I’m totally amazed at all the things Preview does in OSX Snow Leopard. I already use it for knocking out backgrounds, using the “Instant Alpha” tool in the “Select” dropdown. But what happened today is more interesting. To my everlasting regret I got me a Canon Lide 60 scanner a couple of years ago. Canon’s [...]

I have a Juniper SSG-5 and the school I’m doing the network setup for also got one identical unit on my recommendation. I wanted to set up a fixed VPN between the two but failed miserably, so I logged a support request with Juniper on my machine, which is still in warranty but without any [...]

We’re always complaining about stuff not working, but I just want to say how happy I’ve been, and still am, with our HP Laserjet 2300 DTN. Sounds like a commercial, doesn’t it? Anyway, as I replaced the drum today, I checked the numbers. We got it in the summer of 2003 and it’s never failed [...]

Oh, wow, this was crazy. What I needed to get done is to have a Juniper SSG-5 firewall (which runs Netscreen OS 6.2) authenticate users from the FreeRadius server that runs by default in OSX Snow Leopard server (10.6.3). And I needed the SSG-5 to differentiate depending on groups on Open Directory on the OSX. [...]

In my current upgrading of my local net, and in anticipation of my new ISP business account, which gives me a /28 segment of public IPs (16 adresses, of which 13 useable), I had to get VLAN capable switches to replace the cheapo Netgear Gigabit dumb switches I had. That way I can place my [...]

I got me that brand new Apple Mini with Snow Leopard OSX Server unlimited edition included. This is such an adorable machine, you wouldn’t believe it. It has everything you can wish for in a server, as far as I can make out after just a couple of hours with it. It’s super easy to [...]

I have two ReadyNAS NV+ units from Netgear and I’ve put them in a backroom where nobody normally goes. I don’t either. Now, for extra security in case of fire or a break-in, I’m actually moving them to a neighbor’s spare room, which means I can’t easily get at them anymore and the energy consumption [...]

I’ve got this Wacom Intuos 3 tablet and I like it. The mouse, in particular, is very nice. Good feeling. As long as it works. The problem I’ve had is that my first mouse started to give switch bounce on the left button, and a problem with the scroll wheel, after about 16 months. Out [...]