After wrapping up writing last night, I took a break from the book for most of the day with some shopping and some time with our neighbors. Our neighbors across the street, invited us over for some candle lighting, latkas and dreidling -- a very nice way to wrap up the holidays.
One of my non-health related resolutions for 2006 is to switch over to Tiger, by which I mean Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and Java 5.0 Tiger. So I dragged the boys over to CompUSA and bought a LinkSys
NSLU2 Network Storage Link and a Maxtor 200GB external USB drive. They didn't have Mac OS X, so I drove over to the Apple store in Durham. I bought both Mac OS Tiger and iLife, because
I was warned Tiger doesn't include the Apple software goodies I've been digging recently (iMovie, iDVD and iPhoto, grumble grumble). All and alll, a way too expensive day. Once I use my
Carbon Copy Cloner to back up my Powerbook (hmm, is that gonna work with a network mounted drive?), I'll feel comfortable installing the new Mac OS.
Another resolution on my list is to do some 'casting. I'll be making the first non-snapshot release of
Blogapps this week, so I'd like to make a couple of screencasts. I've got two ideas in mind. One screencast will walk you through the installation and setup of the Blogapps server (i.e. my Roller/JSPWiki bundle). The other will explain Atom protocol (as it stands today) using the Blogapps server and some command-line utillities I wrote for the Atom protocol chapter. I was quite impressed with what
Brian McAllister did with
Snapz Pro X in his ApacheCon talk, so I'm thinking that is the package to buy for Mac screencasting. Please pipe-up if you know better.
Posted by Brian McCallister on January 01, 2006 at 11:23 PM EST #
NSLU2's are very, very cool. My noisy basement is now as quiet as a half-dozen USB hard-drives since I moved to a slug farm. I was using mt-daapd, but noticed that the latest iTunes doesn't work with my install so it's update time there.
I also run Twonkyvision on one of the slugs so that the D-Link device that sits under my TV can pull mpgs up from the basement.
The third slug runs the house DNS and is a rsync backup for my servers, and the fourth is for playing with.
Posted by Henri Yandell on January 02, 2006 at 12:18 AM EST #
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