Category: hacks
Dec
01
Tinkering with Disclosed Source Voting Systems
system, elections, vendors, copyright, hacks, open source, research, policy, legal, development*(cross-posted at [Freedom To Tinker](http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/joehall/tinkering-disclosed-source-voting-systems))*
As [Ed pointed out in October][1], Sequoia Voting Systems, Inc. ("Sequoia") announced then that it intended to publish th… more »
Nov
04
I have an old PowerBook G4 that I want to sell, for whatever the market will bear, on eBay.
I put some thought into preparing it for sale. I wanted the hard disk wiped clean of any information I had. I also wanted the recipient to get a fresh, *upd… more »
Nov
02
Michelle's eMac (yeah, it's old) has been doing something weird where iTunes looses all knowledge of her music library and metadata. The music is still there, but her `iTunes Music Library.xml` file is nowhere to be found. Luckily, we back her Mac up… more »
Oct
14
The [iPhone Dev Team is on it](http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/211802082/pwnage-pie)!
The skinny: updating to 3.1.2 is as simple as creating a custom firmware file and then Option+Restore via iTunes. It's that simple.
Here is the more verbose ver… more »
Oct
13
Well, I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard (SL) and it went pretty dang smoothly, I must say. Especially, considering that I did a full "Erase and Install", where one erases their old disk, does a new installation of SL by booting from the SL DVD (and i… more »