May 13: On this day in 1946, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted Southwestern Bell a license for radio-telephone service, which enabled those in St. Louis to be the first in the nation to make and receive phone calls in their car. Covering a 75-mile radius of downtown calls to an auto had to be…
Category: Tech
Christmas song for Unix hackers
better !pout !crybetter watchoutlpr whysanta claus < north pole >towncat /etc/passwd >listcheck listcheck listcat list | grep naughty >nogiftlistcat list | grep nice >giftlistsanta claus < north pole >townwho | grep sleepingwho | grep awakewho | egrep ‘bad|good’for (goodness sake) { be good} (by Frank Carey, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1985)
VIDEO: Jack Dorsey Detailing Agenda For Political Censorship
From Ryan Fournier: BREAKING: Twitter Insider Secretly Records CEO Jack Dorsey Detailing Agenda For Further Political Censorship “We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer…” #ExposeTwitter
Throwback Thursday: Nextel Motorola i580
I was sorting through some old stuff and found this little gem in a box; my Nextel Motorola i580 from back in the commercial electric contracting days. *chirp chirp* I miss those day of the PTT feature. It was very handy on-site for work, though on the flip side there was always the potential for…
Dark Mode in macOS Mojave
I’ve been using macOS 10.14 “Mojave” for several days now and I love the option to change to “dark mode” in the System Preferences, and it’s a pretty easy few clicks to do it too. What I’d like to see though is a faster click to it, or option of it being totally automatic. On…