I’ve been playing with Leopard over the last couple of days and just now figured out how to get Time Machine to work with unsupported shared drives (such as those shared by netatalk). defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 What this seems to do is to create a sparse disk image on the shared drive, then […]
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YES!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!
I just heard from the guys at the Apple repair place I sent my G5 to and it looks like Apple will fix the coolant leak under warranty 😀 The most excellent news I’ve had all day 🙂
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
It looks like my main development machine (an Apple G5 2.5 GHz DP with 4 Gb of RAM) has a coolant leak 🙁 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’ve taken it in to a service center, but of course the machine is no longer covered by AppleCare 🙁 Apparently this is a fairly common fault on the liquid cooled […]
I’m back :)
In the end I wasn’t offline for very long thanks to the great guys at Internode 🙂 A total of 5 days in all off line. In the mean time lots of interesting stuff has been happening. Firstly I’m in the trailer for the Melbourne Internation Film Festival. Secondly and more imporantly there is the […]
Net access
I’m going to be off the net for the next couple of weeks 🙁<vader class=“starwars-episode-three, padme-is-dead”>NOOOOOOOOOOOO!</vader>We’re moving into our new house in a couple of days and since the previous owners moved their phone to a rival phone provider it is going to take at least 10 days to get it all sorted out again. […]
ccTrayRb is now a rubyforge project
My first rubyforge project 🙂Go to http://rubyforge.org/projects/cctrayrb/ for the latest version of ccTrayRb from now on.
Cocoa WebKit
I’ve been playing with the Cocoa WebKit over the last week or so and have rewritten my blogThing application to use it. So far I’m quite pleased with the way things are coming along 🙂It lets me do some very interesting things such as paste in formatted text from XCode//// DPKeychain.h// iSpeak//// Created by Daniel […]
CruiseControlRb tray icon for Linux
We installed CruiseControlRb at work recently and we’re all really enjoying it 🙂 The web interface works really nicely, but I wanted more. Under Windows there is a really neat little tool called cctray which shows the status of your build in the system tray. I did a bit of searching about the net and […]
mmkeys plugin v0.2 for Songbird
I’ve made a small change to the plugin which fixes a problem where Songbird would crash on startup when this plugin was installed on a machine where the multimedia keys were not available. mmkeys 0.2 source mmkeys 0.2 plugin
ASP.Net blows chunks
Really big nasty chunks! I guess I’ve been spoilt by working with rails, and to be fair it’s not really ASP.Net I don’t like, it’s ADO.Net. I mean really, who wants to write 12 lines of code to fill a grid with data from a database! 1. construct a new SqlConnection object 2. construct a new SqlCommand […]