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  • TweetBeing able to remotely administer a Linux machine using SSH is something so common and normal that it often gets taken for granted. Mobile broadband is quick enough that with...

    Shellinabox – Access a command line over HTTP

    TweetBeing able to remotely administer a Linux machine using SSH is something so common and normal that it often gets taken for granted. Mobile broadband is quick enough that with...

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  • TweetRight, so the worse has happened… your shiny Mac has gone wrong – while booting it took forever and showed a mysterious grey/white progress bar. A progress bar you’ve never...

    Recover files from a TimeMachine sparsebundle that isn’t recognised

    TweetRight, so the worse has happened… your shiny Mac has gone wrong – while booting it took forever and showed a mysterious grey/white progress bar. A progress bar you’ve never...

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  • TweetHas this ever happened to you? You’re driving around listening to the radio, switch the car off to go and do something (fill up with petrol in my case) and...

    Stop your Citroen C3′s radio from beeping at you

    TweetHas this ever happened to you? You’re driving around listening to the radio, switch the car off to go and do something (fill up with petrol in my case) and...

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  • TweetEveryone likes looking at the innards of electronic devices. Modern ones are a bit boring now unless you’ve got a microscope, but there’s plenty of interest in old tech… especially...

    Inside a Motorola 8500X brick phone

    TweetEveryone likes looking at the innards of electronic devices. Modern ones are a bit boring now unless you’ve got a microscope, but there’s plenty of interest in old tech… especially...

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  • TweetI recently upgraded my server to a new machine running Ubuntu 11.10. With the Macs in our house I’ve always used Samba for file sharing – it works, it’s stable...

    Make Netatalk work on Ubuntu 11.10 and OSX

    TweetI recently upgraded my server to a new machine running Ubuntu 11.10. With the Macs in our house I’ve always used Samba for file sharing – it works, it’s stable...

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