Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed that my hourly Time Machine backup on my Mac Pro has been backing up almost 2GB of data every time it runs. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what could be changing that much data each hour and Time Machine is less than helpful … 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
I installed the ColdFusion 8 developer edition a few weeks ago on my MacBook Pro. I installed it as a multi-server installation pretty similar to the recommended way for installing CFMX 7. One of the differences with the installer is that CF8 asks you if you want it to auto start at boot time. Initially … Read more
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 default. I have a folder named ‘Projects’ under my Documents folder … Read more
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 taking at the end of July requires you to install the … Read more