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"Nobody makes a price $11.08 - this is a lazy markup!" When you see a whole page of prices like this, you know the prices are mark...

As you may know, Apple macOS has discontinued support for 32-bit apps and Carbon (as of Catalina and later, from 2019).  Picasa for Mac was ...

I recently got a new iPhone with iOS 13, and, well, I can't get my photos off my iPhone by plugging it in, the way it's worked for y...

I've usually posted my ZFS NAS builds here, but there hasn't been a new one in a while. Amazingly the SANS digital TR8x enclosu...

Just parking these instructions here so Google so people can add a Mac partition to an NTFS USB disk without losing data. If you get a USB...

It took me a while to figure out why my Linux ZFS disk was so slow, but there's an easy fix. I moved disks over from OpenSolaris b134 ...

Quick roster of things that charge: I have 5 laptops and only 2 of them are charged at all. I have two Kindles that have been out of bat...

Many writers have attributed the early success of the Internet to its being a "stupid" network. You could build all the smarts you...

I moved my big ZFS array from a working OpenSolaris system to ZFS on Linux ! Previously I was running Linux but on a VirtualBox hosted by ...

My friends know lots of things about topics like Machine Learning and Big Data. They can detect phrases in speech, objects and faces in bill...

[EDIT: OpenIndiana-discuss concludes that the broadcom network chip is not supported on Solaris, but there is some interest. Also, to use 4 ...

I've been trying out ZfsOnLinux, which seems pretty stable according to a couple of friends. In addition to the usual stuff , I had to...

Watching our 2 year old navigate the iPad has been amazing. She has a huge capacity to figure it out, play her favorite songs, run her favor...

Since Adobe Revel just replicated the thing Google+ did, and they're both wrong, I thought I would say this: If you have two images ov...

I bought a Lenovo Yoga to try out Windows 8. The good news is that screens are getting somewhat better on Windows laptops. The Yoga even has...

I found a copy of the iTunes Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy in my spam folder. Funny. Here's what Spamassassin has to say a...

Along with everyone else, we stopped observing Daylight Savings Time a couple weeks ago. Lorna and I adjusted all our clocks, at least the ...

I got a Philips Hue on the first day it was available at the Apple Store and had f.lux running 3 hours later. Here are my notes. Some not...

If you're using a jailbroken phone and you want to avoid updating an iOS app for any reason: 1. Login via ssh and copy the sandboxed...

It was 2004, and we were in a meeting at Google debating if Picasaweb would have comments in the first version. (There was actually a contin...