I’ve downloaded and installed Mountain Lion (10.8) on several machines now, but I never paid for it. No, I didn’t pirate it, I got it from the App store, but it never gave me a chance to pay. Looking up the transaction in the App store via iTunes, I see this: In other words, I [...]

Today I noticed the RAID utility icon in the dock and I couldn’t remember having started it. Weird. Clicked on it and this is what I see: (Click the image for full size.) Oh, sh*t, a drive just died. “Just” died? No, not really, it died a week ago, and I didn’t notice. That’s not [...]

With the new iBooks and iTunes U app, I’m missing a piece of the puzzle. Just as truckloads of schools have given the kids MacBooks, Apple rolls out the new textbooks to iPads only. Are we supposed to switch over the schoolkids to iPads now, and lose the OSX apps they use? It would seem [...]

Once I got tftp working on IPv4, I still couldn’t get the Macbook client to download the boot or image files. Wireshark showed that the client didn’t get any file when it sent “acknowledge data block 0″. Nothing. So I installed tftp-hpa from Macports, hoping that would solve my problem, which it didn’t. But a [...]

The very first thing you should always do on your new Mac is to make sure you run as non-admin. This protects you against most malware out on the net, since it makes it very difficult to install anything without you knowing about it. It doesn’t exclude it entirely, but it makes a major difference.

Just a heads-up: Macport quit working on my machine. Link errors, missing architecture in sqllite3 dynamic libs or something. After much agonizing, I began to suspect mono, especially since the sqllite3 library port wanted to link against was in the mono path. There’s a shell script in mono called uninstallMono.sh that does a fine job [...]

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 [...]

Oh, boy, this wasn’t easy. I’ve been trying for years to get my email life organized. The problem is this: I’ve got almost ten different email accounts I subscribe to tens of mailing lists I want mailing lists to be automatically moved to dedicated folders I want the same folder setup on different machines I [...]

The by now famous paragraph 3.3.1 in the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement for iPhone OS 4.0 says that “Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited”. Which, of course, ruins the day for Adobe and Flash CS5. The idea was to have Flash scripts run [...]

A friend just sent me this link to a blog entry that describes the return of GPG Mail to Snow Leopard 10.6.2: http://carlton.oriley.net/blog/?p=20 The link to the download is: http://carlton.oriley.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/GPGMail-1.2.1.mailbundle.zip And it works! Go get it.