The Love Shack

So I’ve been fighting with my iPhone for months. Ever since the 2.0 update, I have been dealing with lots of annoying issues trying to get the sync to work properly. The most notable were my phantom calendars. iTunes couldn’t see any of my iCal calendars, but it *did* see about 20 calendars that hadn’t [...]

It’s as though the Mozilla guys knew that Google was cooking up Chrome and wanted to make sure that Chrome didn’t steal all their glory. So about a week ago, they gave us Ubiquity. If you need to know why Ubiquity is cool, I’ll let their page do the talking. But, if you already think [...]

If I’m not careful this blog is going to turn into an OSX tips and trick blog before too long.
So, you have more than one Mac machine, you lucky [son|daughter]-of-a-gun! And you’ve got MacPorts installed on both since you’re a complete geek. But you’re getting tired of installing (or, more specifically, compiling) the [...]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time struggling with getting Synergy to work to my satisfaction in OSX. (Leopard, 10.5.3 to be exact)
Problem number 1. Running as a daemon doesn’t work. It crashes after a few seconds and OSX prompts you to report the error to Apple. So you have to run it as a [...]

Tim Dysinger put up a great article the other day about simplifying Rails app deployment. He briefly goes over some of the SSH configuration options that you can use to simplify things, particularly when using ssh-agent. There are a few other things that I use to greatly simplify my life, particularly since I use ssh [...]

So I don’t really care for CentOS. It’s a project the builds binary packages from the source provided by Red Hat as part of RHEL (That would be Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and then gives them out for free. Great concept. But it’s distributing Red Hat, and the Red Hat folks don’t even like them. [...]

If I hear one more person pronounce the word “daemon” as “damon”, I’m gonna go crazy. Well, maybe not. Probably too late for that already.
But, either way, it’s quite annoying. I really don’t understand why people are so uncomfortable with saying the word “demon” when talking about computers. They look at “daemon” and [...]

So, as of today, I have accepted an offer to work for The Man. Not The Man as in, “The Man is keeping us down”, but as in “You are The Man!”. Except, in this case, it’s more like The Company. Starting soon (hopefully Friday, if everything is ready to go) I’ll be [...]

Ok, so I’ve been encoding my DVD’s for viewing on my mythtv box and I’ve gotten tired of always tying up my desktop while I do so. So I set up a little headless box in the closet (encoder) to just encode away while I’m doing other stuff on my main machine (thief). But, now [...]

I just threw together a little script I call rdiffdir to allow me to make rdiff deltas of entire directories easily. All it really does is create a tar archive of the directory and use rdiff on it. But it’s easy to use (well, for me at least ), quick, and it gets [...]