Shuttle Sighting

Rode up to Piermont and stood on the pier to see the shuttle go by today. One of the coolest things I have ever seen. Here’s a little video, sorry for the fall in the middle. Your browser does not … Continue reading

DVD Drive sharing to something other than Air or Mini

After enabling DVD sharing on the host OSX machine, run the blow on the client machine. Relaunch Finder. Enjoy DVDs on your busted ‘superdrive’. $ defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool true $ defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser ODSSupported -bool true

Kimmage and Landis

I got tired of all the cruft around the content when reading Kimmage’s interview of Landis. purple:Code cwt$ ./kimmage_landis.py > ~/just_wow.html This is the python snippet: #!/usr/bin/env python from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup from urllib2 import urlopen url = “http://nyvelocity.com/content/interviews/2011/landiskimmage” print … Continue reading

smsbegone

I recently had a spate of SMS alerts being sent by nagios to my iPhone. Trying to delete even a dozen SMS’s from the iPhone display is tedious and requires 3 steps for each one. I had been using this … Continue reading