UNIX, Security, and Privacy

iPhone: Ever feel tricked by your phone’s signal bars into thinking you have a better reception that you actually do?

Its tedious to generate new entries from scratch all the time.

Installing nginx on OS X is fairly straight forward.

Sometimes you want to install software that is typically categorized as F/OSS (Free, or Open Source Software).

This is an overview on how I use geektool (available in the OS X App Store).

For quite a while, I’ve used XPlanet to display a graphic of the earth.

Depending on what you’re trying to do, setting boot-args may be useful.