August 2008
5 posts
“Your mind is precise and discriminating.”
– Fortune cookie…
Aug 18th
A Tale of Two Batteries
We all know that laptop batteries lose some of their capacity over time. Apple generally warrants them for a year, if I remember correctly, but after that you’re on your own if the battery barely holds a charge.  But how do you get real info on your battery, other than doing time comparisons? Luckily the Mac provides some fairly detailed info.  There’s an application called...
Aug 13th
Aug 2nd
Photos of the LHC →
via http://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/1/lhc/
Aug 1st
Sending specific traffic over a VPN connection on...
For a while I’ve had to go back and forth between using the “Send all traffic over VPN connection” setting and not using it.  Generally I want the setting off, so that all my network traffic doesn’t get slowed down as it bounces through extra servers.  However, sometimes I need to access computers in the office that aren’t on the default VPN subnet. Recently I found...
Aug 1st