Musings

Laurent Haug of ballpark.ch is organizing a conference called Lift06 in Genva in the beginning of February. The roster of speakers looks promising, the price (CHF 295) looks right and Geneva is only a train ride away. I think I’ll be there (Laurent still needs a Ruby on Rails demo) Technorati Tags: conference, lift06, refactoring, geneva, ballpark

After a couple of weeks of having FolderShare installed on a variety of Windows and Macintosh Computers, I decided to upgrade to the paid, professional version of their service. Foldershare allows you to keep multiple folders in sync across multiple computers. It works beautifully and flawless. Today I wanted to put it on my Mac Mini which I got back from repairs (it’s harddisk had died) to sync back files from my Mac Laptop. ...

Neulich im Postausgang: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren ich habe mir die Un-CD “thelonius monk quartet with john coltrane at carnegie hall” gekauft. Diese ist zwar per “copy contol” geschutzt, aber laut Hulle kompatibel zu Mac OSX. Nachdem ich die Un-CD in mein Apple 15" Powerbook eingelegt habe, ist die Un-CD nicht erkannt worden. Es ist mir auch nicht moglich die Un-CD wieder auszuwerfen. (Mac muss dazu neu gestartet werden) ...

Stupid! I needed a 200 MB database file to do some work with it. I had been doing design changes to the database which were deployed to the productive system late in the evening. Then the last changes were done later in the evening by the content owner. The system admin who did the deployment staied so long and then copied the file to his USB stick. We had agreed to meet this morning at 06:55 in Zurich main-station for the transfer of the data. ...

That’s what I thought when I read the ongoing announcments (and the howling of the frustrated pro-users) over at Mac Essentials yesterday. Of course it would be nice to have new multi-core PowerMacs or PowerBooks. But few people would care. The announcements of the new iMac with it’s gadgets, FrontRow and of course the iPod (with video) and iTMS with video and TV-shows appeal to more people. A lot more. I think Apple is executing a long term strategy that seems to work just really, really nice. ...

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