Is it Friday yet?
I received the Leopard DVD on Friday, shortly after noon, and almost immediately put it to work. Twenty minutes DVD-verification and 45 minutes of actual upgrade time later I’m running OS X 10.5.
Here are my notes such as they are:
The default netatalk package in Debian/Etch does not cooperate with Leopard. You can either [...]
How to build your own Sputnik:
“I wouldn’t be surprised if you could build one in a container smaller than a matchbox, weighing about as much as a wristwatch. The components, including a transmitter, battery and the sensors you’d need would probably cost less than £50,” he says.
That’s progress.
Stellarium:
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for [...]
Our Epson Stylus CX5400 (bought almost 3 years ago, it’s been discontinued now, of course) all-in-one printer stopped working when 2-3 weeks ago A wanted to use it for something and even putting new cartridges in place (although the old ones weren’t fully depleted yet) didn’t do any good.
What to do, given that I know [...]
Verizon Wireless: If you don’t opt-out, we get to share your CPNI call data:
Verizon Wireless has been contacting its customers via mail to inform them of their intent to share CPNI [Customer Proprietary Network Information] data with “our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries.” The company says that customers who do [...]
Yesterday Apple finally announced when the next version of OS X (10.5, also known as Leopard) will be released, Friday October 26, and within an hour of finding out I’d pre-ordered a so-called family-pack (since we have 4 machines running OS X in the house). Nothing stops anyone from installing the single user version [...]
Thank you, Grand Avenue!
Actually, I’m dealing with the opposite here. Someone has mistakenly used the email address that I have with my ISP (that would be the one that I don’t use except to check it regularly to see if anything other than the usual batch of spam was there, like important messages or anything from the [...]
A little bit of everything.
Amp’d Mobile’s Sordid Remains:
As Hamilton was cleaning out the desks and filing cabinets, he came across some of those excesses in the form of marketing schwag—like condoms stamped with the unfortunate tagline, “Try not to die.” Little did the Amp’d marketing genius who came up with that line know that the [...]
Yesterday morning I came across an article in The Register about Apple preparing some sort of webapp portal for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Since this seemed relevant, I passed that on to the iPhoneWebDev group, to which I’ve been subscribed almost as long as I’ve had an iPhone. Within minutes Erica Sadun, [...]
When you do a subtraction like 13 – 7, you probably don’t even think about it anymore, you just spit out the answer, right? And just to be sure, that should be 6.
A surprised me this evening with a trick that he apparently figured out by himself. Instead of trying to do 13 [...]