Just now, the rest of the parts arrived, that is four 500 Gb drives and 4 x 2 Gb RAM, all from OWC. I was a bit impatient and forgot to snap pictures of it before putting it into the box. But you all know how hard drives and RAM looks, right? Except this particular [...]

Some stuff arrived today as expected. Other stuff did not. The stuff that did arrive was the Mac Pro itself with the displays. The stuff from OWC seems to be still in Indiana somewhere. According to Fedex tracking, it will be here next week tuesday.
The post office truck arrived with three boxes. One big and [...]

As I already told you about in my previous blogentry, I need to replace my iMac 2 Gb with something heftier.
So the solution is to get a new Mac that allows me a lot more RAM and a number of internal fast diskchannels. If I can place the Parallels images on one or two secondary [...]

Way back, I developed under Windows, starting from nothing (v 1.03) and going all the way up to XP. Then I drifted into OSX. Recently I drifted back, but not all the way. Currently I’m developing for Windows XP on my iMac, and this is how it looks:

As you can see, I’m running two instances [...]

Place: Windows XP SP2. Event: I’m opening “My Computer”, selecting a mapped folder on my in-house NAS, rightclick one of the backup files I have there, intending to copy it, and I get this popup:

Now, it’s a backup file, not “a page”. I’m not even surfing the net here. How can the file  have “an [...]