The price-gouging premiums of Time Warner Cable\’s data caps: Time Warner Cable, stung by online criticism of its paltry traffic caps (in tests, these have ranged form 5GB/month to 40GB/month) and ludicrous pricing schemes, has taken to the \’Net to defend its sullied honor. But it\’s hard to defend a scheme with fees so high […]
People don\’t seem to understand, but computers aren\’t just a toaster. Windows systems are so complex, because of Microsoft\’s design, and desire to be the end-all provider for everything… Sometimes you have to take a step back, and have someone show you that you can do it differently. Here\’s a good example: Blog of helios: […]
MacHomeworld. A site that is dedicated to playing the Homeworld series of games on the Macintosh. Â The site includes the Mac port of the original Homeworld, as well as the Raider Retreat supplement. Â Details on Cataclysm, and links to the HomeWorld 2 commercial port. By the way, HW2 was extremely good… Â A tad bit difficult […]
The Beyond the Red Line demo is a stand-alone conversion of Freespace 2. A test run; an experimental release; you know, just a demo. Is this all free and stuff? Yes, and it\’s a two-part ordeal. Once upon a time, the Beyond the Red Line development team had a demo phase that established many things. Those established things evolved, and […]
An Online, .htaccess editor, that will walk you through Q&A style, to create the .htaccess file that you need for your web server… It includes Basic Authentication, Error Pages, Default Pages, WWW configuration, Redirects, and standard Access restrictions… Click to start on your .htaccess File.
A recent wave of admiration for new 3D-flavoured CAPTCHAs got me thinking about CAPTCHAs. The whole model just doesn\’t hold up to technological or economic scrutiny. CAPTCHAs are doomed, because of three important \”CAPTCHA gotchas\”. The CAPTCHA idea sounds simple: prevent bots from massively abusing a website (e.g. to get many email or social network […]
A relatively easy way to get a Mac address… On an unknown device without having physical access to the computer or device. The only caveat is that the device must be on the local network, if it is not on the same subnet, you will not be able to get the MAC address of the […]
Do you really need to defragment your hard drive with modern versions of Mac OS X (eg. 10.4 / 10.5)? The answer really, in most cases, is no.  A simple reboot or logout / login may solve the problem with very little effort. Apple has even written a tech note, specifically on this topic, see […]