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Fixing Remote Desktop in Snow Leopard

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Brandon Harper

After upgrading to Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro, I only found a couple of minor issues which were easily fixed. One of them was Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Client crashing at startup when I ran it. Luckily the fix was … Continue reading →

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Can’t Login To Newegg in Firefox? Here’s How To Fix It…

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Brandon Harper

It seems like for at least a couple of years now, I’ve had problems when trying to login to newegg.com with Firefox. Across different installs of Firefox, on Windows, OS X, and Linux, etc.. no matter what I tried, Firefox … Continue reading →

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Drinking The MacBook Pro and OS X Kool-Aid

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Brandon Harper

This past Friday marked the end of the second week at my new job which has brought many changes for me. I left a good sized development team at large company for the uncertainty for a VC funded start-up without … Continue reading →

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So Long Windows, Hello Ubuntu!

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Brandon Harper

Being a lifelong geek, I’m usually an early adopter of various technologies, and Linux has been no exception for me. I started using Linux sometime in 1997 after hearing about it on IRC. I first installed RedHat on a 486 … Continue reading →

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Connecting Directly To the Windows Server 2003 Console via Remote Desktop

Posted on January 18, 2006 by Brandon Harper

Some applications require direct access to the Windows Console to install (in my case, PostgreSQL), and as such it would seem that you have to be at the actual server to install them. Luckily there was a handy trick to … Continue reading →

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