Tag " Technology"

In our previous post, we showed you how to use socat, ssh, and some fancy footwork to pipe a UDP-based request coming from Net::Growl, through a TCP-based reverse-proxy ala SSH, and back to the Mac as a UDP-request straight to Growl. What happens if you’ve got more than one person wanting to do the same [...]

Here at Mystic, we do a lot of remote work using IRC. And due to the heavy use of best of breed tools under OSX and Linux, we find ourselves working in a shell a lot of the day, along with our IDE. We like to keep in the Flow state for as much of [...]

Mystic will be in attendance in Vegas for The Server Side Java Symposium this year, as we’ve mentioned. We’ll be doing regular updates and reviews of the sessions we attend, and what was learned by the presenters. As we are also giving a talk on Friday, we know how hard each speaker has worked to [...]

If you’ve ever wondered what the architects who designed the system powering that big farm of servers, Eugene Ciurana has written the guide for you. At just shy of 6 pages, with a wealth of great, easy to understand diagrams, it is a quick but informative read. I must admit however, that I’m a bit [...]

It was Wednesday morning. The night before SuperDuper smart updates at it’s regularly scheduled time, and Apple update runs. I haven’t updated to 10.5.4 yet. Check all the boxes, close all open programs, update. I slept well that night. Walking into my office that morning the screen was dark as normal. Repeated presses on the [...]