syslogd and my wondering wtf is going on
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in random |So last night I discovered the Twitterverse screensaver in the Developers folder included with Xcode via TUAW and as I was trying to get the damn screensaver to work I noticed a problem I was having a while back... As I ...
Mike Rapin’s Guide to Web Searching via Quicksilver
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in info, mac os x |So, there I was in my chemistry lecture, too lazy to reach into my backpack on the floor and pull out my calculator to solve a simple problem written on the board by my professor (who is a bad ass, ...
SNES and my Mac
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in random |So, I got the urge yesterday to play some Super Nintendo, specifically Super Mario World, but I don't have a Super Nintendo, so what's the next best thing?An emulator! Wow! For those of you who don't know what an emulator is... ...
Liveblog: 1.1.3 firmware for the iPod Touch
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in liveblog, mac os x |So here we have it guys, my restore of my hacked iPod and and trying out the normal 1.1.3. Lets see how this works... (Mind you I paid for the extra awesome apps: Mail, Stocks, etc.) 3:48PM - Seeing that I ...
Back to Firefox
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Posted in mac os x, random |So, as I said a while ago, I had switched over to Camino until Firefox 3 came out... I lied. I managed to stick with Camino 100% for about 2 days before I started using Safari and Firefox. Why? Because I ...
3 advantages and disadvantages of Camino
Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted in mac os x, random |As of yesterday (12/12/07) I have decided to switch over to Camino (I'm writing from it right now!) from the ever-so-wonderful-but-not-so-Mac-or-Leopard-ready Mozilla Firefox. Mind you, I have only been using Camino for a little over a day, but I used ...
syslogd got you down? Try this fix
Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted in mac os x |So, I was having a serious issue this morning with my CPU on my MacBook running at around 120% for the first hour of work (actually this was happening last night while I was away from my computer too) and ...
Daily Links (10/31/07)
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in Daily Links |Oh snap! It's Halloween! What are/did you dress up as? Well, I'm dressed as Ness. The end. I win. Here's your links: Teeny Tiny, Itsy Bitsy Linux box via Digg The US sucks at media because... via Digg Linux punches Windows passwords in ...
Leopard; likes and dislikes
Sunday, October 28th, 2007 Posted in mac os x |So, as I go along this week I'm going to update this post with my likes and dislikes of Leopard. Here's my initial list: Likes: 1. The look of the default Mac Installer program 2. Stacks 3. The amazingly smartness of Spaces 4. Being able ...
Leopard is upon us
Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted in liveblog, mac os x |Ladies and Gents! It has begun. Leopard, Apple's newest installment of Mac OS X (10.5) is here and I, Mike Rapin (aka Gambit), am going to install... today. I'll be 'live blogging' this experience as I go along, so keep watching for ...