The CEO of the company I work for mentioned that she was having problem with a USB drive containing a bunch of her data. I offered take a look. Sure enough, her Mac could not see the drive. Worse, while spinning up the drive made a lot of odd, periodic noises that did not inspire [...]
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A virtual domain controller
I want to give props to the fine folks at VMWare. Their products helped me to solve a nagging and difficult problem, quickly and cheaply.
This was the problem. I work at a small java development shop which started with a Windows infrastructure. Back in around 1999 or 2000 someone set up a box to act [...]
The Atari ST remembered
A blast from the past: the building of the Atari ST. I had one, and still fondly remember its monochrome bit mapped screen. The ST character set included an Easter egg of sorts, four characters that (properly combined) depicted the smiling face of J. R. Bob Dobbs.
ReadyNAS power supply
We have an Infrant ReadyNAS NV at work, and it recently died. Rather, its power supply died. It proved to be all but impossible to buy a new power supply for this thing. Hoping to find a clue, I checked the ReadyNAS forums, and found this thread. It turns out a series of these devices, [...]
mac pro memory
We’ve been moving to the Mac Pro as our standard development box where I work. … We’ve been buying from Crucial, but today I was reading a review of the new Mac Pro’s in Ars Technica, and they mentioned an outfit called Other World Computing .
fixing FreeAgent drives
Some months ago I bought a Seagate FreeAgent usb drive. It turned out that the drive did not play well with linux. After 15 idle minutes it spins down, and closes the usb connection. Later it remounts read-only. After much digging around in the Ubuntu forums I was able to make it work correctly. I [...]
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