Category Archives: general
Gutter Mind
Ingress, Consecutive Days Hacked and Recruiting
Don’t like the the new recruiter badge? Have your say! This stat appeared very briefly in Ingress this morning. But as quickly as it came (and a new badge along with it), it vanished again. The badge (recruiter) has managed to stay (for the moment), but the consecutive hacks has gone. Or has it?
Test Post
Miniature Canon
Hoots Lullaby
What a day its been, What a magic day Shhhh can you hear the moon is on its way. It’s time for all the stars, that sparkle in your eye, to fly to the night and light up the sky. What a day its been, laughing with our friends, now that the sun has sunken …
TextEdit and editing /etc/hosts
To edit your hosts file using TextEdit on Mavericks, you will need to issue the following command in a terminal window: sudo -b /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts
Ingress Glyphs and Imperfect
“Imperfect” isn’t drawn as it seems. Ever got stuck trying to draw the Imperfect glyph hack in Ingress? I must have got it wrong about half a dozen times before I realised it wasn’t me. So, how is it done? I start on the bottom left and then I loop AROUND the middle point to the …
Ingress Level Up Requirements
A list of AP required for each level as well as badges for those levels 9-16.
How much to call Thailand on Telstra Pre-Paid?
Clean Installs for OSX Upgrades
I have a few Mac Minis floating around and some time ago I upgraded one of them to Mavericks. It did have an older version of Snow Leopard on it (pre 10.6.8) and after connecting it to the Internet and upgrading it to 10.6.8, I was able to download and install Mavericks. But I didn’t …