Computers Home Lab: Automation and Backups Save the Day When bad things happen in your infrastructure, having automated recovery tools and reliable backups can turn a major headache into a minor inconvenience.
Computers Why I HomeLab My motivation for operating a "personal cloud" environment at home and automating infrastructure deployments and configurations
Computers My Short Foray Into Linux on the Desktop 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
Rants Apple Mighty Mouse Rant 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
Computers Not to Sound Like an Apple “fan-boy” BUT… 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
Computers Today is the Anniversary of My Enlightenment 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
Computers What I'm Thankful for... ...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
Computers Leopard 48 Hours In 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
Computers Never Thought I'd Use It... 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
Computers Apple Announces Release Date for Leopard 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)
Computers Learn Something New Every Day! For you Mac gurus out there, this is going to sound like child's play. I finally took the time to figure out today how to change an icon for a particular folder (applications and files work the same way) to something other than the
Computers Bootcamp Run-Around I have been thinking about setting up my Macbook Pro with a Bootcamp partition ever since VMWare Fusion Beta 3 announced that you could use your Windows XP (or Vista) partition as a virtual machine. Last week I found out that a class I'm
Computers Mac Thoughts Two Weeks In It's been (almost) 2 weeks since I first laid my hands on the Macbook Pro. I have to say that I continue to be impressed with the laptop. As much as I love the machine, there have been some roadblocks in getting things set
Computers Day 2 as a Mac Noob... Well, I've now had the Macbook Pro for about 36 hours or so (part of that obviously was spent sleeping and not attached to it, although I seriously thought about skipping sleep last night). Today has gone pretty well. I got the developer tools
Computers First Day with the New Toy! Ok ok, so it's not really a toy as, within about 48 hours, it will be my sole computer for development. But right now it sure feels like a toy. I received the boxes from my wife at 8:45 ET this morning and
Computers Making the "Big Switch" You can add me to another fast-growing list of developers. Which list is that you ask? Why, it's the list of developers that are trading Windows machines for Macs. That's right, I finally took the plunge and ordered a shiny new Macbook Pro this
