Logging what I’m doing.
Clicked on New in “Virtual PC List”, selected “Other” for OS. Basically, this just lets us boot from a CD in a vanilla PC and install to a simple file on our Mac.
Downloaded BeOS Max Ed from here. Make sure to put the CD in, let it spin up and […]

Following a hello world tutorial, I got stuck on this error:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-carbon-3034

Couldn’t find anything so I thought I’d post the fix for someone like me out there:
Found it from an unusual source. Seems I couldn’t get the VM parameters to work so I have to do SWT’s not recommended suggestion of copying the […]

So you’ve tried everything to get rid of the login delay to ProFTPd. You’ve configured ProFTPd over and over again but it still doesn’t work?! You’re not running ProFTPd in standalone mode and you’ve come to the end of your rope right!?!? “What is causing the login delay?!” you ask in vain, […]

After starting with a 386 back in 1990 and moving to Linux/Solaris professionally, I decided to jump into OSX when a requirement for a laptop came up in my new job.
What follows are my initial impressions after about a week. I provide mostly unseen screenshots, info, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Last show with my band last night. Was a really great time. Lots of people showed. At least 50, maybe more. Which was impressive considering the cold.
The best part was at the end. We blew the power in the place. Very suiting for our last show. The whole […]