When I bought my MacBook Air earlier this year, one of my concerns was the absence of an integral wired ethernet port. Most of the time I don’t need one; we have excellent wireless at work and home; and most hotels we visit have wireless as well. I did recall that many hotels only have […]
I must be dreaming. Three days in a row with no need to close windows nor run the air-conditioning. Gorgeous weather, can it really be August near Washington? Temperatures are still getting up to 90 in the afternoon, but there is so little humidity that it’s comfortable to be active, work, or even exercise without […]
So we wasted entirely too much time trying to figure out a really complex to diagnose bug at work. Turns out that the startup script for NTP v4 hangs hard if there is no networking enabled when ntp is started on an openSUSE 11 system. Because we run our openSUSE servers in a Xen virtual […]
For those of you using Google Calendars and Mac OS X Desktops with iCal, you can finally keep them in sync without any 3rd party software. Google supports CalDav format now. Instructions are on the Google Calendar CalDAV support page. I have mostly been relying on my Palm Tungsten C and Palm Desktop (v4.2.1) for […]
So a couple of weeks ago my employer replaced an obsolete Dell Latitude D800 (how the hell can a ~2004 era computer already be obsolete?) with a brand new Dell Latitude D630 also running Windows XP. The old machine was frustrating beyond belief; constantly resetting itself because of either a faulty power and volume button […]
I’ve been very happy with our AppleTV since I got the thing hooked up over a year ago. I like it mostly for viewing internet content on the big screen, though we have rented a movie or two and dumped some dance videos and photo slide shows from the computer into the AppleTV for big-screen […]
Many thanks to John Gruber and his friend Nat for posting a suggestion on how to fix the nasty bug that crashes OS X when using Time Machine to a Time Capsule to back up your Mac. I used Airport Utility to enable File Sharing under the Disks menu. Then Disk Utility to “repair” the […]
I have been using Adium for ages to to all my online chit-chat with folks who use AOL Instant Messenger, Jabber, and Yahoo Messenger (Adium supports MSN Messenger too, but I refuse to use that). Adium’s interface is vastly better than the one you get from AOL, and miles better than most of the others […]
I just wanted to take a moment to rave about Make Bookmarkable AppleScript from Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes. I was getting annoyed that our audiobooks were getting randomly played as music when I wanted music, and a quick google search lead me to iTunes FAQ on Michael Alderete’s Weblog. I quickly downloaded Make Bookmarkable, created […]
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13777 3 May 1978, first Commercial message on the arpanet, and it pissed people off even then. You’d think marketing types would get the hint that we don’t like their crap in our inboxes… Oh wait, that’s right, some morons actually encourage spammers by buying the junk advertised.
