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Debian, Leopard and AFP

Tim — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:01:47 +0000

Debian 5.0.0 was released this past weekend and I thought, what better time to sit down for a few minutes and re-install my basement Debian server. As usual, everything went swimmingly and I was mostly done the install rather quickly (as opposed to the WinXP install I’m doing now, but that’s another story). I did [...]

ReadyNAS NV+, Seagate Firmware Update Take 1

Tim — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:50:27 +0000

If you have ever heard of Seagate (the hard drive manufacturer), then you surely know that last month they had a flurry of hard drive failures in their popular 7200.11 line of hard drives. After a couple of PR snafus, Seagate finally got their act together and issued firmware and update instructions for the affected [...]

Links for February 2nd through February 3rd

Tim — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:01:52 +0000

These are my links for February 2nd through February 3rd

Tweets for 2009-01-30

Tim — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:10:03 +0000

RT @cnetnews “Mac tidbits: 17-inch MacBook Pro shipping, new iMacs soon? http://tinyurl.com/d9sysl” Mmmm… new iMacs… 14:54:54 The Escapist: an ok movie. Not a bad way to spend nap time. http://tinyurl.com/cd9skz 14:51:19 Google Maps strikes again. http://tinyurl.com/c9bxnd 14:41:52 Another reason to get an iPhone… Air Mouse. Very cool. http://tinyurl.com/6pjamb 10:04:23 Passport office was surprisingly quick to [...]

Links for January 29th through January 30th

Tim — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:10:03 +0000

These are my links for January 29th through January 30th

Links for January 24th through January 28th

Tim — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:03:39 +0000

These are my links for January 24th through January 28th

Logitech Control Center is Garbage

Tim — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:45:10 +0000

Ever since I bought a Logitech mouse for my wife’s new MacBook Pro, we were getting kernel panics every couple of weeks (yes, the BSOD of OSX does exist). Suffice to say I was none too impress with Apple. Turns out, not their fault. I stumbled upon this thread which indicates tha Logitech Control Center [...]

YupNope

Tim — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:30:51 +0000

Blogging seems to have fallen down on the list of things I need to do, so as a result it has been a while since I’ve posted anything. One of the things I’ve been working on instead of keeping the interweb buzzing with my keen insight and immaculate prose is working on a new website. [...]

Vista a Spectacular Failure?

Tim — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:41:52 +0000

I haven’t even run Vista. Even though I’m a developer and make my living off Windows application development, I am frankly just not an OS tire kicker. I didn’t buy a Mac until Tiger came out, I still run the stable (_sometimes_ the testing) release of Debian and I haven’t tried Ubuntu as a possible [...]

Shuffle Kafuffle

Tim — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:33:11 +0000

I got me an iPod Shuffle about five months ago and up until early last week I was loving it. It is small, convenient, and makes yard work, commuting, and walking the dogs a little more interesting. However last Monday my shuffle decided to die on me. It started showing signs of the infamous orange [...]