Monthly Archives: August 2007

A New Shot

Took this yesterday evening at the golf course near my crib.

August 31, 2007 – 1:20 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Photography | Comments (0)

Airport Disk Slow Performance

It was my ambition last night to set up a 300GB drive, hook it to the Airport Extreme in the office, and have a little backup action happening in an automated fashion.

The good old standby of Rsync was to be the weapon of choice. Given that my tower machine has a 90GB home folder …

August 29, 2007 – 10:26 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random, Technology | Comments (0)

Nic – Lets start a software company

Okay Nic. Let’s do it. Lets start a software company. I have an idea for our first app.

A real GUI app for smartmontools. We’ll go from there and build an empire. What do you say?

August 21, 2007 – 2:40 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Mac | Comments (2)

Fix for Apple Aluminum Keyboard Dashboard and Expose keys not working

I love the new Apple keyboard. But like a lot of other people, on one of my machines, the expose and dashboard keys weren’t working. So I thought I would dig into the issue. The problem is apparently that Dock.app isn’t getting updated properly. The keyboard driver is sending the commands …

August 21, 2007 – 2:18 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (28)

These are just awesome

You’ve already got that hole in your desk. Make a USB hub, or iPod dock out of it.

August 20, 2007 – 11:50 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

Tor Geekiness

I’m using TOR for most of my browsing these days utilizing the pretty chill Vidalia. But sometimes teh TOR is very very slow. So I’ll want to switch it off momentarily.

This is an annoying process requiring you to head into system preferences, click on your interface, click on proxies tab… yadda yadda. …

August 18, 2007 – 9:03 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random, Technology | Comments (0)

A visit to stupid town

So I went to the Apple store today to pick up a second new keyboard. One for work. Yes I love them.

While I was there I thought I would check out a Canon HV20, and see how imovie was working with HDV. While I was wandering around I overheard this:

random store patron: …

August 18, 2007 – 5:37 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random, Technology | Comments (2)

Karl Rove has resigned

Wow. Karl Rove has resigned. This can only be a good sign for people who enjoy sanity. This is a good monday.

August 13, 2007 – 9:44 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)