January 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments
It seems to me that there isn't a way to install SSL certificates on the iPhone. If there is, I wasn't able to figure out how. This turned out to be a problem for my corporate email account which is configured to drop connections if an invalid certificate is used.
To compound this, the [...]
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Tags: · Computers, Encryption, Gadgets, Hardware, Howto, iPhone, Technology
In October of 2003 I was obsessing over building a nixie tube clock. Proving conclusively that I have a tendency to carefully painfully prolong decisions about frivolous purchases, I have obtained such a device a mere four years later.
Finding well-designed build instructions that weren't an obvious electrocution risk turned out to be more of [...]
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Tags: · Gadgets, Hardware, Nostalgia, Reviews
September 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
OSX has no problem reading Microsoft NTFS-formatted disks, but writing to them is another story. I need this functionality to work with various external drives and USB keys that need to be shared with Windows machines.
It turns out that this capability can be had without too much hassle using the procedure below.
Before you even [...]
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Tags: · Computers, Hardware, Howto, Macintosh, Open Source, Software, System Administration, Technology, Tutorial, Windows