How to copy DVDs to your mac hard drive

Favorite Note: These instructions originally appeared on c/net on 12/2009. Most macs no longer have a disc drive, so that part of the instructions may not work all mac users today, e.g., you’ll have to get yourself an external disc player. The original article is attributed to Joe Aimonetti — but his profile link now leads…

How to ByPass Video Region Restrictions in Under a Minute

Favorite Found this on Digital Trends .com, while searching for a way to view the wikileaks film “Mediastan”. By Andrew Couts  —   October 19, 2012 I’m not going to lie to you: My girlfriend and I are big, sappy, aristocrat-loving “Downton Abbey” fans. So when season three debuted in September, we could hardly wait to start watching. Problem…

Mac OS X – Show / Hide Hidden Files

Favorite This content was originally posted at http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2007/03/23/mac-os-x-show-hide-hidden-files-in-finder/ ——————————————————————————————— I always forget how to do this because I toggle this rather sporadically so I’m adding it to the public record. To show hidden files in Finder pop open your terminal and type the text shown in the screen grab below. To go back to hiding…

Wikileaks writer’s kit

Favorite “ …newspaper headlines still display: “No right to interfere in our internal affairs!” Whereas there are no INTERNAL AFFAIRS left on our crowded Earth! And mankind’s sole salvation lies in everyone making everything his business; in the people of the East being vitally concerned with what is thought in the West, the people of…

The Cypherpunk Revolutionary

Favorite Originally posted on the cryptome.org website, an essay by Robert Manne on Julian Assange. The essay provides a history of the formation of Wikileaks.org, it is quite lengthy, but is full of jewels making it worth the long read. ******************** p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px…

admin-only navigation bar to bridge several projects

Favorite Sometimes I want the home page of a project to look different to administrators than to regular users.  For instance, on a couple projects of mine I was integrating several different technologies, osTicket, osProject, and WPMU — each one of these has different locations for their administrative use, so it is therefor useful to…