Fawning
Turn existing VMDK into ZFS VOL and use ISCSI to access it from different system
jhm – Fri, 2011 – 07 – 22 14:09
I have several servers running Solaris 10u9 with VirtualBox server installed. Each of those hosts can manage several guest. Currently I use VirtualBox multiattach image types to clone guests from master images. This doesn't require me to use clonehd on the master images, which is a very time consuming process.
Gizmo as Widget
jhm – Wed, 2008 – 12 – 17 11:55
Is this the killer (web) app that will finally help push Gizmo as SIP based VOIP client over the horizon to compete with Skype?
I can only hope so. Call quality is equally good with Gizmo and it uses an open standard chat protocol (XMPP) and open standard VOIP protocol (SIP), versus all proprietary with Skype.
Newton Virus
jhm – Thu, 2008 – 03 – 06 09:57
This totally reminds me of the Amiga ...
iPhone sensory deprivation
jhm – Sat, 2008 – 02 – 09 20:30
After having had an iTouch for a couple of months, I couldn't deal with the regular cell phone user interface anymore (I caught myself swiping over the display to make my phone book scroll on my Motorola SLVR).
Barak Obama's Speech in New Hampshire
jhm – Tue, 2007 – 04 – 03 14:16
If you want to get an impression about Senator Obama's eloquence and Humor and Charisma, check out this video of a speech he gave in New Hampshire. Among other things it explains the origin of the title for his book, Audacity Of Hope.
Dictionary Shortcut
jhm – Sat, 2006 – 11 – 11 08:42
Researching about Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts I found something nice on the Mac OS X 10.4 wiki.
With the help of a the ⌃⌘D keyboard shortcut one can produce a nice dictionary popup for the word the cursor is over.
Mail and keybord shortcuts
jhm – Sat, 2006 – 11 – 11 08:16
was looking for a way to Toggle Mail.app's preview pane from the menu or keyboard. The link gives instructions of what needs to be done. Now I just need to get it to work on Tiger w/o Quicksilver
update
I used Mail Act-On with a specific Rule to accomplish what I want.
Change AppleHighlightColor for Preview.app
jhm – Thu, 2006 – 08 – 10 10:00
Recently I got annoyed using the find feature in the Preview.app and not being able to see the found strings easily.
JavaScript Debugging in Safari
jhm – Wed, 2006 – 08 – 02 14:05
Trying to accomplish serious web development with the Mac OS X Safari browser is hampered by the fact that Javascript debugging is not available to the level possible with Firefox and, lets say, the FireBug extension.
Wake On LAN for OS X
jhm – Thu, 2006 – 07 – 13 09:08
Recently there was an interesting discussion on a work related mac-alias how to actually use the Wake On LAN feature on Macs that support it.