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This is actually surprisingly straightforward, once you know the hoops to jump through. Essentially there are 4 main things we need to do: Download El Capitan from the App Store Prepare an install image Create a virtual machine Install El Capitan So let’s take a look at those, one by one… Step 1: Download El Capitan […]
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Ars recently posted a collection of John Siracusa’s write-ups of each OS X release. Going back and reading about the quirks of how older versions behaved is like stepping into a time machine. OS X has come a long way in 15 years, and these write-ups were there every step of the way. “Long form” doesn’t even begin to cover […]
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Despite the European Court of Justice telling the UK it’s illegal, the Snooper’s Charter is back, and they’re scaremongering to justify it. What part of “it’s illegal” because it “interferes in a particularly serious manner with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the protection of personal data” does our government not […]
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Suffering with low entropy on Xen/KVM/VMware VMs? Get help from another computer with better entropy sources. Check out entropyservice. It allows low entropy machines (eg virtual machines) to collect data from another host with high entropy (eg a real computer) via SSH, then stir it in to the kernel’s entropy pool using rngd. Find out […]
Continue ReadingI upgraded to OS X Mavericks last night. It’s great, my Mac is faster, and I’ve not touched a single byte of swap yet, even with a ton of stuff open. But like any OS upgrade, there are some things that are causing my dev environment to work strangely. Here’s how I’m fixing them. Apache […]
Continue ReadingSencha Touch hasn’t been updated for iOS 7’s new fullscreen views yet. This causes the status bar to overlap your app’s content, which looks rather messy. Luckily it’s really easy to get things working again if all your views use title bars / navigation bars. Just drop this code into app.js (after your last Ext.Viewport.add […]
Continue ReadingA WILD PODCAST APPEARS! It’s been far too long since I did one of these, so here’s a bunch of awesome stuff that I’ve been listening to lately. Music this time from Hot Chip, Metric, Delphic, Tame Impala, Alex Metric, Tensnake and loads more. Inner City – Big Fun (Simian Mobile Disco Remix) Niki & […]
Continue ReadingA lighter mix than the past few. Music this time from Grum, Cassius, M83, Of Monsters & Men, Two Door Cinema Club and more! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! Also, please be good and buy the tracks you like, it’s […]
Continue ReadingJust in time to have something to listen to while frantically clicking refresh trying to get tickets for Glastonbury. :) Music this time from Cagedbaby, Van Go Lion, Van She, PNAU, The Migrants and more! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! […]
Continue ReadingFile sharing websites tend to have ads everywhere, and long running HTTP uploads of large files can be a pain in the backside, so I stopped using them a while back. Whenever I needed to share a file with someone, I’d figure out the file’s MD5 sum (to avoid naming collisions), fire up Transmit (the nicest Mac […]
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