Installing Passenger without gcc

I ran into a minor issue today while trying to install Phusion Passenger on a web server I’m setting up; I don’t install development tools on my web servers. I have a whole mess of reasons for why I do this, the primary being that it makes keeping several different servers (ie, production and development) in [...]

How to recover from grey screen on boot

The 10.5.3 update crashed on me this morning and left my Mac Pro in a funny bit of broken.  I got a grey screen on boot and then nothing.  No Apple logo, no spinning wheel, nothing.  After about 10 minutes I got the globe icon (I think this says it’s looking for netboot servers).  Anyway, [...]

iPhone Enterprise Thoughts…

So I have a few lingering questions from the big iPhone event yesterday. First, what about Apple’s server products?  Where is the support for iCal Server?  Also, along that, what about wireless sync for non-enterprise users?  I realize this wasn’t the focus of the event, I just hope they’re going to provide something.  What I’d like [...]

A Simple Fix for Spaces

http://www.pascal.com/diary/?p=183.  The idea basically is to provide an option for power users that would stop Spaces from ever switching your space for you.  If Safari is open in space 1 and you’re on space 3 and click on Safari in the Dock, it would open a new Safari window for you, rather than darting you [...]

Im in ur car, playin ur mediaz

This is just too cool.

Apple Makes Really Great Windows Machines

I’ve been saying this ever since Boot Camp came out. At work the first thing we do when we get any new computer in is to wipe the hard drive and put our Windows image on it. After that you tend to spend a couple hours re-installing all of the drivers and the [...]

JWZ Gets It

Groupware Bad.  So who wants to build it on top of Leopard’s calendar server?

Let’s do the time-warp again!

Via (Pharyngula)

What inside?

Do you like stickers as much as this guy?

What do you want?

Ask Microsoft Word’s thesaurus for synonyms for information.(via I Am Joe’s Blog)