Intuition & Elbow Grease™

Lion (OSX 10.7) is now available, although I don’t feel compelled to upgrade. The Mac Minis have lost their optical drives. No more white Macbook (your choices are either an Air or a Pro for laptops now) Not sure how I feel about the loss of the optical drives… On the one hand I think [...]

These notes pertain specifically to OpenSolaris build 105 and VMWare Fusion v.2.01 on MacOS Leopard 10.5.6 ~ The host machine is a 13″ macbook with 2GB ram. When initially creating a new virtual machine for Solaris 10 the default memory size is set to 580Mb.   At  this setting the install  either hangs or progresses so [...]

I’ve been using VMWare’s Fusion product on my 1st gen Apple Macbook (2.0Ghz, 2GB ram, 160GB hard drive upgrade) sporadically now for about six months. I originally purchased the 1.0 version and was pleased when just a few weeks ago I found out that there was a free upgrade to 1.1 which included a few [...]

Gentoo Prefix Bootstrap Process for Mac OS X has a lengthy walkthrough on getting Gentoo‘s emerge package management system installed onto a Mac OSX system.  Naturally I had to give it a shot!  I’ve never worked with Gentoo before so I really had no idea what to expect from emerge. From a few conversations with [...]

It’s probably no secret that I’ve turned into a huge mac fanatic… The recent acquisition of a mac mini puts the household total to four machines actively in use. It also means that my low-end machine, a Power Mac G4 PCI (Yikes!) is just sitting there, looking all forlorn and wanting to be put back [...]

(cross-posted to Palm Addicts Forum) A note for Mac users: I thought I’d add a note about achieving a synchronized directory of text files without using Missing Sync. It does require a wee bit of unix knowledge (since the technique relies on running a shell script from the terminal) but not too much! In order [...]

I guess I just don’t understand the appeal. Yeah, it’s made by Apple… and it’s umm white. And way overpriced. (oh, did I just say that out loud?) I recently went throught the process of purchasing a portable mp3 player for myself and was astonished at the number of people flocking to the iPod. I [...]