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Category Archives: Mac

Often tied in with other tech or code posts; Apple/Mac/iOS speculations, hacks, and other errata.

the hacks so far.

by Rob Friesel

O! KetelOne how thou art full of surprises! First we had all those fun experiments with VNC. Using osxvnc to talk to KetelOne from Detonator-3 (using win2vnc to do the talking. Or was that after we had osx2x up and to pass command to Detonator-3 (runnng winvnc to accept connections…) And there’s always vncViewer to […]

pop quiz.

by Rob Friesel

A question posed particularly for the Mac-using folks but as this is a (sort of) public forum, consider it answer solicitation from all: What email client are you using? How satisfied with it are you? fine print: I’m using Mail.app lately … not sure if I’m digging it all that much or not. A recent […]

3 in 1.

by Rob Friesel

iPods, iTunes, iReal? iCarumba… RealNetworks is offering an alliance with Apple … probably after hearing about Apple is selling more iPods than Macs. Which shouldn’t really come as any surprise, I guess. What’s going to be really interesting in the next couple of months is seeing which avenue the company chases with more fervor and/or […]

link-up.

by Rob Friesel

Let’s take a moment to reflect on cool things such as Aiwa’s mp3 recorder headphones. I know I mentioned recently that I got Resin up and running on KetelOne and that I was even able to get it and Apache talking. For this, I am proud. Now if I only had the extra 30 minutes […]

Tuesday eve round-up.

by Rob Friesel

Sitting here waiting for the support on-call cell to ring and getting nothing. Can’t complain about that — though it does bring me back around to thinking about how the service is sketchy out here at best. So where have we been poking our noses lately? The miracles of SCIENCE! Rabbit penis grown in a […]

long and short.

by Rob Friesel

THE WEEKEND ROOOOOOOOOOOUND-UP! … in all its glory? Much to be b’gock’d about. (1) Got Resin working on KetelOne this weekend. Step in the right direction. Now I just need to figure out how to make it talk to Apache (and vice versa). And convince it to recognize the Xalan jar sitting in its lib […]

the other shoe?

by Rob Friesel

(via cnet…) Apple told to halt ‘world’s fastest’ claims for G5 To Dell: You’re just jealous because you weren’t ballsy enough to use that as your ad slogan. Oh, and where is your 64-bit non-workstation PC line? To consumers: If you’re not reading benchmarks, you’re not researching. If you’re not researching, you don’t need “the […]

blamo!

by Rob Friesel

You see, file-sharing can kill: According to law officers, Mathers was hysterical when police arrived and told them that she killed her boyfriend only after he accused her of illegally downloading music and erased about 2,000 of her MP3s. Mathers complained that it took 3 months to build her music collection. But hey, it’s a […]

VileFault.

by Rob Friesel

After a few months of flirting w/ Apple’s implementation of the AES-128 encryption scheme (a.k.a. FileVault), I have decided to disable it and wait for the next release. Despite all of my paranoia and desire to keep assorted docs and records as secure as possible, it has req’d too many jumped hoops, headaches, hacks, kludges, […]