Category: computer
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Virtual OS X Server Screenshots
Apple now allow you to virtualize OS X Server instances. While your virtualization options are limited, it’s very easy to set up on your existing OS X Server. This is an virtualized OS X Leopard Server guest running in Parallels Server on a host OS X Leopard Server. You can see that the guest system…
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Hacker Shopping Cart
My shopping cart.. Energy drinks. Energy bars. Energy backups. Guess what I do for a living. 🙂
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Parallels Server Pricing: Redux
After a few grumpy emails between myself and our Account Manager, I’m happy to report that we have purchased the GA release and it’s working well. If you are using Parallels Server for internal development purposes and not for hosting, they will extend a more reasonable price per machine: $200 + $50/year maintenance. I think…
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Switching To Dvorak: Seven Months Later
Today marks exactly seven months from the day I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout. Key Observations 72, 81 and 77 words per minute, clocked with three different one-minute tests on TypingTest.com. In home-row-only tests I took several months ago, I was already consistently over 100 WPM. The many common home-row-only words (those spelled with A,…
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Parallels Server for Mac Pricing
Fresh from my inbox.. Parallels Server for Mac will be available soon. As a thank you to all participating Parallels Server for Mac Beta users, Parallels is offering an exclusive discount on a single Parallels Server for Mac license. Purchase this new software for only $700* – a 30% savings. Hmm… well, the product has been working fairly…
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Netgear FVS114 – Worst POS SOHO Router Ever
Some of the worst infrastructural issues OpenRain has had since inception has been border hardware. We’ve been through all typical COTS models you’d find at Best Buy, but all have had issues with at least one of.. Dropping inbound traffic due to some stupid “DDoS Protection” feature we couldn’t disable. Not passing VPN traffic though…
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Five Major Apple Design Irritants
Apple, My software development firm–OpenRain in Arizona–spends buckets of money on your products. Stuff works pretty well in general, but you really need to address these issues. Really. PowerBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro power supply cables invariably rip. Not only that, but it’s always at the same freaking places. The MackBook/Pro power supplies are better…
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New MacBook Pro Battery
The stock battery on my 1st-generation MacBook Pro has only been providing an hour of power as of late. When I hot-swapped in a fully charged new battery from my local Apple store, I was thrilled with the estimated remaining charge.. I highly doubt it will actually last this long, but one can dream. 🙂
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Sufficiency In Software Testing
When I was finishing up my B.S. I took a class in embedded software testing. The big assignment was to write the software that controls a single elevator, test the software to our satisfaction and deliver the whole shebang at the end of the semester. The critical lesson I learned from the course was…