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According to iLounge, the oft-rumored Apple Tablet will run the iPhone OS instead of a less impotent version of OS X. If this turns out to be true, it'll be very disappointing. Likely implications of this include that of only being able to distribute apps through the App

I spent pretty much all of last night trying to get Snowy Lepoard's built-in Cisco IPSec VPN support to work with my shiny new Cisco RV042 router, but it turns out (as far as I can tell) that the authentication modes supported by OS X do not overlap

In anticipation of my upcoming Grand Canyon and Collegiate Range trips, I dusted off a couple XSLT books and got to work on whereiscurtis.com. (1) I modified the Perl script (which checks IMAP mailboxes for FindMeSpot locator messages) to ultimately dump out an XML file of the last ten

I ran into something unexpected, recently, related to libpq (the Postgres C API). When running PQexecParams() / PQexecPrepared() and passing a "1" for the resultFormat argument (ie, provide results in binary), a timestamp is returned as a 64-bit value (a uint64 or float, depending on a compile-time option). I

I've resurrected my Random Sentence Generator project - insofar as I've cracked open the books I bought for the project - which is the first step. I grabbed one book from the pile of sentence structure and diagramming books that I acquired some years ago, started

I'm now sporting a shiny new computer and since it doesn't come with a built-in trackpad, I need a mouse. I have a mouse, but for reasons I won't go into, I want a different mouse. My preferences are as follows: 1) laser is