Mountain Lion and “Save As…”

Sigh. OS X Mountain Lion is so good in so many ways, and yet loses. One gain was the return of "Save As…". To access this in a menu you hold down the option key and mouse over the menu. Under File, Save As… magically reappears. But the leyboard shortcut is NOT Command+Shift+S. Instead it…

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Showing the Library Folder

chflags nohidden ~/Library/ Inside the Library folder are Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content and Mobile Documents (local storage for iCloud). I was intrigued by iA Writer – an app that runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac OSX, a minimal writing environment. It saves documents by default to iCloud, thus sharing between devices… Being the experienced (working…

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Commonality in design considerations…

JunOS (or Junos or Juniper OS) divides responsibility between control plane, service plane, forwarding plane.  Thus a router controls access to itself, routing, ip adresses it owns,  possibly policies pertaining to how traffic will be handled.  Services looks at quality, quantity and rules within packets.  Forwarding is the acceleration of packet throughput – a lookup…

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