I’ve had my MacBook (white) for a few weeks now. And I strongly suggest you get the glossy screen if you don’t work with over head fluorescent lights. The screen is so bright and nice I can’t go back to my older LCD panels any more- they look horrible. Also my G5 now seems so…
Monthly Archives: June 2006
OSX 10.4.7 and JDKs
The recent 10.4.7 update switched the JDK to java 5.0. If you still need to use 1.4.2 for some reason, its still in there. Here is how you change it. It’s just a symlink in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions chac:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions dillera$ ls -l total 40 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Jun 10 22:20 1.3 -> 1.3.1 drwxr-xr-x 8…
ITOS’06 and Screen Shots
Of course I wasted all that time yesterday snapping photos of the new ITOS’06 Beta when the classic Load Applet and Screenshot taker was ported and sitting over in the Maemo Garage. It works fine In 2006. After I took a few shots I realized there was no easy way to get them to my…
Virtual Memory- ITOS 06
It’s all in there this time. Control Panel, Memory, Virtual Tab. Sweet. Extend away…
ITOS 2006 – The Elusive Thumboard
Have you used the thumb-board (T-Board) yet? It’s tricky. The idea is that you use the pressure of your thumb or finger, say, in the chat screen and the T-board will pop up. You put in your line of text, then return to the chat screen. Here is the T-board: You control the pressure to…
ITOS 2006 and IM
So the new IM client on ITOS’06 is really nice. Of course it does Google, and through that Google Talk- but it also seems to be a full featured Jabber client. At my company, we’ve installed our own Jabber server for internal IM. I was able to easily add a new “account” and connect to…
Nokia 2006 Beta
Lots of talk on the net about this- and they are all correct- this beta is amazing. It’s very fast and the the UI enhancements are nice. I’ve taken some screen shots (12) the old fashion way, and I’ll let them do the talking. First, the flasher on OSX worked like a charm: blinky:~ dillera$…
Firefox and Tooltips on Macintosh
I love Firefox and I hate Firefox. On the Mac, it’s great and it’s even better on my new MacBook- it’s super fast. You are using the built-for-G4-G5-Intel builds over at Beatnikpad aren’t you? With all the Firefox goodness however, there has always been one thing that has driven me nuts: the ToolTips. I like…
VMware, Solaris9 x86 and Disk
So my Solaris sysadmin skillz are getting rusty, and I had to add a new virtual disk to a VMware Solaris9 X86 system (it’s a long story) and I was drawing a blank…. bash-2.05# dmesg | grep ata Jun 6 17:44:48 solaris pcplusmp: [ID 637496 kern.info] pcplusmp: ide (ata) instance 0 vector 0xe ioapic 0x1…