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Jul 06 2012
Collecting Arcades: My very own NBA Jam machine for $350
I was 12 years old when NBA Jam was released in arcade form. I remember the first time I saw the game at showbiz pizza. It had unbelievable graphics beyond anything else at the time, and amazing forever memorable gameplay. Who can forget the first time they saw someone “On Fire”, or heard the snarky …
May 30 2012
Family Tech Support Myths: Don’t login as an Admin user
It’s time again for another family tech support mythbusters episode. This time we’ll tackle the premise that it’s more “secure” to login to your system as a user rather than an administrator. The idea to limit your logged in privileges on a system is a sound one, provided the system that enforces privileges actually works. …
May 24 2012
Fixing EMMA’s coverage.out.file System Property
If you’re using EMMA for java code coverage report generation, you may quickly jump to EMMA’s property reference table in the documentation. There you will see documentation such as this: Property: coverage.out.file Default: coverage.ec This would lead an average java developer to quickly attempt using EMMA with a JVM arg such as: -Dcoverage.out.file=/my/path/coverage.ec Unfortunately, you’ll …
May 07 2012
Tough Luck: The comics industry is crazy.
Remember way back when, in high school, when your friend introduced you to that great album that you instantly fell in love with? Remember going down to the record store or perhaps online and buying a copy of that album you liked so much? How did that go? What happened if the record store didn’t …
Mar 23 2012
Games Like Pikmin
Pikmin is the greatest game ever, I think. For those unfamiliar with the game, it’s basically a simplified RTS game, with a focus on resource gathering and multi-tasking. That is, the enemies that you encounter are not consistently coming to demolish your home base with constant aggression, instead you take them on at will, taking …
Feb 28 2012
Music Roulette – Free for the month of March
Music Roulette is going on sale for the low low price of FREE for the month of march. Music Roulette helps you pick random music to play from your IOS device’s iTunes Music Library. It makes the process of choosing something random fun and easy, and choosing to play or shuffle an entire artist or …
Feb 24 2012
Cool Stuff: Remote Desktop (VNC, RDP, etc)
See that? That’s my desktop this afternoon. If you look closely you’ll notice that a few of my desktop applications look a little odd. This is my mac mini’s OSX desktop, with Windows in the left application window, and another OSX in the right window. The trick here is that those two windows are my …
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Jason Baker is a software engineer. He works on enterprise infrastructure for big companies. He also enjoys creating smaller scale software products and scripts in his spare time.