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Are We Becoming Children of the MagentAI?
Back in 1997, a commercial airline captain noticed his fellow pilots had a problem: they'd gotten so used to following the magenta flight path lines on their fancy new navigation screens that they were forgetting how to actually fly the…
An Open Letter to IT Vendors For 2012
2012 is nigh upon us and with the new year, I am throwing down a challenge to each and every IT vendor out there. 2011 was a brutal year of incidents, breaches, outages and FUD and the last thing anyone needs is a repeat performance.…
A Fully Operational OS X dbClone
The app can now backup/restore of local config, clone dropbox configs to a URL/file and also impersonate a captured Dropbox…
"Flatten" HTML Content (i.e strip tags) in Cocoa/Objective-C [UPDATED] [BUG-FIX]
One of my most popular blog posts — 24,000 reads — in the old, co-mingled site was a short snippet on how to strip HTML tags from a block of content in Objective-C. It's been used by many-an-iOS developer (which was the original…
Remote Assistance/Information Gathering Aid - SupportDetails
I'm putting together a computer & online safety presentation for an upcoming talk at a senior center in Portsmouth (NH) and came across Support Details in my information hunting trek. This site makes it dirt simple to get basic information…
Never A Better Time To Baseline
If you're preparing to install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 , now would be a good time to give Microsoft's Attack Surface Analyzer a spin. ASA takes a baseline snapshot of your system state and then lets you take…
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-09
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-09 — rud.is blog archive
'Spaces' for Windows
I've been setting up a relatively new 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine and decided to see if the virtual desktops landscape had changed much in the recent past. It's amazing that with all of the feature duplication between OS X, nix (esp…