So I am fiddling around with a bit of commercial software in demo form and it looks like it will do exactly what I need the iPhone to do to mostly replace my Palm Tungsten C (finally). As a phone the iPhone is simply awesome. Best sound quality of any mobile phone I have ever […]
Tagged iPhone, Palm Tungsten C, PDAGot to help an old friend get set up at work today, as he is starting as a contractor. Also got to use the rpcinfo, fuser, umount, killall, and mount commands again for the first time in nearly a decade… I love me some UNIX-foo, but NFS still sucks (though it fills the void). Built […]
Tagged geek, Personal, UNIX, workI am not even sure this is a bug, but it is a strange and annoying behavior. When I upgraded from iTunes 7 to iTunes 8 for Mac, most of my Smart Playlists stopped playing more than one song with each play command. The playlist would only play one song and stop. Very annoying, you […]
Tagged iTunes, MusicAlmost two months ago I wrote and started investigating why web browsing on my MacBook Air was sluggish. Well, I tried a few things, and then had to focus on other issues and put that problem aside for a bit. I am happy to say my friend Anthony asked about the same issue and I […]
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Man, what a tricky, undocumented, annoying configuration… but it works. We have a few Sun T2000 and T5200 boxes running Solaris 10 at work. We want to run multiple zones (Sun’s virtualization technology) on each physical box; and the virtual servers need to be spread out over several different VLANs to isolate traffic for firewall […]
A couple of friends asked for this recently, and I had not updated in a while – so I made the list into a page and updated it, and it is available at: https://blog.scottnolan.org/essential-mac-os-x-applications/ I’ll take suggestions and add them once I figure them out.
I have a rather large AddressBook on my various Mac computers, it weighs in at 1679 entries, though many of those are goofy duplications of email addresses that showed up when I botched an upgrade from 10.3.9 to 10.5.1. Both MobileMe and .Mac have done an excellent job of keeping the AddressBook application data on […]
So my employer is thinking about developing software for Mac OS X users, but unwilling to develop for all versions. Where can one find reasonably good numbers for how large the installed user base is for each version of Mac OS X broken out by version? I did a quick scan of MacWorld, MacUser, and […]
I want to build a Linux server from parts I assemble so I become more familiar with small computer gear. My design goals are: easy to work on (roomy enough for easy changes, thumb levers/screws where possible) affordable/cheap ($600 or less) powerful enough to run RedHat Enterprise Server 5, Xen 3 virtualization, OpenSUSE 11 and […]
