Brian Bilbrey

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Brian Bilbrey

Fuzzy? Mac Air MiniDP/HDMI vs. Samsung Syncmaster P2770HD

What a lovely lead, eh? But I had a heck of a time finding my answer, and while I never did find precisely what I wanted via search engines, I did get enough of a hint that I finally figured it out. I have Agog, this Mac Air. It's got Thunderbolt/Mini Display Port output and I've got a MiniDP-to-HDMI adapter. I also have this 27" HDMI + DVI Samsung Syncmaster P2770HD display. Here's the problem: When I connected the Air to the Syncmaster at full resolution, the screen image was displayed with about "half an inch" missing at the top…

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Brian Bilbrey

Getting Things Done

But not GTD in the larger sense. But getting things done, lower case: I shaved the lawns yesterday, front and back. I did a bit of weeding in the garden, also. And today, I find that for the second summer session class, I ended up 1 point shy of an ace, out of 500. Yes, absolutely where I should have been for a class on UNIX and shell scripting. But now just two classes to go! Huzzah! * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Staff Sgt. Brandon R. Pepper, 31, of York,…

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SuperDuper! to the rescue!

Today, I changed the password on my Mac Air, Agog. I then cooked dinner, and watched a couple of episodes of Poirot. I came upstairs ... and I don't remember the password I set. It was a good one. I have backups a couple of different ways, but neither of them seemed to be immediately accessible to me. In order to recover from the Time Machine backups, I need WiFi configured *and* I need to mount the volume that has that sparse image on it. That path seemed blocked to me. But there's a better way! I make periodic backups…

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