From the clip pad files from 2008 & Life Hacker… A trick that I keep intending to do for cable management… Hide Your Cables in Your Baseboards and Crown Molding [DIY]: Hide your networking and television cables with WireTracks, a wire management solution that hides your messy cables behind crown molding and baseboards. The WireTracks […]
At this point, all evidence points to this being a normal fact of life with Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard). Â If you have more than 1 Dashboard widget, you will probably have more than one dashboardclient startup when you run Dashboard. Â The ratio is probably not a 1:1 ratio, since Leopard is designed to […]
Why does your Information Technology team tell you not to turn on that Web server, or leave SSH turned on when your not using it? Â Because they want you to be secure… Here\’s a perfect example… Mar 30 16:14:06 68 sshd[2933]: Did not receive identification string from 96.10.82.114 Mar 30 16:21:57 68 com.apple.SecurityServer[24]: checkpw() returned […]
I\’m not sure when this started, but I just noticed this in my log file, on NERV. 3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.launchd.peruser.506[40370]) getpwuid(\”506\”) failed 3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.launchd.peruser.506[40370]) PID 1104 \”lssave\” has no account to back it! Real/effective/saved UIDs: 506/506/506 3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.launchd.peruser.506[40370]) Exited with exit code: 1 3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] […]
Can you create sub-folders in Apple Mail and store them on a drive the way you can do is Microsoft Outlook? In MS Outlook, you could create a .pst folder and create as many sub-folders. Can you do the same thing in Apple Mail? Apple Mail can do so much more than OutLook.. Â Mail […]
Now, I\’m happy with Indigo & Insteon. But there are a few SwitchLinc\’s that aren\’t quite as reliable as I would like (95%?). But I must admit, my house\’s wiring is a rat\’s mess of old (old!) cable, and weirdly wired messes from the previous owners… For example, the entrance walkway, about 90-95% of the […]
I just purchased, through MacHeist, KineMac a 3d modeling software package…. Â Looks good, and quite useful… But of course, now I\’m looking for 3d models (.obj & 3ds) for it…And while this isn\’t 3d models, it\’s the next best thing with 3d model sheets (drawn 3d views of objects). Â Anime Model Sheets. Take a look […]
LowEnd Mac discusses Virtualization technologies other than vmware or parallels… How about opensource Darwine? Darwine: Mac Wine in New Bottles: \”Apple\’s move to Intel CPUs opened up a range of ways for Mac users to make use of Windows applications. Apple released Boot Camp, allowing Macs to dual-boot to Windows partitions in addition to Mac […]