Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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How to Clean a Corrupt Event From iCal
On rare occasion, iCal under OS X will get really slow, or lock up. In this case the issue was caused by a repeating event which had gotten corrupted somehow and ended up creating over 12,000 instances within the calendar. It looked fine within iCal, however, when you export the calendar, it created a 4.5…
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Emma’s Birthday
Emma’s Birthday Yesterday was Emma’s birthday. As a surprise present we went paragliding at Mount Tiger. Paragliding is where you run off the top of a mountain and use a parafoil as a wing to fly around. Normally on a good day you can use updrafts and thermals to stay aloft for over an hour.…
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Giant Spider
You can’t get the whole idea of how big he is, since he’s rearing up against the inside of the glass screaming obscenities at me, but he’s about 4″+ across:
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Apple Repair Is Awesome
I love Apple’s support, and can go on at length about how great AppleCare is, and Apple support in general. I recently had a MacBook Pro in for service after the screen went dark. First they overnighted me a box to ship the laptop to them in. Then for each step of the process, I…
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Using IPTables to Prevent SSH Brute Force Attacks
If you have a server with a world facing ssh server, you’ve probably seen brute force attacks in your logs. Some machine starts hammering your ssh server, trying all sorts of logins (staff, root, a, admin, etc…) over and over and over again. This is bad on a lot of fronts. I use two simple…
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Scary Stuff
I don’t want to make my blog political, but I had to post this: “Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.” Tell me that isn’t scary as all get out?
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