slaptijack

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Making PNGs with alpha-channel transparency in Photoshop

I used David Chess' tutorial on PNG alpha-channel transparency in Adobe® Photoshop® to create the Slaptijack sandwich logo. When I first started working on the logo, I was completely lost. I knew I …

Important commands: ditto nicl nidump passwd

If you're like me, you might be occasionally called upon to remotely manage a few Mac OS X systems. The environment I'm working in only allows SSH access to these systems, so everything must be done from the command line.

Unlike Linux and most …

It used to be that access lists in Cisco IOS were numbered. Not only were they numbered, but the numbers were significant to what kind of access list they were. Now access lists (and just about everything else) can be named rather than numbered. Although this seemingly innocuous change has …

I recently started using ScribeFire as my blogging client. Here are some initial thoughts on it.

• ScribeFire is not an offline editor. As far as I can tell, there is no way to store unpublished content locally. In terms of usefulness, this probably goes both ways. It's a pain when …