July 7 – 10, 2015. Stay tuned for updates!
Mike Galke
Technologist
Author: Mike
The Grateful Dead’s Farewell, 50th Anniversary Tour!
I’m not sure if it’s more accurate to say that the long, strange trip is finally over… or finally here! The weekend of July 3, 4 and 5 at Chicago’s Soldier Field will mark the tour commemorating the 50th anniversary…
Tagged with: Music
Aristotle’s Definition of Happiness vs. Modern Western Culture.
Being charged with the task of comparing and contrasting Aristotle’s definition of happiness—or virtue ethics, with those of present day western culture, has proven to be quite the roller-coaster ride, and challenging on several fronts. Among other things, these…
Tagged with: Ethics
Exploring Alcoholism as a Disease: A Scientific Approach
Exploring the Disease of Alcoholism: A Scientific Approach Michael Galke St. Joseph’s College There are many more volatile topics in our present-day 2015 culture, than whether or not alcoholism is a disease. Despite its place in today’s dialogue…
Ethics and Passive Euthanasia
Ethics Case Study No. 2: Family Wishes and Patient Autonomy Of the four scenarios presented to us, the option of Family Wishes and Patient Autonomy piqued my interest for two reasons: (1) A remark made by Professor Michael Burke in one…
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Critical Review: The Diving Bell & The Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is an undeniably compelling account of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s life before and after he was stricken with “Locked-in Syndrome” as the result of a severe stroke at age 43. Bauby takes us through this journey…
Use ‘Secure Copy’ (scp) to Get or Push Files Remotely from Command-Line
FTP is perhaps the least secure means to transfer files over the Internet, so if you’re near a Unix terminal, fire it up and type: To get files from a remote machine to your local machine: scp <user@remote>:/path/to/file/file.ext /local/path/file.ext (replace <user@remote>…
Tagged with: Technology
Changing the Default Format for Screenshots
In past OS versions, Apple has chosen to use different formats for the screenshots that are generated by typing “Command-Shift-3” or “Command-Shift-4”, such as .pict, .jpg, and .pdf. Since Tiger, they seem pretty content to stick .png. If you had…
Tagged with: Technology
DNS ‘Flushcache’ Command Change in Leopard
Prior to Leopard, if you wanted to clear out the DNS cache for web-paqe connectivity issues from the command-line, you’d type: lookupd -flushcache For whatever reason, beginning with Leopard, Apple has changed this command to: dscacheutil -flushcache
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Latency Issues Talking To Network Mounted Sharepoints
End-user was reporting his brand-new Intel MacPro was taking forever to transfer files (any files) to his particular mounted sharepoint on the company’s Xserve. After verifying the problem by reproducing it (the LAN in question was gigabit), but the throughput…
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