Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
Technically, automation actually broke the day first, but if it weren’t for the automation and backups, I would have been in a world of hurt. Let me explain. I currently have a Docker Swarm consisting of 6 Ubuntu server VMs spread over 2 physical Dell servers. This is my “production” cluster that run things that … Read more
I’ve been a geek for the vast majority of my life. My family got our first computer when I was 13 (a Commodore 64 to date myself). I started my “programming” journey by typing in pages and pages of code from the C64 magazine. Along the way I learned how to debug what I’d typed … Read more
For the last few months, I’ve had this idea that I wanted to try a linux desktop machine as my main development computer for a while. With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 in April, I decided to put together a machine and give it a try. Unfortunately, I had to wait a while in order … Read more
I try really hard to be an Apple fan-boy…I really do. I love my Macbook Pro, really like my Mac Mini and adore OS X. I even like my AppleTV units pretty well (a little less with the new GUI, but that’s another story). BUT, I’m really starting to take a very negative view of … Read more
I absolutely love Time Machine with Time Capsule! Time Machine by itself was cool enough when I was using it with an external drive on my desk. The only problem with that scenario is that everyone in our house had to have their own external drives for backup. I have a MacBook Pro, we have … Read more
Ok, so maybe that’s stretching it a little bit. BUT, one year ago today I took delivery of my new Apple Macbook Pro. I continue to be just as impressed with it now as I was the day I wrote the first blog post about it. Looking back, it doesn’t seem like it’s been a … Read more
…that I made the choice to convert to the Mac platform so as to avoid having to deal with Vista! My Mom had to get a new machine this week after the processor on her old one went out. Of course it came with Vista and, after a couple of days of futzing about with … Read more
Well, I’ve been “experiencing” Mac OS 10.5 Leopard for about 48 hours now. After waiting so long and having this operating system so hyped up, I have to admit my reaction so far is somewhat mixed. My “experience” started off somewhat rocky. I attempted to do an in-place upgrade in order to keep all my … Read more
Earlier this summer when someone told me that you could hook two Macs together with a firewire cable, boot one up while holding down the “T” button and access its drive from the other like any other external firewire drive, I never actually thought I’d use it. Today, while working on one of my daughters’ … Read more
Apple announced this morning that the new version of OS X (Leopard) will be released on October 26th at 6:00pm. I for one can’t wait to get my hands on the new version (so much so that I’m pre-ordering the family pack today). I’ve been a huge fan of OS X since I made the … Read more