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Out on a limb: Why the Yahoo! Fiasco is Good for Yahoo!

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

OK, let me just start by saying my confidence in what I am about to say is just over 50%, say 50.1%, but I’m going to say it anyway:
I can’t help but wonder if all these execs leaving Y! is a good thing.  Seriously.  Where have they gotten Y! to date?  Time for some fresh [...]

Change backup frequency of Time Machine? - The Apple Blog Community

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Change backup frequency of Time Machine? - The Apple Blog Community
Ah, very useful.  For me, Time Machine was taking more time to prepare the backup then it had (30 -40 minutes sometimes) and it was also chewing up the CPU pretty good, so I turned down the frequency of the backups (2 hours instead of [...]

Java on Mac OS X Leopard

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Java on Mac OS X Leopard
Nice directions on how to enable 64-bit mode in Java 1.5 on Leopard.

Apple - Support - Downloads - Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Apple - Support - Downloads - Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1
Better late than never, I guess.  As much fun as people make of Ballmer for “Developers, Developers, Developers“, he has it right.  Your computer and Operating System is only going to be as good as the software that 3rd party vendors (i.e. [...]

Sigh — Windows Vista

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Dang.  Had to buy a copy of Windows Vista today so I can test on it (don’t worry, I won’t develop on it).  The whole purchase makes me feel like a criminal, and I did everything right, what with all the anti-piracy “protections” and the phone home effects.
And then there is the whole question of [...]

OS X (Leopard) Secure Screen Sharing

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Took me a few minutes, but I was able to get OS X new Screen Sharing (dressed up VNC) to tunnel over SSH.  Here’s what I did:
In Terminal:

Tunnel to the machine you want to connect to:  ssh -L 2200:localhost:5900 myuser@mymachine.com
In Firefox (or Safari, etc.): vnc://localhost:2200
That command will launch the Screen Sharing app.  Enter your password, [...]