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useful screen bash function

So I pretty much live in screen permanently these days, and there are a gazillion awesome introductions out there to screen that describe the amazing advantages of screen.
One thing that has been a minor niggle has been the clunky way you pick which screen session you wish to reattach to if you have multiple sessions [...]

Creating stable and unstable branches with Apple’s Software Update Server.

Creating stable and unstable branches with Apple’s Software Update Server @ afp548.com

Heading to MacWorld…

Just as a quick note…
After spending four (maybe five if England can hold out that long) glorious days watching Shane Warne’s last Test match at the SCG, I’ll be flying straight out to San Francisco to do some presentations at MacWorld.
It’s always good to put faces to names, so if you’re around make sure [...]

Typos can be fatal…

So last night I was playing around with the MBR on an external drive… and completely without thinking managed to wipe out my laptop.
/dev/rdisk1 Nigel, not /dev/rdisk0 ….
bleagh.
Anyway, it’s made me realise just how much I love HomeSync, as 95% of everything that matters has been syncing up to the server… and as I’ve had [...]

Airport Extreme base stations do not do Radius Accounting.

This is mainly for any weary souls treading the same Google path that I have been lately…
The Airport Extreme (and I assume the Express as well) base stations do not do Radius Accounting. They do happily work with Radius Authentication, but not Accounting.

This means that if you’re looking for a solution for network quotas [...]