FreeBSD 8 -> 9 upgrade, manually
Figured this weekend would be a good weekend to do the update to my main system. After some quick investigative work, I decided to take the path of least resistance.
Sun’s Project Blackbox – where are you now?
I loved this idea back in 2006 and snagged a few of the pics from Sun during their marketing of the project. I have included links to other sites and my Google image search query. So, what happened to this project? I know Google and others are now using this same base idea for their [...]
Mac OS X Lion resizes Terminal.app windows
I’m not alone with this annoyance based on my few talks with other people and some internet findings. Why does Lion keep resizing my horizontal window settings for Terminal.app? It is driving me insane. Here’s the deal – I have 6 windows in my default group and all of them are 80 columns wide and [...]
iOS 5 can’t come soon enough!
While the NDA is in place I can’t talk about the details but I am very excited for this to hit GM. The new features and updates are a very welcome change. Lots of “fun” coming, lots of usability improvements, and very stable. I’m hoping the rumors are true and Apple announces this the first [...]
Mac Pro vs Newegg special
Over at troll-haven Tech-Seeker, the author posted a completely incorrect comparison between buying a PC and a Mac Pro without any real apples to apples comparisons in the hardware. Besides the complete failure to match up the systems, the hardware chosen is woefully out of date. Apple hasn’t sold a 24″ display in a long [...]