Here’s an esoteric fix for something I wanted to do. In WoW, right click will move the camera. For some reason, when hosting synergy on the Mac (as the server) and connecting a Windows client, the right clicking gets whacked. It works fine the other way (don’t ask me).
So I want to […]

Synergy is a great tool for sharing multiple screens (reverse KVM) but for some reason lately I’ve noticed that if I’m physically on the center screen, then the mouse recenters occasionally. It’s pretty annoying.
I turned on debug log and looked in ~/Library/Logs/synergyd.log. I found this:
2007-10-04 22:12:11.894 Synergyd[337] DEBUG: dropped bogus motion -840,-526
I searched […]

When I typed port, portmirror or anything related to darwinports (macports), I got a strange error with no google hits.
# portmirror
can’t find package macports
while executing
“package require macports”
(file “/opt/local/bin/portmirror” line 11)
stormbringer:~/phonedmg root# port
can’t find package macports
while executing
“package require macports”
(file […]

I wanted lua installed on my Mac for some gamedev tests … darwinports didn’t give me a warm fuzzy. In uninstalled DarwinPorts with:
sudo rm -rf /opt/local /Applications/DarwinPorts /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup
And then downloaded fink (the universal binary). After installing the rather large 17mb package, fink wasn’t working. First the path /sw/bin wasn’t added to […]

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 […]

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.