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Fallacies of Distributed Computing
jhm – Tue, 2007 – 03 – 20 09:41

This is something I have to do with on a daily basis. The list sounds silly, but is spot on:

  1. The network is reliable.
  2. Latency is zero.
  3. Bandwidth is infinite.
  4. The network is secure.
  5. Topology doesn't change.
  6. There is one administrator.
  7. Transport cost is zero.
  8. The network is homogeneous.

usually we are affected by all of them

Multiple Node Access logic patch
jhm – Fri, 2008 – 11 – 14 11:13

drupal related

How to get content onto your Kindle from Mac OS X
jhm – Sun, 2008 – 10 – 12 08:51

As the author of this blog says, incredible how hard it was to find this information.

Important Tool
jhm – Fri, 2008 – 09 – 05 15:14

This is what we need, a Thneed

Banksy
jhm – Tue, 2008 – 08 – 26 11:45

This lad is an artist. I love his Norman Rockwell themed social critique like

Banksy

Howto fix the “edit home screen” loop for iPhone
jhm – Sun, 2008 – 06 – 01 08:46

Everybody loves the idea to be able to login to the iPhone via ssh and marvel at the fact that this exquisite piece of HW is actually running UNIX (well, a stripped down version of Mac OS X, anyways). It soon dawns that EVERY iPhone has the same root password installed - which is not real security threat considering the fact that ssh as means to login is not supposed to be running anyways. Once you jailbreak your device, you are able to login, but so is everybody else.

Now, when you put on your sysadmin hat and go an change the root password on any of the mobile Mac OS Xes, you'll get a nasty surprise.

Copy Tracks to remote iTunes
jhm – Sat, 2008 – 03 – 15 09:02

Thanks to Paul I got spared a lot of time trying to figure this out for myself. I have the same setup (mini with front row as media center) and even use a NAS to store everything, but could never figure out how to add it to the remote iTunes

jaxer
jhm – Tue, 2008 – 03 – 11 16:32

This seems really interesting

The Global Broadband Speedtest
jhm – Sun, 2008 – 02 – 24 10:46

This is a very nice, graphical, global speed-test

Speedtest.net