Category Archives: Technology
rSync
I’m done with lame file sync programs. I am always jumping around between a number of computers and need the latest files while not online and synced to cloud storage. Rsync works great, is free, and is already installed on all macs. Just open a shell and type: rsync –help or rsync -avx –progress –human-readable [...]
Apple Knows Where You Are and Tells Others
Privacy matters. As you know, I love apple products, but according to apple’s new privacy policy, this is very facebooky… “To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data [...]
Department of Defense Power Point Graphic – WOW!
Look at this simply AWFUL graphic, from a NY Times article on Powerpoint – “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter. Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?src=me&ref=general Powerpoint, oh how I hate thee… My question is, “Why is [...]
Calculus
Great, simple overview of Calculus by Steven Strogatz on nytimes.com. “Calculus is the mathematics of change. It describes everything from the spread of epidemics to the zigs and zags of a well-thrown curveball. The subject is gargantuan — and so are its textbooks. Many exceed 1,000 pages and work nicely as doorstops. But within that [...]
Gmail Remote Sign In – Detecting Suspicious Activity
We use gmail for our mail over at Not That This, so this new feature looks great. I’m glad they are exposing this stuff From the gmail blog, “Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I’m sure, you don’t always want other people to [...]