April 23rd is Download Day
I seem to be downloading a couple of Gigs of stuff this morning. First off is Ubuntu 9.04, which was released today. I am grabbing both the “desktop” and “server” editions. I plan on using the server edition when I rebuild Tnir. Next up is Qt 4.5.1, and this time there are Cocoa, 64-bit Binaries for Mac OS X (last time, with 4.5, you had to compile it yourself to get 64-bit goodness). But you have to dig around to get them. Here are the links to save people some trouble.- Mac Carbon 32-bit 4.5.1
- Mac Carbon 32-bit 4.5.1 debug
- Mac Cocoa 64-bit 4.5.1
- Mac Cocoa 64-bit 4.5.1 debug
- Mac 4.5.1 source code
Apple TV Hacking: success!
Posted by rae in Reid, entertainment, hardware, homeowner, software
at 2:11 am on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
at 2:11 am on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
I managed to get ssh working at last.
And then I tried to
enable USB storage,
but that was a mistake.
I thought it meant I could plug in a USB drive and the Apple TV would play content off of it.
But no, it meant rebuilding the kernel so that any USB drive plugged in to the Apple TV would have its main disk copied to it.
The idea is that this external, much larger disk will be the new boot volume.
But that’s not what I wanted at all.
So the Apple TV got stuck, so .. I reset to factory settings (that’s a brilliant option, btw).
So, I know I can do it now.
The scripts “out there” are pretty rough and tumble.
I’m thinking I may create a Mac OS X 10.4.9 partition on my Mac Pro, just so that I can copy over all the missing frameworks and libraries so that I can get things like wget to work..
Using Jaiku now more than Twitter
I noticed this last week that Jaiku has an IM interface now, and I find my self using it more than Twitter. In many ways, Jaiku is like Twitter 2.0. Each status update can have comments appended to it, and an icon attached to it. There’s also the usual cell-phone integration too.MacHeist
Posted by rae in software
at 2:53 am on Monday, 14 January 2008
Well, with Macworld looming this week, there are lots of promotions out there.
I just bought a MacHeist bundle of several small apps.
I bought it for a few reasons:
at 2:53 am on Monday, 14 January 2008
- There are at least two really good apps, and one (Pixelmator) I’ve been curious about)
- A percentage of the price goes to a charity of my choice
- It’s pretty cheap for all those apps ($50)
Countdown to Ubuntu 7.10
OpenProj
Today’s SourceForge newsletter mentioned a project I hadn’t heard of before, OpenProj. A quick trip to the OpenProj SourceForge page later, and I realized another big Microsoft app had an open source replacement: MS Project. it’s written in Java, and there is no Mac-specific distribution, so I grabbed the OS-independent zip and just double-clicked the .jar file, which worked fine. Apparently it can read and write MS Project files too. I didn’t do much more than create a document and save it, but I’m hoping this will be a useful tool for free software projects all over.Talkshoe
talkshoe.com looks like an interesting alternative to Skype for online meetings/chats. If someone else could create an account and let me chat with them to try it out, I would appreciate it. Thoughts going out today to Peter and Laura and especially Jon.Chandler 0.7alpha4 released
The latest version of the open source application I work on is available for free download.- PPC Mac OS X (Chandler_osx_0.7alpha4.dmg)
- Intel Mac OS X (Chandler_iosx_0.7alpha4.dmg)
- Chandler_win_0.7alpha4.exe
- Chandler_linux_0.7alpha4.tar.gz
- upgrade notes
- Report Bugs
- Official Chandler page
WordPress catching on
It’s heartening to see the rest of the world climbing on board the WordPress bandwagon. Of course, *I’m* thinking of moving now to Typo. Bwah hah-hahhh.Mininova Torrent Jam

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