Monthly Archives August 2005

Review: Western Digital Netcenter 320GB NAS

Networked Attached Storage (NAS) is a fantastic idea. Just plug a drive into your network and have an instant file server. No server to configure or update. Easy to put in the closet and forget about it. Or is it?
I bought the Western Digital Netcenter because it had OS X support [...]

Moving from Movable Type to Wordpress

I started this blog with Movable Type since I had used it in the past. I noticed an increasing number of people were using Wordpress instead of MT. So I did some investigation on it and decided to setup a parallel site using Wordpress.

Wordpress is definitely easier to setup. The dashboard isn’t [...]

Powerbooks at OSCON

Powerbooks are everywhere here at OSCON. It’s like an Apple ad all day. If developers really precede trends, OSX may be making inroads. I think Apple’s subtle embrace of open source is why. They are using it in their products (the whole BSD layer as well as many apps on top [...]

Jordan Hubbard at OSCON

I forgot to mention what was probably the highlight of my day yesterday — I attended an open session with Jordan Hubbard of Apple. He is a really nice guy. I asked him several questions on Darwinports and Xcode support for scripting languages like Python and Ruby. He said Darwinports would remain [...]

OSCON - Day 4

Day 4 and I’m now ready to be done. Probably the late night party at Kell’s we held last night had something to do with it. It was a pretty good time. We hoped to find potential recruits for the company. We did get a few but not as many as [...]

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