I was doing some troubleshooting on Animated Mandelbrot and ran across this neat AppleScript. Given a sequence of images it will create a MOV file using QuickTime. tell application “QuickTime Player” activate open image sequence “/Users/jon/Desktop/debug/1.jpg” frames per second 24 end tell
Author: Jon Stacey
How To: Automatic SSH Tunnel
Using public networks for sensitive online communication is inherently risky. Anything that is not transferred through a secured connection is publicly visible. After snooping network traffic at various public wifi hotspots (for academic purposes) I have become a more paranoid web surfer. The https and padlock just aren’t good enough for me anymore. So, whenver…
How To: SSH Public Key Authentication
This is a mini guide on setting up public/private key authentication for SSH. There are several benefits for doing this. For example, it can be used to automate authentication, or to enhance security by requiring a pre-generated key in addition to a normal password.
Inside a Western Digital MyBook
Ever wanted to see the inside of a Western Digital MyBook? I have. One of my 500GB Western Digital MyBook’s died, three months out of warrant … how convenient. Instead of trashing it, I decided to take it apart and see what kind of hardware was used.