Category Archives: technology

Consumption Diagram – v2011-08-07

Posted on August 7, 2011 by drlidbom

This post has been a long time coming. I started this Content Consumption Diagram back in February (when I was trying to explain all my methods of consuming content), and worked on it on and off. I’m still not happy … Continue reading →

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What has technology kept you from today?

Posted on June 26, 2010 by drlidbom

This is not about technology being bad, it’s about balance and priorities. I’ve been doing some reading/thinking about the recent trends (in major Christian circles anyway) towards discussion of how the flood of data (in general) and social media (in … Continue reading →

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Review of iCacti

Posted on June 23, 2010 by drlidbom

iCacti iPhone/iPad App Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Experience Date:Jun 23, 2010 Good: Supports Basic Authentication, gives access to data needed, developer is responsive Bad: UI needs some tweaking, need structured list of graphs (especially on iPad) More Thoughts: … Continue reading →

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iPhone IOS 4 offers better device security

Posted on June 22, 2010 by drlidbom

IOS 4 on your iPhone can now protect (with your passcode) the encryption keys used to protect your data (Apple KB, which I also used the image for this post from, here). This, along with the option for stronger passcodes (not … Continue reading →

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Chrome/Chromium view source does not show entire source

Posted on June 18, 2010 by drlidbom

Using Chrome, I was working on a script that was generating an almost-xml (WXR export) document and outputting it to the web browser. From there, I was copying and pasting the results of the View page source command into a … Continue reading →

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iPad remote wiping nuances with Exchange Mobile Sync

Posted on June 15, 2010 by drlidbom

I was doing some testing with remotely wiping an iPad (via the Exchange ActiveSync Web Administration Tool) today and was impressed with how quickly it wiped. From my preliminary research this is because it actually only wipes the encryption key, … Continue reading →

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Simple is lovely

Posted on October 19, 2009 by drlidbom

Needed to quickly get a new shortcut out to a group of terminal server users on their desktops and start menus.  Nothing particularly complicated about the script, but it did the job: for /f “tokens=*” %a in (‘dir C:\Docume~1\ /b … Continue reading →

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Tethering a Blackberry with OSX 10.5.6

Posted on May 11, 2009 by drlidbom

Evidently there are some pieces of Bluetooth that get changed with the Leopard 10.5.6 update.  One of those appears to break tethering to Blackberries.  If you have everything “correct” based on the number of other tutorials out there, but you … Continue reading →

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Cmd-Tab stops working in OSX

Posted on May 8, 2009 by drlidbom

If your Command-Tab shortcut stops working in OSX, try the following: Start a terminal and run sudo killall Dock If it still doesn’t work, try killing ScreenSaverEventAgent (probably easiest for a novice from the Activity Monitor)

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Reddit minus zealots

Posted on March 30, 2009 by drlidbom

I subscribe to around 30 (give or take) RSS feeds.  Some of them low volume (comments on my site) and some of them ridiculous (reddit’s what’s new feed).  I do get interesting stuff from reddit, but I wanted a way … Continue reading →

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