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Visit to the Coke Store in Las Vegas

russds — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:37:41 +0000

Had a visit to the coke store in Las Vegas. To my surprise it was a nice place to get some good photos. Something about the logos and colors of the Coke brand, really make it a great subject. Enjoy!

Great Resource for Background Pictures.

russds — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:16:54 +0000

Great photography, and great resource for background images:

http://fiftyfootshadows.net/

Forth Of July 2010

russds — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:51:08 +0000

Fireworks rain over Ruby’s restaurant and Huntington Beach pier.

Download the 1440×900 file here.

Mac OS X command to log out

russds — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:23:44 +0000

Every once in a while, not a whole lot, but more than mac finantics are willing to admit: My mac goes wack, and for whatever reason my only hope is to either log out, or force the machine down (hold down power button for 10 seconds). Well, as I enjoy a long uptime just as much as the next guy, I would much prefer to log out rather than shut down. If my mac is really not responding, here’s what sometimes will work:

1. SSH into the mac from another machine. Use a tool like putty to login to your mac from another machine.

2. Get the PID of the “loginwindow” command.

ps -Ajc | grep loginwindow

3. Kill the loginwinow PID. The first column of the output line of the above command will be the PID, you want to kill the process.

sudo kill PID

For example:

russds:~ russell$ ps -Ajc | grep loginwindow
russell 38 1 38 729f750 0 Ss ?? 0:24.37 loginwindow

Then logout with:

russds:~ russell$ sudo kill 38

Wondering what a brand new macbook’s battery life is?

russds — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:42:43 +0000

I just got a brand new macbook. The White unibody kind. It’s actually for my wife. Here’s a screen shot of the brand new battery to use as a reference point. Notice the cycle count and full charge capacity.