I was just reading photomatt.net and realized that Automattic has acquired Gravatar. I stopped using the Gravatar service when Bork wrote “MyBlogLog” support into his Sexy Comments plugin because it was unreliable and only served up avatars about half the time.
I immediatly switched back to Gravatar upon realizing that Automattic had acquired it, and found [...]
I’ve just finished upgrading my Mac Mini to OSX 10.5, and I have to say, the upgrade could not be simpler. While it did take slightly over an hour to complete, there were fewer than 10 clicks throughout the entire upgrade process, so I can’t imagine how anyone could mung it up. The one detail [...]
I’ve just returned from EMC training in MA, where we learned a wealth of information about how to use the array, but also some interesting background information about the device itself.
First, the name CLARiiON has some interesting history. Before EMC was EMC, it was Data General, who had a 16-bit minicomputer called the NOVA. DG [...]
I was trying to talk Justin into getting a set of steel tanks so that he could band them together when we got onto the subject of how scuba tanks are made. He mentioned some videos of the process he had found, and sent them along to me. It’s really a pretty amazing process. Especially [...]
Most Mac users simply access network printers using LPR, but occasionally, you will need to interact with networks that are unfriendly to this method and find yourself having to use SMB printing. It’s a little inconvenient, but overall pretty easy to configure. I found some great instructions here. The method varies depending on which version [...]
I managed to corrupt my NetInfo database on an OS 10.4 server a few weeks ago by not cleanly unmounting the drive after booting from DVD and resetting the admin password. Long story short, this left me with no users on the system at all. With no users, I could not log in to create [...]
