launchd.peruser.506[40370]) getpwuid(\”506\”) failed  3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.launchd.peruser.506[40370]) PID 1104 \”lssave\” has no account to back it! Real/effective/saved UIDs: 506/506/506  3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.launchd.peruser.506[40370]) Exited with exit code: 1  3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] […]