Showing Network Volumes in the Sidebar
At work I have a user that really, really was having a hard time with Network Shares being moved to under Network in Leopard instead of showing up with the rest of the Volumes as they used to in Tiger. After a bit of digging around I found the following information but failed to figure […]
Tethering your iPhone : Experiences
Update: Nov. 17th, 2008 - PDANet 1.4.0 allows VPN access, however at first look it doesn’t work correctly with VPN Tracker 5. One of the biggest benefits of my iPhone that I’ve been waiting vainly to try was the ability to tether my iPhone to my laptop so I could access the net from anywhere […]
Interesting Feature of the Day: iTunes and iPhone
I stumbled across an interesting feature this morning - when you start a download from the App Store on your iPhone / iPod touch and then plug your phone into your computer before the download is finished iTunes will take over from where you left off and download all the applications you were downloading for […]
Venus T5 : Benchmarks (ZFS versus Hardware RAID)
After trying out ZFS on a handful of fitful USB keys I pulled out the AMS Venus T5 a 5 drive SATA RAID enclosure with an eSATA port for plugging into the computer. The Venus T5 was outfitted with 5 x 7200RPM 1TB Seagate Drives for the test. I was curious as to what the […]
Messing with USB Keys: ZFS Fun and Shenanigans
In the quest to sate my curiosity of the viability of ZFS for replacing hardware RAIDs I gathered a few extra USB keys that were lying around my office in hopes to see just how much of a difference in terms of numbers one can find between a single USB key, a software RAIDed set […]
LaunchBar Snippets
One of the very first programs I install on any machine I will be spending a good deal of time on is LaunchBar. I am a self confessed LaunchBar whore because of the amount of time it saves me from going down to the Dock or having to find the Applications folder to launch Applications […]
The Joyent Golden Ticket
I’m happy to report that I am now using the newer Shared Accelerators running on Open Solaris - I requested my Golden Ticket several days ago but only had time to do it tonight and thanks to the helpful migration guide I was all done migrating everything except a handful of abandoned subversion repositories (which […]