For some bizarre reason, the thought at the top of my head last night at bedtime was… “I wonder if sometimes… open source developers deliberately code bugs or withhold fixes for financial gain?”
If you don’t follow what I mean, here’s where I was: often times, large corporations or benefactors will offer a code fix bounty [...]
Apple’s Snow Leopard Server product is one lovely implementation of UNIX. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed using it for the power and simplicity that it offers. I’ve loved using Apple’s operating systems thanks to the combination of UNIX power and elegant design. Snow Leopard server is no exception to this rule.
The barrier to entry with Snow Leopard [...]
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For those of you who follow my adventures here, but not necessarily my adventures over there, you should be aware that we’ve posted NO CARRIER Episode #11. This episode is very special to my heart because it’s the first show we did in our new studio (Whitey is still over Skype though). I think the [...]
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One of the industry buzzwords that needs to go to the grave is the user “experience.”
Don’t quote me here, but I recall this buzzword being developed by Microsoft as part of the marketing campaign behind Windows XP. XP was supposed to be “experience” or “expert” or “Xtra stuPid marketing,” I’m [...]
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A coworker sent this along. I’ve had this issue on a few contacts and didn’t really have time to delve into it.
Name removed to protect the innocent and good intentions. Be very careful with this and make sure you have a backup of all data that you plan to manipulate.
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FWIW …
After serially using [...]
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If you’re having stupid amounts of trouble with your plugins loading in Safari 4 on Snow Leopard, go to your Finder and open /Applications. Right-click on the Safari app and choose “Get Info.” On that screen, you’ll see a checkbox to run the app in 32-bit mode.
Check that.
Restart Safari if it’s open.
Now you’ll find that [...]
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At WWDC 2009, I stood up in a session on Snow Leopard server and lightly rattled Apple’s cage about its poor scaling guidance for the product. They were spending a great deal of time talking about the benefits of Wiki Server 2, but there was little to take away from the session [...]
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When NetNewsWire went with Google Reader syncing, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. I swore off Google Reader quite some time ago. Indeed, I was using NNW to avoid Google Reader. Now I’m being forced back?
It was time to look into splitting up with NNW.
I haven’t used RSS support [...]
I’m back from WWDC 2009. What a wonderful time! Sorry I didn’t update much about it, I was just too busy with my head buried in all the Apple goodness. Oh my, do they have some good stuff in the pipe for you.
One of the greatest things about WWDC is the fabulous music they play [...]
Hi, just dropping in from raiding the lands of healthy heroes and creamy young virgins to let you in on a quick Apple Mail tip.
Do you use Apple Mail in an environment with Outlook? In particular, do those Outlook users prefer HTML mail? Do you receive mail from them with a microscopic font size?
Thanks to [...]
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