Upgraded the first machine to Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) this morning. All in all it took about an hour (first generation MacBook Pro, so newer machines will no doubt process it a bit faster). The only customization I added to the installation was to include Rosetta, just in case (it’s tiny so [...]
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What were they thinking?
I’m annoyed and confused about NewsGator/NetNewsWire’s recent actions.
For starters, I’ve been a happy NetNewsWire user for several years. It was recommended to me when I started with OS X on a Mac Mini (the original PPC version) when it was still developed independently and had a lite and full (for pay) version. I [...]
Mac Mini Migration Madness
Not so much madness actually because aside from one hiccup things went pretty smoothly.
First some comparisons:
Original Mini, first generation model from January 2005:
512MB RAM PC-2700 DDR SDRAM
40GB disk
1.25 GHz PowerPC G4
ATI Radeon 9200 GPU with 32MB VRAM
Two USB ports
Firewire 400 port
10/100 Mbit ethernet
1 modem (remember those?) port
Hard disk and CD/DVD drive both (P)ATA
Then in comes [...]
Switching things around
In the near future (such a conveniently flexible concept) the front page of this website will point to an instance of SweetCron while the blog will probably be moved to a subfolder. SweetCron describes itself as Lifestream software, which allows me to easily gather RSS and Atom feeds from elsewhere and present them in [...]
Koi Pond
A pretty cute holiday specific theme for the Koi Pond iPhone app! I didn’t see it coming because I don’t typically check back the iTMS pages for the apps I have on the phone and then a week ago I batch-installed two dozen updates for various apps without checking what was included in them, [...]
iTunes Genius Thoughts
Some thoughts on the new iTunes Genius feature:
If there are tracks that the Genius feature is never going to select, I’d like to know.
I’ve got tracks that I’d like to avoid in certain company but there is no way to limit the tracks it selects from.
Similarly it would be nice to not select tracks I [...]
Bliss
That was so completely worth it. After nearly two years of putting up with an overly warm/hot laptop even after using the Fan Control software that lets the fans kick in faster/earlier than Apple would do by default, I gave in and bought what Belkin calls a CushTop.
During the cooler months when I wear [...]
Note to self
When upgrading the kernel to a newer or different version, be sure to also get the appropriate version of the ivtv kernel modules, otherwise MythTV will cheerfully start up and pretend nothing is wrong, but meanwhile it’ll be running with 0 capture cards and no recordings will be scheduled!
I’m glad ABC will repeat tonight’s Lost [...]
My new best friend
Is a Thunderbird extension called Nostalgy which gives me back a couple of things that I’d been missing ever since I switched away from Mutt, a host of keyboard shortcuts:
To change folder, move or copy messages, with folder name auto-completion.
To change focus to the folder, thread, or message panes.
To hide/show the folder pane.
And there [...]
Update
A bit embarrassing that the first update of the year is in February, but so be it.
Since the last post I’ve had my share of fun. Aside from the usual social obligations around the holidays we were also kept busy for a week in early December by the fall-out after an ice storm that [...]