When does minimalism go too far? Maybe as a response to how much I travel, or maybe just because I’ve started loosing stuff in my old age, I have been reducing and getting more organized for years. I have endeavored to get rid of all that isn’t necessary and been welcomed by the fact that less truly is more. I buy less clothes, own less crap, I travel with fewer keys, I am less of a gear-head (outside of my lab of course), I ditched racks of systems in my old lab for 2 stacks of Mac Minis and I oddly end up throwing out less as well. And that…
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Remote Disks
In Mac OS X, you can see Remote Disks in the Finder. This setting is enabled by default in the MacBook Air and on the MacMini Server, but not on most other models. To enable it add the EnableODiskBrowsing key in the com.apple.NetworkBrowser.plist with a value of YES: defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool YES To set it back to default: defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool NO
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Solid State Storage for the Masses
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The new MacBook Air was introduced at MacWorld with the option for a 64GB Solid-State hard drive. Toshiba is also now offering Solid-State drives in sizes that are 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. The drives still seem to be lagging in adoption due to high costs, but they offer more durability, faster boot times and lower power requirements which should all lead to higher adoption over the next two years. Toshiba will also begin making Solid-state SATA drives in May that can be used in desktop systems.