Posts tagged with "osx"

"Me and Peter Krantz just tried to get an iChat video chat going, just to test it out. We never got it going. We forwarded a gazillion ports on our routers, turned off the firewalls on our laptops but to no avail. The thing is, had we managed to get it working it would still have been way too hard to set up for any sort of reqular use. And how often do you have access to the router anyway?"

"I have had problems compiling Vim on Leopard, and it turns out that the culprit is the built in Mac Ruby. No clue why, but when after port installing Ruby, Vim installs cleanly. I guess I’ll have to go with MacPorts Ruby - having a working Vim beats DTrace, however cool it is."

"This tutorial on RubyOSA is great. I have never got around to learn AppleScript, and now it seems like I never will."

"If I could ask for one thing in Leopard, it would be the ability to answer Exchange invitations directly from Mail.app. As it is now, I either have to use the heavily dysfunctional non-IE Outlook web interface or fire up Entourage for the sole purpose of clicking ‘Accept’."

"On the train to work this morning I proudly realized that my PowerBook had an uptime of 30 days. The fact that Macs can do this is so weird to my non-mac colleagues that they almost don’t believe it. Well, the God of Failing Computers saw me in my hubris, and promptly crashed my computer, just like that, and would not let it restart. It finally showed some signs of life when I got to the office and plugged it in."

"By accident I stumbled upon the alt-command-O keyboard combination which allows you to move the current window to a given Desktop Manager virtual desktop - or to place it on all of them. Perhaps I haven’t looked hard enough, but I have not seen this mentioned in any documentation. This was the only thing I thought was missing in Desktop Manager. I find it really useful for Adium and Skype."

"Powerpoint corruption and lies Originally uploaded by mahnve. I am so intensely mad right now. I have spent the afternoon working on a presentation I am to give at lunch time tomorrow. To make it short: Powerpoint crashes, and takes my file with it in the fall. I can’t open it anymore. I am redoing my presentation right now - in Keynote. Coming up with the title of this entry cheered me up a little."

"After getting the PowerBook, I’ve made quite a few additional switches in my digital life: Mac Mini instead of a PC with Ubuntu Linux at home. After a few weeks with a Mac at work, I could no longer live without one at home, so whoops, there it is: a Mac Mini. It is oh so quiet. NetNewsWire instead of Bloglines. I have not visited my previous darling Bloglines once since I started using NetNewsWire TextMate instead if JEdit, Vi, Emacs … it rocks."

"Lots of people have had problems with Ruby and MySQL. The ever so pragmatic Rails book links to a popular solution which involves installing the MySQL gem and specifying the path to the MySQL. This did not do the trick for me, and I’ve failed trying different alternatives after that. Today I came across PJ Hyett’s idea of installing Ruby-MySQL from source. It worked like a charm."

"Wow. I am back in Mac land, which I left in 1996 when I started my career at IBM and turned into a PC drone. Now, after four days of pure Mac joy, it feels like I am never going back. This also goes to show what a cool company Valtech is. I mentioned this to Jon who got really jealous. Apparently the Thoughtworkers get company issued Dells and all Mac stuff is paid for by themselves."