Archive for: July 2006

Obviously I’ve been playing with my MacBook a lot this week. One thing that it came with that was kind of odd was a kind of iPod-like “remote control.” It has volume control, fast forward, rewind, play, and menu. What …

As someone who has supported network security products for a number of years, I have seen and heard many requests for help on "how to block this" or "how to block that." Goes with the territory. In an effort to …

This morning, the 2 Gigabtyes of RAM I ordered for my new MacBook arrived (for those that care, I ordered it from UpgradeMemory.com). So I shut down my Mac, popped off the battery, and found I had to unscrew …

Andy Abramson saw my blog posting on my iSight issues and gave me a call via SightSpeed. That was, by far, the best video quality I ever seen. 30 frames a second, crisp and full motion. He also showed …

I’m not sure who to blame here, but I might as well document it in case someone else runs into this stupid problem.

So I recently got a MacBook and I’ve been using it quite a bit. Today I …

For a while now I’ve been using a program called Synergy to share a keyboard between a Mac Mini, Linux laptop, and Windows laptop.  The Linux box was the “server” in this arrangement and the others were clients. This …

I think the glumness of my previous entry can be somewhat explained by the fact my wife waited until the very end of the day to give me my birthday gift: a MacBook. Since I’ve been wanting one of …

One thing I am not known for is keeping my office tidy. It’s usually a bit of a mess, at least in one part or another. The main area in which I worked had a lot of “stuff” that quite …

If the company were taking back mobile phones, this wouldn’t even be news. After all, mobile phones are viewed as “business tools” and when you are let go or leave a company, you must return all the business tools back …

I’ll give Alec credit for pointing me at these two articles from Jason Calcanis and Robert Scoble about keeping your smart, talented people happy. My co-workers and I say “no duh.” It’s also one reason why I’ve …