For a couple of months in late 2011 I had a constant issue where Shockwave Flash kept crashing after a

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Finder hides dot-files and system locations by default. To show hidden files, open Terminal and run these two commands: defaults

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In 2011 the standard trick for backing up MySQL from PHP was a homegrown mysql_dump() function that walked mysql_list_tables() and

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Leica Camera’s short film (2011, ~2.5 minutes) on how their lenses are designed, computed, and ground. The original embed used

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There is no built-in uninstaller in macOS for most applications: bundled apps can be removed by dragging them to the

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A collection of Core Data resources I found genuinely useful back in 2011, plus a pre-populated-store pattern that still works.

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Back in 2011 this post was a bare copy-paste of a getifaddrs() snippet for reading an iPhone’s Wi-Fi MAC address.

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With LINQ to SQL you can’t change a foreign-key column directly on a tracked entity — the context owns the

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Symptom: SQL Server refuses to run xp_cmdshell with SQL Server blocked access to procedure ‘sys.xp_cmdshell’ of component ‘xp_cmdshell’ because this

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What you’re seeing If you use WordPress’s one-click updater, you’ve probably met this screen: the whole site — admin included

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