by admin | Aug 25, 2014 | Handy Tools
After searching for a while for a simple way to automate the process of renaming scanned PDF files, I came across A-PDF Rename. I have to regularly scan a large number of equipment borrowing forms and have had to go through one by one and rename them based on the...
by admin | Jul 27, 2014 | Ramblings
I just installed the public beta 1 of OS X Yosemite onto an older macbook, and apart from being a bit slow it seemed all ok. I decided to do the same on my 2010 Mac Pro which uses a RAID 0 of SSDs as the boot disk. After the initial install screens it rebooted and got...
by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems | Ars Technica. This is a really interesting article on the future of the file system: generally considered a really boring and often overlooked part of technology. Why is it interesting? File systems dictate how...
by admin | Dec 30, 2013 | Ramblings
Well, this is the second post. It’s only been six months or so since the last one… pretty good by most blogging standards. Being “enforced break time” (Christmas/New Years) I’m trying to get a few things updated. This site and various...
by admin | Aug 11, 2013 | Ramblings
Well, I’m getting there. The calendar (which is a major part of my site) now seems to be functioning. It also looks rather nice IMHO thanks to the All-in-One Event Calendar Wordpress plug-in. There rest of the site still needs some work. So just be aware if...