News: “Snow Leopard, Time Machine, and Iomega ix4-200d”

Posted: December 9th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Snow Leopard, Time Machine, and Iomega ix4-200d on blog.scottlowe.org
Topics: Mac OS X, Mac OS X v10.5, MacBook Pro, Time Machine, Property list, Apple Terminal, Apple Filing Protocol, MacBook

Chad Sakac of EMC (visit his weblog here) recently sent me an Iomega ix4-200d storage unit. Considering that I didn’t need it for my VMware lab—which runs both EMC and NetApp storage arrays—I pressed it into service at home. I…


News: “Shane Caraveo: Better local development with VMs”

Posted: May 22nd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Shane Caraveo: Better local development with VMs on Planet Mozilla
Topics: Intel 80386, Bonjour, Apple Filing Protocol, Mac OS X, MacBook

I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 in a VM Image strictly for the purposes of setting up a simple local dev environment on my MacBook. This is the base image, which I want to configure with some useful but general capabilities. The…