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OMG:
More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.This applies to new Intel based Macs of course. I knew this was possible, but for a variety of long held reasons I didn't think it would happen officially (and I figured they'd thwart the unofficial mods enough that it wouldn't be attractive to the normal person.) But once again I was wrong. With a few misgivings I am very happy to see this move.
As elegant as it gets
Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows.(1) Boot Camp will burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don't have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them.
Run XP natively
Once you've completed Boot Camp, simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. (That's the "alt" key for you longtime Windows users.) After starting up, your Mac runs Windows completely natively. Simply restart to come back to Mac.
I am finally on the home stretch building my new software. This has taken *way* longer than I expected. But I am fairly pleased with it. All features are now present, although there is a lot of tweaking and bug hunting still to go.
Ran across DabbleDB today. It looks very similar to what I am building. Not sure if that is a bummer or not. At the very least I wish I had gone much faster.
Breaking news: our RSS feeds now return the proper if-modified-since and Etag headers. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Google.com was offline today for at least several minutes. Maybe longer. Not sure if this has to do with their big data center move or whether the apocalypse is upon us. It will be interesting to learn what really happened.
Put the entire Wikipedia on an iPod.
My data center just raised my colocation pricing by 50% starting 4/1. Wow. That completely blows my mind. I liked that place but am looking for another provider now.
Multi-touch interaction experiments. Check the top right video. Nice interface!
While not directly related, here's a recent Apple patent application for a gesture controlled user interface. Seems a lot more interesting in light of the video above.
Just pointed the datamantic dns at the new server. I had dialed the time to live on the old entry down to 300 seconds, but I only did that 24 hours ago, so I may get a little bitten with a delay (the old time to live was 48 hours.) But I'm just too anxious to wait. Fingers crossed.
Wow. What a fun day. All sorts of problems but I managed to sort them all out. I feel like I am starting to get good at this (I know, saying that is asking for trouble!)
Upgraded to PHP 5, but then mysql was not working from PHP. This pretty easy to solve but took me most of the day. Moral of the story is: errors are your friend - check the error logs. Getting a definite error is your biggest possible clue. When restarting apache it was telling me (via the apache error_log) that it couldn't load the module mysql.so because the file didn't exist in /usr/local/php4. Of course it didn't, since I just upgraded to PHP 5. Poking around a bit showed that the module was really in /usr/local/php/modules, so a quick edit to php.ini to set the correct location, and then another restart of apache, and everything was fine.
You wouldn't believe how long it took me to figure that out. I thought the yum install was the culprit. On the plus side I learned a bunch while sorting it out.
Anyway, outside of a few problems like that things are going very well. Should see some real progress this weekend.
Connectivity problems solved! Sometimes it pays to ask.