Posts Categorized "Editorials"

SSH on your iPhone with TouchTerm

I’m about to walk out the door to catch a movie this evening and I get an SMS alert from Pingdom that my server is down. “That’s strange, I haven’t even logged into the server today,” I think to myself. I hop on my Mac to check things out and it definitely is down. I hurriedly attempt an emergency console connection but that doesn’t work. Not being able to do anything nor be late for the movie, I shoot off an email to the Slicehost support staff that I can’t login to my slice and head out the door. Half way to the theater I get a response that the server experienced a drive failure but for some reason did not gracefully failover, requiring a hard reboot, and that all slices were running again. Read more

Dropbox: Synchronization that Works

If you read my post about keeping 2 Macs synchronized back in July, you may have left disappointed because I didn’t offer a solution that worked. Well, I can finally resolve that issue now.

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A Brief Analysis of OpenID

“Holy crap! A single unique ID that will give me access to any website would be freaking sweet!” That was my initial response when I first heard about OpenID and what the project envisioned. It reminded me of the computer systems in sci-fi movies where the heroes didn’t have to memorize dozens of passwords to save the day. Then again, these advanced computer systems always seemed to be the downfall of the mighty civilization. Is this the kind of future that we really want? Read more

Keeping 2 Macs Synchronized

Updated 7/28/2008 3:00 AM. (Corrected errors and added Unison)

When my new iMac was up and running smoothly I turned my focus to keeping it synced with my Macbook Pro. This turned out to be a rather challenging and complicated task. Mac OS X normally uses the HFS+ file system which adds extended attributes and resource forks. Most open source command-line utilities do not play well with those two additions, including some of Apple’s own ports. I spent many hours researching and testing various applications and thought I would share my findings and thoughts. Read more

A Little Perspective on Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

Now that I’ve recovered from my Google shock, I can return to what I really came to write about.

I ran across this very interesting video series on the All Things Digital website. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates on stage at the same time sharing their stories. I know this footage is almost a year old, but I only stumbled on it just now. But if you haven’t seen them yet I would strongly recommend watching them. Read more