MacDork :)

I spent the entire evening trying to make a backup of my boot partition (note the emphasis on “tryingâ€?, as I never managed to get it done). My first three attempts were through Carbon Copy Cloner — each time ended in a kernel panic.  I didn’t catch where it happened during the first one, but the next two were when it was in either the /Library or /System directories (I.. Read More

When I originally formatted the drive in my Powerbook, I was still in the “oldâ€? mind-set of having a spare partition around just to have an extra OS available to boot from in the event my primary failed for some reason. It’s been two years (jeez:  have I been using this 17“ *that* long?) now, and having never had a major problem w/ OS X, I think I’m ready to.. Read More

I spent most of my free time in the last four days setting up a new mail server for myself.  The old one, you see, decided that it’d had enough.  I can’t be too upset, considering it’d been running on an old IBM ThinkPad for about three years straight.

This is just insane….. Google’s RideFinder keeps track of where the city’s cabs are and puts them on a Google Map (you DID know about Google Maps, right?). I’m still not sure how useful this is, but I suppose it’d be nice to know who to call just as you’re walking out the door of your office, or something, but as a regular joe, wandering around town, you’re not likely.. Read More

Not that it’s a bad thing, but it’s at least consistent.  I read this article today talking about how IBM are offering trial licenses for pre-installed VMWare servers w/ the purchase of their blade servers.  I think it’s a decent-enough idea:  as an advocate of VMWare’s products, I think they’re on to something.  Once you start using them, you’ll see just how far ahead of the market that they are… Read More