Year: 2008
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Using a 1st Gen iPhone Dock With a 3G iPhone
I recently upgraded from a 1st gen 8 GB iPhone to a 16 GB 3G 2nd gen iPhone. The 3G iPhone does not come with a dock, unlike it’s predecessor, and the Apple Store was out of docks when I purchased the phone. I discovered that the new iPhone is slightly wider and a little…
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Why You Shouldn’t Talk To The Police
I’m not a conspiracy nut, and I believe that the majority of law enforcement officers are good people. That said, this page and it’s videos have some GREAT information on why answering questions for the police can never help you, and will very often hurt you. Loose lips can get you arrested
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Time Machine To The Rescue
I ran an ANT task to undeploy an ATG Module, but I had my build property module location set incorrectly. As a result, I inadvertently deleted my entire ATG 7.1 installation. Whoops. I opened the containing directly in the Finder, where my ATG 7.1 USED to be, and hit TimeMachine. My laptop connected to my…
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AT&T DNS Cache Poisoning
Recently there has been a lot of press about AT&T DNS servers being hit with a DNS Cache Poisoning attack. Some new easier exploits were recently published, and many DNS servers are still vulnerable. And up until the new exploits were published publicly, the majority of DNS servers were vulnerable. This situation is worse once…
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10 Skills You Need That You Won’t Learn In School
I just read this article: 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything. I think it’s a great list. At least for my career path, I can directly attribute a great deal of my effectiveness and successes to skills on this list. Being able to communicate clearly and articulate a point or argument, verbally…
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Doing The Best Job You Can
I was reading a story about some airline employees failing to take care of a passenger with MD, and one comment mentioned how a Japanese airline employee hand delivered a jacket a passenger had left behind on the opposite side of the country. Without making any particular comments on the US airline industry’s current level…