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Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…

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, […]

resin.

by Rob Friesel

After the Tomcat madness, we turn our ear to some folks from work and begin looking in to Resin as an alternative and perhaps better app server. I think I’ll need to jump in somewhere around 1.2 and run from there. Again… All this just to run XSL transforms on the server side. I have […]

DockFun!

by Rob Friesel

Via Tao of Mac: the DockFun! app is a nifty shareware app to manage, maintain, and otherwise rock-out w/ yr OSX dock(s). There’s a neat little Flash movie at the above link to show it off. After about 15 minutes of playing w/ it — it’s a neat toy. Possibly a powerful addition for anyone […]

RMA madness.

by Rob Friesel

*ahem* From my Western Digital RMA: All products accepted by Western Digital for RMA processing will not be returned to you. All data on hard drives will be wiped out. Please make sure to backup the data on your hard drive(s) before shipment. Please make sure to read and follow the shipping and packing guidelines […]

encrypted to a fault.

by Rob Friesel

F[ileV]ault. Love the concept. Hate the implementation. I’ve written a couple of times about my love/hate relationship with Panther’s FileVault feature. I love^3 the idea of being able to have all of my shit encrypted. Especially since the performance hit is soooooooo small. Some people have commented: “Well what do you need to encrypt though?” […]

‘grr…’

by Rob Friesel

When we lost saw our intrepid heroes, they were running audio cables through the wall to pipe iTunes through the main house speakers. The previous night, Detonator-3 had been making a strange sound. Nothing too abnormal, but the ol’ boxen was given the night off from crunching protein numbers and listening vainly on blocked ports. […]

more xsl ish.

by Rob Friesel

In brief: Overloaded at work again (so soon) is roughly equivalent to being unavailable for comment on much of anything. It felt great this weekend to blog a little about assorted things but guilt overwhelms when I think about what’s waiting for me 1st thing Monday a.m. *le sigh* HOWEVER (comma) renewed efforts on the […]