My recent Archives article was met with some controversy and debate, which is great. I love controversy and debate, and a terrific discussion ensued. That discussion has led me to think a bit harder on my archive plan, and I’d like to follow up on the matter with some of the specifics of said plan, [...]
When I first saw the title of this article over at Ars I rolled my eyes: Cloud Computing: a short introduction Then I read it. It turns out to be an incredibly thorough, yet brief, technical description of the term Cloud Computing. The article does a great job of defining Grid Computing and then uses [...]
I recently wrote an article, entitled Why We Tell You To Reboot, that described a Final Cut Pro bug which, after going to great troubleshooting lengths, I was ultimately only able to solve by a simple reboot. Shortly after posting I received a single comment from a fellow admin and blogger: “You really tell people [...]
There are three basic methods in use today for hosting home accounts on networks in such a way that users have a single home account that follows them from computer to computer, giving them the same environment no matter where they log in. None of these three strategies works in a way that reflects how [...]
This is how still images in Final Cut Pro 7 looked to me after installing and updating to the latest version (7.0.1): This is my dog: She is not normally purple and green and swirly colored. After an hour or so mucking about, reinstalling the application, trashing prefs and otherwise performing the usual maneuvers, I [...]
It’s just come to my attention that it’s now fairly trivial to split a drive into two differently formatted partitions, one of which could be used for the Mac while the other could be used for Windows. This is not necessarily new, but there are a number of things that make it of particular interest [...]
Let’s face it, my data is everywhere. I have drives all over the place for various and sundry purposes. Some are full. Some aren’t. I also have a folder for things I plan on trashing eventually, when I need to reclaim some space, but want to keep around just in case, called TrashMe. And I [...]
Alexander Limi, one of the developers of the fine — and my favorite — browser, Firefox, recently issued a challenge that has been heard by many: how to make application installation more sensible for the less technically advanced. What followed — and, to some extent preceded — was an explosion of discussion on the matter. [...]
So we had yet another calamity in the Systems Boy household last week: A hard drive failure in a four year old, 15″ PowerBook. Oddly, a workmate had the exact same thing happen to him within days of our catastrophe. In fact, there’s been all manner of hardware failure in recent days. I know that [...]
There’s a commercial that depicts a school system as run by the courier companies. I forget what the commercial is for. In it a narrator asks, “What if the schools were run by courier companies?” A child is late. The lead delivery guy calls his agents in the field. And within minutes, the child is [...]