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FCC Auction Ensures Open Access — If in Name Only

Posted by Jaimie Pleffner

Wired had posted about Block C in the FCC auction being saved for open access!

The article can be found here

Posted: February 3, 2008 10:03 am | 0 comments
Tags: cell phone, fcc, open access, Wireless

Google's Open Source Android

Posted by Jaimie Pleffner

http://code.google.com/android/

Google has opened up and posted a lot more about their Android, their new open source equiv to the iPhone

Posted: February 3, 2008 10:04 am | 0 comments
Tags: android, cell phone, google, open source

A-Z of Apple Commands

Posted by Jaimie Pleffner

An A-Z Index of the Apple OS X command line

alias Create an alias alloc List used and free memory awk Find and Replace text within file(s)

basename Convert a full pathname to just a folder path bash Bourne-Again SHell (Linux) bless Set volume bootability and startup disk options. break Exit from a loop

cal Display a calendar case Conditionally perform a command cat Display the contents of a file cd Change Directory chflags Change a file or folder's flags. chgrp Change group ownership chmod Change access permissions chown Change file owner and group chroot Run a command with a different root directory cksum Print CRC checksum and byte counts clear Clear terminal screen cmp Compare two files comm Compare two sorted files line by line complete Edit a command completion [word/pattern/list] continue Resume the next iteration of a loop cp Copy one or more files to another location cron Daemo ... more »

Posted: February 28, 2008 1:57 pm | 0 comments
Tags: Mac OS X