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Adios, freebsd.cx

May 18, 2010

I’ve owned the domain ‘freebsd.cx’ for a number of years and it’s got a certain amount of history behind it that a few of you may remember. However, given CoCCA’s recent price hikes (50 USD a year!) and the fact that it’s now only used by a couple of people for email mean that I’m [...]

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‘Minimal’ Solaris 10 and SunCluster 3.2 install in VMware Fusion

March 20, 2010

Following on from Dan’s how-to regarding the configuration of SunCluster 3.2 within VMware Fusion, here’s my additional notes on doing this from a minimal install (i.e core software group) so as to keep the size of the VMs down. First thing you’ll want to do is install some packages to make your life a bit less [...]

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Immergrün

February 27, 2010

I dusted off the D700 last night to take some shots of Rox’s friend’s band, Immergrün, at the Schlosskeller here in Darmstadt. It’s a pretty cool little venue but awkward to take photos, as while it’s fairly intimate there’s huge columns in the way (well, it is a cellar…) that kind of limit your options. [...]

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My Hackintosh, one week on.

February 10, 2010

Hackintoshes have always seemed like way more effort than they’re worth to me. Custom kernels, problematic updates, random crashes, it all flies in the face of why you use an Apple operating system (and computer) in the first place. While I can appreciate the hacker aesthetic, I’ve never really had the inclination or patience to [...]

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Firefox Add-Ons for 2010

January 25, 2010

I flit back and forth between Safari, Chrome, and Firefox but always end up using the latter as my ‘main’ browser for one simple reason – the plugins. While Chrome may be quicker and Safari launches faster and has better text rendering, Firefox can’t be touched for one simple reason – the vast array of [...]

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Eyup now then lad

January 14, 2010

The Budweiser ‘wassup‘ advert sparked quite a few parodies back in its day – including some from the company itself, but there was one in particular I was especially fond of in which the ‘wasssuuuup’s were replaced by Yorkshiremen saying ‘ey up’ instead. Fast forward a few years and a conversation with my girlfriend resulted [...]

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Microsoft name-and-shame

November 19, 2009

This morning Dan‘s mailbox was graced with some shitty Microsoft newsletter which named and shamed 21 companies busted for selling computers with dodgy copies of their software. It’s surprising to see how many of these are from ‘up North’ (Bolton, Manchester, Oldham and so on), and just out of curiosity I did a quick Google [...]

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Favourite Mac OS X Applications

November 13, 2009

I was nosying back through some old posts on my site and came across this one from 2006 regarding my favourite Mac OS X applications, and figured it’d be interesting to update this for 2009 / 2010. While the ‘way’ I work feels like it hasn’t changed, the range of core applications I use to [...]

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Vista stability?

November 12, 2009

Here’s a choice quote from Simon Aldous, who is a Microsoft’s partner group manager, regarding Windows 7. While on one hand it’s nice that Microsoft have (finally) admitted that they’ve drawn heavily from Mac OS X’s design and philosophy when it comes to the user interface, his closing comment is what stands out (for all [...]

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Booting 64-bit Snow Leopard on a 2008 13″ Unibody MacBook

October 11, 2009

According to this post, booting into a 64-bit kernel in Snow Leopard on the ‘original’ 13″ Unibody MacBook is artificially crippled by Apple, despite the hardware being perfectly capable: $ ioreg -p IODeviceTree -w0 -l | grep firmware-abi | | “firmware-abi” = <”EFI64″> This is somewhat annoying given that I’m a proud owner of said [...]

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