by David Orriss Jr | Oct 25, 2020 | Apple, iOS, Operating Systems, watchOS
This past weekend I had to unpair and re-pair my Apple Watch after the most recent WatchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates. Applications would neither install or update. I can only presume something was failing in the handshake or certificate management that iOS and watchOS use...
by David Orriss Jr | Sep 21, 2015 | Mac OS X, Operating Systems
If you’re an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) user like me, you’re probably familiar with or at least have heard of an identd service. IdentD is simply a service that, when accessed on port 113 of a computer, returns a simple string that identifies you as a user....
by David Orriss Jr | Nov 25, 2014 | Java, Mac OS X
Thanks to superuser.com I found a neat trick to make it easy to list your installed Java versions and switch between them. Just add these to your .bashrc file: # # # alias java_ls='/usr/libexec/java_home -V 2>&1 | grep -E "\d.\d.\d[,_]" | cut -d...
by David Orriss Jr | Sep 26, 2014 | Linux, Operating Systems
Recently the events concerning the Shellshock exploit have been all over the media. This one is bad.. real bad: Remote exploit vulnerability in bash CVE-2014-6271 However it’s entirely possible that your Linux distribution might not have a patch readily...
by David Orriss Jr | Jun 10, 2012 | Mac OS X, Programming, Ruby
While tinkering with Ruby 1.9 in TextMate I found that Ruby was segfaulting on the TextMate Ruby Bundle output screen. /Users/codethought/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Ruby.tmbundle/Support/RubyMate/catch_exception.rb:16: [BUG] Segmentation...
by David Orriss Jr | Dec 1, 2010 | General, Mac OS X, Windows
Does that title sound familiar? My wife and I got an email this morning from my father that read as follows: Subject: I’m writing this with tears on my eyes !!! Hello, I’m sorry for this odd request and I’m writing this with tears on my eyes due to...
