iStumbler 99

Well, there’s now a new version of iStumbler…  iStumbler 99. If your not aware of iStumbler, it is a wireless discovery tool, allowing you easy access to the signal strength, noise ratio, active channel, frequency, and other wireless information from one useful tool. iStumbler 99 Requires Mac OS 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) or later. AirPort Plugin […]

tbaggery – Smack a Ho.st

This is cool.  Now if I just can remember that this alias is available…  I wonder why no one else thought about this…. Tired of having no choice but to add aliases for localhost to /etc/hosts every time you work on a site that uses subdomains? Me too. That’s why I grabbed smackaho.st and made […]

Sophos fixes Retrospect 8 Scanning time issue?

Well, it appears that Sophos may have resolved a problem with their On-Access Scanning & Retrospect 8.  While I have not had a chance to test this yet, Version 7.1.3 of Sophos has this in it’s release notes: Sophos Anti-Virus 7.1.3 Threat detection engine 3.04.1 Threat data 4.50, February 2010 New in this version This version […]

Start screen sharing remotely in Terminal

Assume you want to do some work on a remote Mac via 10.5's Screen Sharing, but you forgot to enable Screen Sharing before you left the remote Mac. Since the screen sharing system uses launchd to monitor its state, enabling and disabling is as simple as adding a file in the/Libary/Preferences folder. Of course, this […]

“splitting” Cat 5 cable, don’t try this at home..

Technically, you can run two 10/100 network lines, with a standard cat 5 cable.  That is because a 10/100 network line only uses 4 of the 8 wires inside a cat 5 line. I do not recommend this though.  Doing so, prevents you from uses 1 Gbs networking, and/or Power over Ethernet. If you do […]