Entries tagged "os x"

MacBook Woes

Posted on Jun 20, 2007 - 7:46 PM Comments (0)

After years of defending Apple products, my 6 month old MacBook has decided to take a dump on me. Take that last part any way you please... Anything for humor. Anyways, the battery would no longer charge. The status light on the magna plug no longer gave any indication either. No more amber or green colors for me to let me know what the hell was going on! I tried resetting the "PMU" as well as some other tricks, but nothing worked.

In the end, the Genius at the Genius Bar took a shot and got no further than I ...

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Mac Mini iRouters!

Posted on May 4, 2007 - 10 AM Comments (0)

I stumbled across a pretty clever use of Mac Mini's today. There is a pair of mini's being used as redundant BGP4 routers on the London INternet eXchange (LINX), by the Fubra network. They apparently installed Ubuntu Linux and used the Quagga Routing Suite for the BGP communications.

The mini's were perfect as they are very compact and draw very little power. Apparently, London data centers have power shortages *shrugs*

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OS X: Safari or Firefox

Posted on Feb 10, 2007 - 10:49 AM Comments (0)

For as long as I have been using OS X, about 4 years, I have always used Safari. I never had many complaints with the browser and it is very fast! Recently I have been annoyed with Safari not rendering certain pages correctly. I know that Safari is W3C compliant and the real issue is the code used on the page in question, but still it can be annoying.

Many of my friends are suggesting Firefox. While I am no stranger to Firefox on the PC or even *nix (FreeBSD, Linux) I have yet to try it on OS X ...

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Using Ecto

Posted on Feb 6, 2007 - 12:48 PM Comments (0)

So as part of my move to Serendipity I decided to try using some desktop clients to make managing this thing easier. I tried a few clients and it came down to either Mars Edit or Ecto. Since I use OS X my choices were a little limited. Luckily, both these clients are some of the best around and both have OS X versions. Both clients were feature filled and easy to use. In the end I chose Ecto, mainly because it is recommended by Joichi Ito. I met Joi at the ICANN meeting in Wellington, New Zealand and read ...

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