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MacBook External DVD Player

August 21, 2021 by joecodes Leave a Comment

My trusty mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Catalina got an upgrade by replacing the integrated SuperDrive with an OWC Data Doubler and SSD, moving the SuperDrive to an OWC SuperSlim external enclosure. Everything went great except they don’t tell you make it clear that the DVD Player app will not play DVDs from an external SuperDrive.

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Internet Address Lookup Security

July 29, 2016 by joecodes Leave a Comment

Macintosh Security posted PAC Attacks When Using HTTPS! VPN To The Rescue with more good reasons to use VPN to secure your sensitive internet work. Since everyone already does that or uses only secure networks (right?) I was intrigued by the DNSCrypt information at the bottom to secure my internet address lookups.

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Apple vs Pro

June 12, 2016 by joecodes Leave a Comment

Last year I commented on the rumored focus on quality before WWDC. I thought I’d do it again this year, but I’ve pushed it to the last possible moment before the announcements so this is a little thin.

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Quick Thoughts

  • I was surprised to learn that foreach in JavaScript does not have a traditional break. The loop will run to completion.

  • Who knew that combination sums across all permutation lengths of an array would be so difficult? It was a challenge but the final product looks good and takes a lot of resources. Limiting the max length for basic memory limits. Would only do something like this for occasional reporting.

  • Working on a new project that can have hundreds of forms on a page. The browser was spending way too much time in Parse HTML. Wasted a bunch of time before learning this is a long-standing bug in Chrome when there are many forms or inputs. Other browsers are fine.

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