Backups
It was once common for newspapers to reprint an important article from time to time. Of course, this was before Google and in those days it wasn’t all that easy… Read more »
Category: Apple / OSX
New Chrome beta for Mac
The latest Google chrome browser beta is making me rethink my ‘default browser’ choice. Â Two reasons: 1) The new V8 javascript engine is very quick. Â In fact, it wins this… Read more »
MarsEdit 3.0
This is just a short post…really nothing more than an excuse to try out the latest version of my blog editor of preference:Â MarsEdit 3.0. Released today, MarsEdit 3 adds several… Read more »
OCR, Image/Text PDFs and the Mac
This week I’ve been staring at a collection of just over 29,000 PDFs. Image-only copies of thousands of documents created with “..the software that came with the scanner.” My task?… Read more »
Javascript speed
I’ve long thought that if you wanted the fastest browser experience on a Mac, you went with the nightly Webkit build from http://nightly.webkit.org/. So I was surprised today when I… Read more »
Fix it till it breaks – into 64 bits
I like to fix things till they break. Today’s post is a cautionary tale for that admittedly small niche of sysadmins running OSX server on XServes upgraded in place from… Read more »
MARS update (final)
Completed upgrading the new MARS (DSpace) server to from 10.5.8 to 10.6 (Snow Leopard Server). Went very smoothly. Here’s the sequence: run SuperDuper to clone boot drive to second drive… Read more »
Catching Up
Yes, those are in fact cobwebs hanging from the corners. It’s not that I’ve been too busy to write something, just distracted, I guess. Vacation…a few other short trips…couple of… Read more »
APC / OSX update (10.5 server)
Some time back I posted a few notes on using APC (Alternative PHP Cache) on a BSD-based system. The important idea then was to increase the size of the shared… Read more »
Catching Up
A few quick items to help bring things up to date: Netbook Experiment Had an idea the other day that instead of purchasing regular size notebooks for staff loaners (machines… Read more »