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Tag Archives: osx
Your computer is crap
- Xerox Alto
And now I have your attention, I will explain why.
The computer you see in this image is a Xerox Alto, a prototype computer that contained a graphical user interface, pointing device called a “mouse”, full A4 screen with a virtual “desktop”, it was connected to other computers using “ethernet” and could display print quality documents… Continue reading
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Tagged apple, engelbart, gui, mouse, osx, user interface, Windows, xerox
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DOSBox on OSX
4D Sports Driving running in DOSBox under MacOS X
I was never one to play racing simulations, the desire to go around and around and around a track like some car-driving robot never appealed to me. I always wanted to go the wrong way and cause mayhem instead.
Once upon a time… Continue reading
Learning LWJGL, Slick and Slickset
Printed out the example Space Invaders clone, scribbled all over it to make sense of it. Turns out the old method of learning how to program still works pretty well. I guess I’m a visual learner since the simple act of printing the code onto sheets of paper so I could draw on them caused the code to make sense. I sat on my settee and by cross-referencing the code… Continue reading
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Tagged blog365, Java, Linux, LWJGL, macbook, motivation, osx, Programming, SlickSet, Windows
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No disk space
On my server, PC and Mac… where’s it all gone? What am I going to do?
I think I need to buy some bigger disks and put them in my server. A terabyte should do me. My PC needs its disk sorting out, there’s Linux and Windows squashed in there, along with a data partition. Then I installed a few virtual machines in Windows and now the Windows partition is full.
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VPNs, SSH Tunnels and my Macbook
This weekend away has been an excellent chance to test out my home network and remote access to it. Some of the things I’ve done were just as a test, other things have been really useful.
For a start I allow incoming SSH connections so that I can access my server from anywhere outside. I’ve used this for everything from transferring files to setting off backups of my system at home. To maintain consistency between logins, and to cope with faulty Internet connections, I use screen to keep control of my session.
Tip: Use the following .screenrc option to make your many screen sessions less confusing by printing a list of open sessions along the bottom of your display:
hardstatus alwayslastline “%{.bW}%-w%{.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %H %{..Y} %Y/%m/%d %0c:%s ”
In anticipation of other remote connections I might want to make to my machine at home, I thought about setting up a VPN. There are several options, all described in detail across the Internet, so I’m not going into detail about how to configure things, I’ll just explain what I am using and where I found out the information that made it work.… Continue reading