My college, like most others across America employ a restrictive firewall and limit bandwidth for certain file transfers. YouTube in particular is severely limited on my campus making viewing virtually impossible on weekends and painfully slow any other time. Fortunately though, I learned a little more about the network setup and how they prioritize different…
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iTunes Transcoding Lossless to AAC Workflow
My iTunes library is massive (when compared to the capacity of an 80GB iPod). Nearly all of my songs are in Apple Lossless so as you can imagine, it is not hard to have more songs than my iPod will hold in the lossless format. Being familiar with other media managers, I expected to be…
How To: Install Tomcat on Mac OS X
I recently had to install Tomcat for Web Technologies class where we are exploring the world of Servlets and JSPs. I performed the following steps to setup Tomcat 5.5 on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Download the core binary distribution of Tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org in zip or tar.gz format. Unzip the download and rename it…