Gem 1.1 released
Bug fixes, speedups. More details on Eric Hodel's blog. Update with sudo gem update --systemHave GNU, Will Travel.
View ArticleTracks
Tracks is a GPL Rails application to help implement David Allen's "Getting Things Done".I've installed it on my MBP and it looks great so far. You can tag tasks (and view only tasks for one tag), set...
View ArticleNew Blog
My friend Jack is, among other things, a technical author. He's just set up a new site for his technology writing at http://jackherrington.com.His latest book is on Flex, and is being published by...
View ArticleRun Ruby Script Automator Action
Jason Foreman published an Automator action that allows you to take advantage of Cocoa in Ruby scripts on his blog.Have GNU, Will Travel.
View ArticleNegadon and Miroku
If you're a fan of Godzilla and/or giant robot movies, you'll like this. All the feel of the 60s movies, but done with CGI.Negadon and Miroku.Have GNU, Will Travel.
View ArticleUpdating gem to 1.3 on OS X Leopard
wincent.com has a clear set of instructions on how to deal with errors updating gem to 1.3.0 on OS X.Have GNU, Will Travel.
View ArticleThin 1.0 is out
Marc André Cournoyer announced the release of Thin 1.0 on his blog last week.Have GNU, Will Travel.
View ArticleNew MacBook and MacBookPros
So, new hardware. On the pro side, the hard drive is no longer an ordeal to swap out, which is great for those of us in the enterprise. On the down side, no more target disk mode, which was always one...
View ArticlePhoto of another solar system
Discover has an article about the first photo of another solar system. Not just a planet, multiple planets. Way cool.Thanks to my friend Morf for the heads up.Have GNU, Will Travel.
View ArticleNew disk image tests
I got permission to release the changes I've made at work to the run_image_tests.py disk image test framework that Nigel Kersten originally wrote (thanks Chris, for pushing them into svn for me) along...
View ArticleSiracusa on Snow Leopard
John has his as usual excellent technical overview of Snow Leopard on Ars Technica.Have GNU, Will Travel.
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So this is what a 50mm f1.8 looks like inside...
I would have been quite happy without finding out exactly what my 50mm f1.8 looks like inside.I was going through airport security in San Jose on my way to visit family in Chicago and TSA had to hand...
View ArticleKnown photoshop & lightroom issues with 10.6
Adobe posted a tech note about 10.6 known issues here.Have GNU, Will Travel.
View ArticleArs Technica on Grand Central and Linux
Ars Technica notes on integrating Apple's Grand Central into Linux are here.Have GNU, Will Travel.
View ArticleReleased the Luggage
I've been rewriting a tool I originally wrote when I was at Google that allows you to generate an OS X pkg file using a Makefile without using PackageMaker.app's gui at all. At Google we used the...
View ArticleLosing ZFS
Luis Gerbarg has an interesting article with his thoughts about the reasons behind the absence of ZFS in 10.6 on his blog at http://devwhy.blogspot.com/2009/10/loss-of-zfs.html.Here's hoping that he's...
View ArticleLuggage 1.0rc2 released
Synced my latest changes to the Luggage. Detailed documentation here.1.0rc2 includesFixed broken unarchive step in unbz2-applications & ungz-applications rulesAdded recipe to install Ruby scripts...
View ArticleReleasing some of my OS X administrative utility scripts
I decided to release some code I've been using at work to manage our Macintoshes.All the code is downloadable at http://github.com/unixorn/osxtoolkitCurrently osxtoolkit includes:A puppet fact script...
View ArticleRead knob files with facter for puppet
I found myself recently writing yet another fact to read the contents of a knob file, so I generalized one to read all the files found in /etc/knobs and return the contents as facts named after the...
View ArticleEasy Script-Only Packages with the Luggage
Saw a post today on MacEnterprise from someone looking for an easy way of making a package that doesn't install any files, just runs a script during installation. Payloadless packages are quite easy to...
View ArticleAutomate removing Diginotar CA certificate
Ed Marczak posted how to delete the untrustworthy Diginotar CA cert on his blog. Read about why you want to trash it at ComputerWeekly.com.To make it easier for you to do the right thing and delete it...
View ArticleWeird Lion audio issue with headphones
My wife was having a weird audio problem on 10.7.2 - she'd be listening to iTunes, plug in her headphones, then get silence. Restarting iTunes would make the audio work on the headphones, but then if...
View ArticleCreative Suite 5.5 refuses to accept a serial number to end trial mode
My wife recently upgraded to a MacBook Air, and when I went to install CS 5.5 on the MBA it accepted the serial number during installation but then would bring up the Adobe Application Manager screen...
View ArticleAutomate manifest distribution to masterless puppet clients from an S3 bucket
At Ooyala, I managed our Macintosh fleet with puppet. The problem we ran into is that we have users in remote locations rarely need to connect to the VPN, and when their machines aren't on the VPN or...
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