by Greg Lawler | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog, Linux, Nerds, Tools, Video
ccze is a wonderful tool that brings real joy to the arduous task of reading or searching thru log files. #nerdalert We’ve been using ccze for many years but recently stumbled (um, actually, rtfm’d) upon the “missing” feature, namely the...
by oo | Jun 29, 2019 | kidtech, Video
The Outside Open team launched a high altitude balloon this past weekend and we were able to get our best photograph from near space yet! The photo, taken at approx 89,000 ft (airplanes fly at just 30,000 ft) is so high that it is above the blue and you can peer into...
by Greg Lawler | Jan 26, 2019 | Blog, Mac, Tools, Video
There are some fantastic tools that your Mac needs to greatly boost it’s usability and power.Two big hitting “after market” applications are iTerm2 and Homebrew – we’ll cover iTerm2 in this post and you can read about Homebrew for Mac...
by Greg Lawler | Feb 16, 2017 | Mac, Tools, Video
There are two fantastic tools to install on you new Mac: After you install iTerm2, it’s time to install Homebrew! Homebrew is a package manager – think apt-get for OS X. It is trivial to install and instantly gives you access to thousands of open source...
by Greg Lawler | May 9, 2016 | Video
After countless hours of reading manuals, schematics and myst documentation, Mike Bales and the Santa Barbara Hackerspace crew were able to successfully assemble and power up the behemoth Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that was donated to the Space by Santa...
by Greg Lawler | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Mac, Tools, Video
Even if your company (or home) doesn’t officially support Apple devices, it’s likely that there are dozens of BYOD Apple devices (BYOAD?) on the network. When a new OS update or patch is released, all those devices clamor for bandwidth which can have a...
