• Mac OS X,  personal

    Keep iTunes in Sync

    June 4, 2009

    I’d still like to have a better way to have a centralized iTunes media server.  But in lieu of that I’m OK keeping multiple libraries in sync.  One way to do this is to use a tool such as rsync to actually synchronize the files.  But this isn’t going to keep the iTunes library updated on what files were added.  For that consider TuneRanger. TuneRanger will keep iTunes for Windows or Mac in sync. More importantly it will update your playlists to accommodate for the new location of your media. TuneRanger also makes a nice addition to the switchers toolbelt.  You can use it to synchronize media from a Windows…

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  • personal

    Fun with Google Maps

    April 28, 2009

    Open up Google Maps and search for 8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA. This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen on Google Maps. There was an old picture of the 318 offices, which showed me going over the fence one day when I locked my keys in the office that I thought was funny (because it was me mostly), but this is way better – and it got me to thinking about what else people have come across that Google has captured in action. Another that my wife mentioned to me is Liam Gallagher, frontman from Oasis, outside his favorite pub (he denies this is him btw). There are…

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  • Articles and Books,  personal,  sites

    https://krypted.com/ Shirts Now Online

    April 7, 2009

    Maybe it’s too many years at Defcon, maybe it’s just trying to make shirts I would like to wear myself. Either way, https://krypted.com/ is now offering schwag. Not the free kind (I wish I could) though. So if you need to get your geek warez on head over to the shiny new Shirts tab of the site and check out what I’ve got to offer. This is the first batch. Time permitting the next batch will hopefully be online soon. Hope you like…

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  • personal

    Pirates in Parliament

    March 29, 2009

    Looks like some pirates in Sweden are running for office in the European parliamentary scene – actually it’s the second time it has happened, but the first time they got less than a percent of votes.  With some anti-piracy laws making an uproar over there, they might have a chance of at least upsetting things…  I hope a bunch of ninjas will decide to run, so it can be a right and proper election…

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  • personal

    Where the Wild Things Are

    March 25, 2009

    Still out of the office, so still posting not-so-technical stuff.  The latest on my radar is the new live action trailers for Where the Wild Things Are at Apple. As a book I read long ago and far away, it’s nice to think that I’ll get to see the blend of pictures and imagination on the big screen! Check it out, good wholesome fun!

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  • Mac OS X,  personal

    Richard Stallman is Kinda' Weird

    March 24, 2009

    In the /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc directory (you can sub your version for the one listed here) you have a collection of very interesting files, musings written by Richard Stallman. Because emacs is open source, these files are in all default implementations of the emacs source code. Now I’m one to occasionally pontificate and write completely random musings, but mine aren’t in pretty much every default installation of all operating systems with Unix underpinnings (including Mac OS X) like Stallman’s are. For example, Stallman has a very nice recipe for cookies (that I’ve actually used) in a file called COOKIES in this folder. There’s also a man page for sex.6 here, which provides…

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