This seems to have been making the rounds for a little while but I thought it worth making a stop here…
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Earth Album
Earth Album is a great little site that allows you to merge Google Maps and Flickr. Search for a location in Google Maps and a number of images will appear that you can click on. Interesting little site: http://www.earthalbum.com
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Site Redesign & Move
Pardon my dust while there’s a little reconstruction and moving to a new host going on…
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Danger Mousing @ Microsoft
I really have no comments on this one: Microsofts_sidekick_pink_problems_blamed_on_dogfooding_and_sabotage Well, OK, of course I have something to say: the word sabotage is libelous. Dogfooding I would assume Every organization wants to run the solution they can best support and extend, whether they write that solution or not. But sabotage? Human errors can happen, no matter how many processes you put in place to keep it from happening. That’s life. To then say that loosing data for most SideKick users is sabotage is an unsubstantiated (yes, I read the whole article and saw no proof) and dangerous (no pun intended) statement, likely made as a result of a disgruntled and ultimately…
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Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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Tether Thy iPhone
iPhone Firmware 3.1 is great, unless you want to tether, which the tethering page at Apple will tell ya’ is not supported in the US (it’s not fine print but it’s smallish). The instructions at http://help.benm.at/help.php can get you able to tether in Firmware 3.0 (where it’s also not officially supported) and the video link on the site is also able to downgrade the firmware from 3.1 to 3.0 as you can see here: http://www.benm.at/tutorials/howto-iphone-3g-firmware-3-1-downgrade-os-x
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Danger Will Robinson: SideKick + Microsoft
Occasionally Blackberries go down. Not one or two, but all of them. Sometimes (albeit rarely), Google Apps are unavailable. The Mac community got so frustrated with MobileMe during the .Mac transition that Apple released an official apology of sorts. But nothing that is as dangerous as the recent SideKick data loss. In a move that is characteristic of the battle that has been brewing between the makers of mobile devices and the carriers that provide access to those devices, T-Mobile released the following statement: Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts,…
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Open Source Voting Systems & the Mac
To date, I don’t choose to publish my own political views. But no matter whether you are liberal, conservative or one of the various mixtures of the two, you will agree that making sure that every vote counts is integral to a successful democracy. And making sure that every vote counts in many ways starts with counting the votes, a job we have entrusted to a select number of voting system manufacturers. Computerized voting systems have not traditionally lived up to how well other information technology innovations have been able to impact traditionally non-computerized environments. The Help America Vote Act, passed in 2002 was supposed to help propel the initiative…
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Mac OS X Server's Radius + Cisco MDS 9000
Mac OS X Server has a RADIUS service. The Cisco MDS 9000 is becoming a pretty common Fibre Channel switch to use in Xsan environments, which often have an Open Directory server running. If you enable the RADIUS service you can then have the MDS 9000 authenticate administrative and monitoring users over RADIUS so that you continue to centralize your authentication services. To get started, first put the MDS into config mode using the config command with a t option: config t Specifies the preshared key for the selected RADIUS server. This should be the same as the preshared key you use in your Mac OS X Server’s RADIUS configuration,…
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php from the Command Line
Using php at the command line isn’t an exact science in regard to which scripts that run in a web page will function from the shell. However, if you are automating many tasks, such as how you would go about with a shell script, then php is a nice alternative to other languages. To get started, let’s look at the version of php that we’re running. A quick way to test this is type the following from the command line. php -v This should result in something like the following message, which includes the version of PHP you are running and the current date: PHP 5.3.0 (cli) (built: Jul 19 2009…