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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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This is one of the things that I should have been setting up a long time ago, but haven’t. Yesterday was the day. Remote Backup of my PowerBook. Goal: Continuous off-site backup of the most important files (my home directory) on my laptop Ingredients: Strongspace (I got a 4 GiB account for $8 / month) rsync (comes bundled with OS X) Ruby (comes bundled with OS X) SSHKeychain Setting up a Strongspace account is easy. Strongspace gives you secure offline storage that you access through SFTP or anything with SSH (like rsync). The cost is negligible if you care about what you have on your laptop. ...

There are things in the life of an IT engineer that are likely to drive him insane. Not the installation of PostreSQL on OS X. Not writing multithreaded Ruby code. Not looking for performance problems in Java programs, running on Sun Solaris using vmstat, iostat and truss. Not even working with RoboHelp X5 and RoboSource Control Table of Contents. In Word (or in OpenOffice - the two have similar approaches) ...