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  2. Computer in the living room

    Tue, 12/22/2009 - 12:47 — jmccabe

    A few months ago I was looking at my DirecTV bill. I have it set to auto-pay and, I have to admit, this makes me really lazy about checking it. This is why I was surprised to note that the bill was for $65. A quick look through prior bills showed that they too were all in the $65 neighborhood (sometimes as high as $75 if we'd ordered a pay-per-view movie or two).

    "$800 dollars a year?! Holy crap! That's as much as I pay for auto insurance! And that doesn't even count the electricity to keep the TiVo running 24/7*! For what?!"

     

  3. Open Web Server building on MacOS X!

    Fri, 07/17/2009 - 10:39 — jmccabe

    Meena has done the heavy lifting to make Open Web Server compile and run on MacOS X! Fricken sweet!

     

  4. Time Machine making me all grumpy

    Tue, 06/02/2009 - 13:47 — jmccabe

    Time Machine is the built-in backup tool in MacOS X 10.5. It takes a snapshot of files that have changed (by default it does this once an hour) and copies them to a sparse image on a USB, FireWire, or network volume (this typically requires an Apple Time Capsule drive or a MacOS X 10.5 machine sharing a drive - with a bit of hacking about it can be made to work with cheaper NAS configurations).

     

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