Vermyndax on April 17th, 2007

Some of you who may be hitting the front page of Galaxycow (www.galaxycow.com) may have noticed that there’s a basic site up there with the ability to register. This shouldn’t surprise you.
I’ve been wanting to grow Galaxycow for some time, but I didn’t have a focus. I’m starting to develop one based around [...]

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Vermyndax on April 17th, 2007

So, I’m thinking about doing a podcast about interesting IT jobs… not just IT jobs, but IT jobs of soldiers in the field at interesting companies.
I’ve had to fortune in my career to meet some interesting characters at large companies - characters that deserve some recognition and deserve to be heard. I’ve already lined [...]

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Vermyndax on April 17th, 2007

So this morning, I decided to try to get to the bottom of what causes iChat AV to fail with my router. I was testing with my stepfather who also has a WRT54GS router (by Linksys).
I read on the Apple site that some routers break when using UPnP, but in general, they have a [...]

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Vermyndax on April 12th, 2007

I was pretty depressed to hear that Apple went ahead and proclaimed October as the month of Leopard. I was really hoping for June, but alas… I can understand if they need time.
I was listening to Macbreak Weekly tonight while exercising and I listened to the panel bring up the merits of the 8-core [...]

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Vermyndax on April 12th, 2007

Apparently, I should listen to podcasts more often.
Time: 29:05
Calories cannibalized: 230
Method: XLGlider

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Vermyndax on April 11th, 2007

I’m just now starting to get into the powerful hacks that OS X offers via Automator and Applescript, but I just ran across this one that is just so sexy it’s not even funny.

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Vermyndax on April 11th, 2007

There’s plenty of positive Apple spin to go around these days. It seems like every day that I look, there are prominent Windows journalists making the switch to Mac and encouraging others to do so. There’s a “vibe” in the air of change. Windows news sites that I frequent daily have not [...]

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Vermyndax on April 10th, 2007

Time: 23:34
Calories decimated: 190.8
Method: XLGlider
I should also point out that during teleconferences today, I walked around my desk and lifted the dumbells about 100 times to keep moving.
It’s catching up to me though.

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Vermyndax on April 9th, 2007

Time: 26:05
Calories destroyed: 222.2
Method: XLGlider
Surprise, Jennifer!

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Vermyndax on April 9th, 2007

Hands off the delegates tab
So, in the last entry I mentioned that a lot of people use the delegation feature in Exchange when their workflow and business processes could benefit from the use of sharing permissions instead. Why would it be useful for you to implement this workaround? Let’s clarify a little bit.
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