Tag Archives: osx

Introducing getwiinandkey

Posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010 by Peter

Okay. For some unknown reason you want to explore the internals of the Nintendo Wii. The plan goes something like this: Collect an image of your Wii NAND chip and the console-specific keys. ??? Profit Hopefully this post will shed … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Elite!

Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 by Peter

The BBC website assures me that Elite was released 25 years ago today (more or less). There have been loads of ports/re-imaginings since then and one of my favourites is Oolite. It was originally developed for Mac OS X, but … Continue reading →

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Installing GPG on Mac OS X

Posted on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 by Peter

GPG is an open-source implementation of the PGP encryption standard, useful for encrypting and signing digital communications. Think sending a letter in a sealed envelope rather than a postcard. I’m currently using MacGPG 1.4.9 along with the GPGMail extension to … Continue reading →

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A practical use for the OS X ‘say’ command

Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by Peter

Glad to see I’m not the only person to do this!

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