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Monthly Archives: July 2004

itunes sharing (3).

by Rob Friesel

Still more on this issue with iTunes… This time zero’ing in on — SURPRISE!! — not the network but something about that particular version iTunes (4.6.0.15). Observed last night that not only can the iTunes library on Detonator-3 not get shared to the other clients, it can’t seem to connect to the iTunes Music Store. […]

itunes sharing (2).

by Rob Friesel

Following up on my post from 7-11 about the woes of iTunes sharing over the home LAN… First off, I have not changed the configuration of said LAN. I’m convinced that I’ve got this “right” and that there’s just some minor point that I’ve overlooked. Or else some overzealous default security settings…? I’m leaning toward […]

confessions of a wannabe sysadmin.

by Rob Friesel

Meditating here on trying to finish up this network set up esp. w/r/t/ getting the wired and wireless networks properly bridged. I’d tried a couple of configurations and have ultimately decided on the below: According to my sources (chiefly, Apple’s …for OS X (PDF) and …for Windows (PDF) Airport network design manuals), the above is […]

Konfabulicious.

by Rob Friesel

To follow up on my Konfabulator post from late May… And while I’m a little late on this: Daring Fireball’s ‘Dashboard vs. Konfabulator’. As I said before, I liked the idea behind Konfabulator but I had a few issues with it. I liked how the widgets looked. I didn’t like how cluttered they seemed to […]

CDDB.

by Rob Friesel

Neat article on Wired about Gracenote. My favorite part: ‘If every user of an iPod had to take their CD collection and hand-type everything in, how many iPods would really get sold?’ said Gracenote CEO Craig Palmer. ‘If they couldn’t do that, then how big would this market actually be?’ While I must admit that […]

still dark.

by Rob Friesel

Still no DSL… At least we got the kit with the modem and stuff. *le sigh* Did get the AirPort netork set up at the new house. That’s going well. Some weird quirks (e.g., not being able to file share to/from the PCs connected via Ethernet but being able to share their iTunes libraries? Poor […]