Wow, have we reached a fever pitch with the Apple-New-Product speculation, or what? Even the New York Times has joined the fray. This requires me to chime in! Everyone thinks they need to correctly guess some killer detail of Apple’s kindle-plus-color-minus-keyboard game-changer, or whatever it happens to be. Personally, I hope it is an iPencil, [...]
Saturday, January 2, 2010
I thought it might not be the worst time to get more involved in a project I rely upon a great deal: MacPorts. Not really a resolution, but the New Year is not totally a coincidence. Like most open source projects, you can’t just waltz in and start claiming to understand everything and submitting patches [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
I’ve been using an EyeTV device as a PVR for a while, and one of the features I felt was missing was the ability to stream the recordings. After finding a few posts that showed how to accomplish this, I was struck by how primitive these were. So I set about making things a little [...]
One of the frustrations of being a Mac user is that when looking for a solution to a relative simple problem, one sometimes finds a large amount of virtual ink spilled to solve a problem similar to what you have. For example, I recently installed VMWare Fusion on my Mac at work. I set up [...]
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Or at least, a mild case of panic: here’s the tracking info for the computer I shipped myself.
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A while back we bought a Palm TX for Jacquie to use. It didn’t quite meet her business trip needs, so it had been languishing in a drawer for a while. Two things happened to make me dust it off: I read a book on time management whose system required I carry an organizer I [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
A bit ahead of myself with the cacti post, the first job was to properly enable SNMP on all my computers, including the Macs. You would think it was as simple as setting SNMPSERVER=-YES- in /etc/hostconfig and add a read user, and you would be partly right. That would make snmpd run and answer on [...]