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The AppleScript equivalent of rubber sheets for Outlook
Here’s an AppleScript to deal with Outlook getting itchy if there’s email in the outbox and no Internet connection to send it over. Sucks to have your battery die on a plane over something stupid like that. — if I can’t get the Internet, and Outlook wants to send email,…
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Imperfect Product
Software vendor people have all sorts of different backgrounds… while lawyers and architects might have pretty similar educations, software people could have been educated in liberal arts or pre-med or hard knocks instead of STEM or EECS. Furthermore, they might have more experience in selling or more experience in servicing,…
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Notification Silencer (was AppleScript ain’t so bad)
Sick of getting inappropriate popups during screen-sharing sessions? This took about 30 minutes to hack up after I figured out where to look. It could still be a lot better of course, but it does the job. UPDATE: resurrected in 2021: — Run via crontab: 0,1,29,30,31,59 8-18 * * 1,2,3,4,5…
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my virtualized server performance stinks!
Another recurring issue from the last ten years or so… Short answer: You need to work with the SAN admins to get more storage IOPS, and you won’t be able to give them reliable numbers from where you’re sitting because SANs and VM’s will both lie to the guest OS.…
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The Interview Question
There are many things you’re after in an interview, after the all-important chemistry question. However, I’ve found, forgotten, and remembered a question that works well to uncover a lot. If you’re hiring for a sales engineer, services engineer, senior customer support, or architect level position, there’s a cluster of fundamentally…
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iPhone(TM) vs *droid
Switching environments is always a good time to reflect on their relative merits… I’ve just left Android for iOS and have some thoughts on the matter. First, the timeline… a loyal Blackberry user through the 2000s, I was used to a few basic concepts like “email in my pocket” and…
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User Interface and Experience: How Important Are They?
UI and XP design and development are undeniably a big deal, but they’re only part of the problem. What size part? That depends on your sales model. For a consumer product designed to sell itself via the web, it’s well over half of the problem. UI and XP are pretty much the only…
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at least once a week
Every internal technical email list I’ve ever been on has had one of these conversations: A) module XYZ didn’t work by itself, what’s up? B) superstition and voodoo, XYZ will EAT YOUR SOUL. C) did you remember to click the button? A) seems to work okay when you click the…
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GTFOffa my lawn
http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit has me thinking about a conversation I had with a friend last week… The gist is that easier entry levels mean lamer entrants. Oh, we can spin it so many ways… cheaper entrants! Entrants who aren’t wasting their time on unimportant details! Or we can question what they know…
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What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants was a pretty good read, but I found myself disagreeing on a fundamental point… I don’t like that it treats technology as something separate from humanity. Perhaps I’d feel differently if I hadn’t read The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution first, but I did.…
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