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Unfuck the Leopard Dock
After a couple of days with leopard, I got sick of the new dock. I turned up a fix after poking around, and realizing that side-mounting the dock made it…
Category: Geekery
Welcome to the tech triage unit. Geekery is where we wrestle with code, deploy terminal commands, and attempt to unfuck the digital landscape. This is a running log of technical survival: migrating away from old, janky site infrastructures, messing with instant-message scumbags, and hacking OS flaws to make them actually usable.
Whether we are stress-testing hardware via grid computing or chronicling the acquisition of shiny new tech just to see if it holds up, we are documenting the endless fight to keep the machines in line. If it requires root access or an existential sigh at a screen, it belongs here.
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Kick my ass, save the World
I’ve been using the [Boinc](http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) client to particpate in a number of grid computing projects for the last year. My involvemnt started off with the need to stress-test a system…
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iPhone acquired
And I’m posting from it. I finally get to be the kid with the Nikes. The one that gets shot and shit, you dig?
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Email etiquette 101
I work in an IT at a university. I expect, to some extent, to have to deal with morons. It’s part of the job. But for fuck’s sake, cannot the…
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If the RIAA were an IT Dept…
Adapted from a conversation elsewhere… Recording contracts with RIAA companies are more or less equivalent to signing away your payday. Many smaller acts, even those who tour frugally, end up…