octern

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I'm a hybrid programmer / web designer / psychology researcher. I'm currently doing internet-based psychological interventions with a University of California health research lab, trying to help folks learn skills for creating positive emotions and coping with stress effectively.

I also help non-technologically-inclined researchers and administrators manage and collate large datasets. Munging unruly text files may not be glamorous, but you'd be surprised how often it's what gets the science done.

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May 15	revised	“device not configured” error when attempting to reach specific websites deleted 60 characters in body
May 15	comment	“device not configured” error when attempting to reach specific websites It doesn't appear to even be trying to load the site. Also note that I get these anomalous error messages when I use ping, so I don't think it has to do with the content of their web pages. I've also verified that these sites respond to pings normally using a different computer.
May 15	revised	“device not configured” error when attempting to reach specific websites added 118 characters in body
May 15	comment	“device not configured” error when attempting to reach specific websites @Buscar웃 Thanks for the suggestion; I've added a list.
May 15	revised	“device not configured” error when attempting to reach specific websites added 298 characters in body
May 15	asked	“device not configured” error when attempting to reach specific websites
Feb 23	comment	My new MBP Retina needs to be recharged after 2 1/2 hours Yes, if Chrome is constantly running at 100%, that's what's draining your battery. And no, that shouldn't be happening. That usually happens to me when there's a rogue flash application or something like that slamming my processor.
Feb 22	comment	Disable copying of file Why pictures? If they're able to read the code, couldn't they just copy-paste it into a document on their computer? There's no reasonable way to prevent that.
Feb 22	comment	Lost first backups - time machine Good point. I didn't realize it started purging old daily backups right away, rather than just not guaranteeing that it would keep them.
Feb 22	comment	Lost first backups - time machine Not necessarily. They could just be looking to revert to an early version of an existing file.
Feb 22	comment	Lost first backups - time machine Data recovery software definitely won't help if Time Machine deleted those backups in order to immediately overwrite the drive space with new backups.
Feb 21	accepted	Switch from sleep to hibernate after set time
Feb 19	comment	Switch from sleep to hibernate after set time Oh, that's great, thank you. I experimented with `standbydelay`, but it didn't work when I tried it -- I didn't know that a USB device could keep it from engaging. I'll do another test right now.
Feb 19	comment	How to stop Mountain Lion to stop shutting down and closing all my applications? This would not lead to applications being quit when the computer locks.
Feb 19	revised	Switch from sleep to hibernate after set time added 47 characters in body
Feb 19	comment	How do I re-enable the touchscreen on my iPhone after I've disabled it? +1: The original question is vague enough that I dont know if it deserves an answer, or is capable of being answered. However, I salute this effort at cataloging everything that could disable a touchscreen in a theoretically reversible way.
Feb 19	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Feb 19	revised	How can I modify an existing FAT partition without losing its data? more specific title
Feb 19	suggested	suggested edit on How can I modify an existing FAT partition without losing its data?
Feb 19	comment	How do I enable a standard account to SSH in? I can sympathize; I wrote my own version of rm to move things to the trash instead of deleting them. See this question for another, hopefully more robust version that you could install.