So Apple finally releases Java SE 6 for the Mac, with its huge speed improvements, and now I can’t edit any single input field on either of the Java applications I use (including Moneydance and IntelliJ IDEA) because the fields show up greyed-out and are read-only. No, rebooting did not help. Seems I have to […]
I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so […]
Speaking of which, I’m keeping a development blog at my company site. I’ll continue to publish the Grails plugins and any other code I create over there. Enjoy!
Thunderbird kept crashing on me on Leopard, at least three out of four times that I launched it. At first I thought it was Enigmail, because it seemed that the crash was if I attempted to view an encrypted message while it was still loading mail from the servers, but testing that hypothesis revealed it […]
VMware server has been in beta since November, 2007, and you can try it out for free by going to their site. Don’t. It’s unstable and has performance problems - I had to manually reboot our machine at least twice a week because the virtual servers became unresponsive. I originally thought that […]
If you’re using CentOS hosts on a VMWare server, you should read this.
I’m reading Matt Mason’s The Pirate’s Dilemma, one of those hip this-changes-everything books, this time detailing how remix culture and digital technology is forcing the market to either adapt and compete with those it labels as pirates for modifying their intellecutual property, or die attempting to fight a distributed, faceless enemy that in many cases […]
I’ve just received my copy of the Leopard upgrade, and while it has significant improvements (the storage format for FileVault is more compact and easier to backup, Time Machine), it’s given me significant grief. Here are some tips:
Back up everything first. Use an external disk, DVD or something equally accessible.
If you’re using FileVault, […]
I was reading up about Amazon’s e-book reader Kindle (how could I not, with it being both a new toy and book related!) and ran on an interesting bit on a review:
Kindle gives you access to an experimental and free service called Kindle NowNow, which is a search engine powered by […]
It seems that somebody has finally met the criteria necessary to win the notMac challenge, which was meant to create a free and open source replacement for Apple’s .mac service. According to the SourceForge page the server is OS neutral, but I’ve yet to find instructions on how to set it up on anything […]