On Saturday, I got one of the new 13″ MacBook Pro. I switched the 320 GB hard drive from my old MacBook with the 120 GB drive it came with. It took a trip to Fry’s and some frustration since the guts are not as accessible on the old MacBook. Everything worked great once it […]
My coworkers and I have gotten addicated to Starcraft again. The question is how to run it since my only computers are Linux and Mac. Starcraft under [Wine](http://winehq.com) on Linux works pretty well. There are some issues with the display changing resolution that makes it hard to switch back to the desktop and resizes programs. […]
February 23, 2007 – 20:20
At work, they have been buying all the programmers new monitors. Everybody now has at least one 20″ LCD. Some people have two. The rest of us could have two monitors, one maybe smaller, if there wasn’t a shortage of dual-head video cards. I decided to hook up the second smaller monitor up to my […]
September 18, 2006 – 04:51
I got [mt-daapd](http://www.mt-daapd.org) running on my Linux desktop where all my music files are. I found a [patch](http://hamadha.com/mt-daapd/mt-daapd-stable-avahi.diff) to make it work with [avahi](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Avahi) and [instruction and RPMs](http://www.terrysoucy.ca/index.php?/archives/17-More-Audio-Streaming-Goodness.html). The only problem is that iTunes does not support streaming Ogg files. The [QuickTime Components](http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/) do a good job of local Ogg playing but I guess iTunes […]
I got the wireless working on my MacBook under Fedora rawhide. The MacBook includes an Atheros chipset which needs the [madwifi](http://madwifi.org) driver. The madwifi driver can’t be included in the base kernel or distribution because it includes a binary HAL which isn’t open-source. Unfortunately, the madwifi driver did not compile cleanly on the Fedora development […]
I had an idea that the graphical Fedora installer would be okay (or could at least be used with a mouse) even if the keyboard at the console was duplicating keypresses. Instead of trying to do a network install, I burned the FC6 Test 2 DVD. I went quickly through the text dialogs. The graphical […]
To celebrate the release of [Boot Camp 1.1 beta](http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/), I tried to install [Fedora Core](http://fedora.redhat.com) in the spare space on my drive. Boot Camp worked great to repartition the drive, shrink the Mac OS X partition, and create a 10 GB free space. First, I tried Fedora Core 5 DVD. The installer got to a […]
I was using iTunes today and turned on the display of the Track Number. And discovered that none of my Ogg files had any track numbers. Soon after I got the MacBook, I installed the [Quicktime Components](http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/) which allow playing Ogg and FLAC files because that it what nearly all my music is encoded in. […]
[Parallels](http://www.parallels.com/) rocks. It is the first virtualization software for the Intel Macs. They also Windows and Linux but they aren’t well known compared to the big guys of Microsoft Virtual PC and VMware. The performance is pretty good since it makes use of the Intel VT extensions in the Core Duo processor which allows full […]
I have been thinking about getting a laptop. Seeing all the laptops at OSCON made me want to get one now. The problem is, I am not sure which one to get. I want to get a small, light one. I have never gotten the point of the big laptops; the point is to carry […]