Category Archives: Computers and Internet

Measuring engineering productivity

Posted on September 28, 2024 by ericgharrison

An obviously AI generated image of a developer trying to measure their productivity.

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ChatGPT cheat sheet

Posted on January 25, 2023 by ericgharrison

From Neural Magic… https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UOfN0iB_A0rEGYc2CbYnpIF44FupQn2I/view

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Apple System Status Web Page

Posted on November 12, 2020 by ericgharrison

Never needed this until today: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

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Virtual Apple Macintosh Running System 8

Posted on August 26, 2020 by ericgharrison

Running this on an iMac Pro is very conflicting… Scroll down for one click installers. https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

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Flushing DNS cache on MacOS Mojave

Posted on November 14, 2018 by ericgharrison

Something I need to do every now and then.  Open a terminal, paste the command below and hit enter.  You’ll need to enter your administrator password. sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; sleep 2; Once control returns, you’re all set.

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Facebook uses 2 factor authentication phone numbers for marketing

Posted on September 27, 2018 by ericgharrison

There really is no bottom to how low these advertising companies will go.  

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Downloading Google Hangouts Chat for a desktop

Posted on May 25, 2018 by ericgharrison

This is just impossible to find, but super obvious once you do.  Of all ‘people’, you’d think Google would be able to find their own product.

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Adjusting mouse scroll wheel speed in Linux Mint

Posted on May 11, 2018 by ericgharrison

I occasionally install and mess around with different flavors of Linux. Linux Mint is a very interesting one, but something that made it darn near impossible to use was the crazy high scrolling rate when using a mouse wheel. This link has a solution. One thing to note – after you download the .sh file, […]

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Firmware update for Surface Dock

Posted on December 3, 2017 by ericgharrison

This isn’t something you usually hear about. In fact, this is the first dock where I’ve found that there is a firmware update. If you have a Surface Dock, and are having occasional problems with it, I’d suggest following the link below and installing the Microsoft Surface Dock Updater and then use it to update […]

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Mac, diagnose thyself!

Posted on July 23, 2012 by ericgharrison

Over the past few years, our household has turned from a Microsoft Windows centric one, to one that is populated almost entirely by Apple Mac’s, along with iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs. While over the years, the Macs have proved resilient reliable machines, our experience has not been without problems. The only one that has […]

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