the difference that is no difference makes no difference
So I’ve been using my Macbook for several weeks now with the keyboard in a somewhat bastardised form. To recap, the keyboard on my refurb’d macbook seems to work ok if I type slow, but is complete rubbish missing lots of keystrokes if I type fast. I took it to an Apple service centre and […]
Like many IT professionals, I have friends and family who ask me various computer help questions, and also get me to do system upgrades. This is usually for Windows XP based systems. Recently my inlaws were hinting that they wanted to upgrade. For a few years now they’ve had an old Athlon 1800, 384MB of […]
OK, rather than continue to whinge about this macbook keyboard I took it in to an Apple Service Centre. As I’ve said, the symptom I have is that the keyboard works fine if I type slowly, but if I type fast, I get lots of characters missing. Some more than others (the L, P and […]
As a Unix sysadmin, I am using ssh every day. Its an innocuous little tool thats absolutely essential. Sure it does terminal sessions, but its all the other little features that make it quite indespensable; port forwarding, agent forwarding …. And they always seem to add in cool features that I never find out about […]
OK, so I’ve had the macbook a week now. I’m using it as my main computer and the keyboard is painful. I’m still doing lots of typos when I type fast. Especially the ‘l’ and ‘y’ keys. I’ve started to think that maybe it really is faulty, however other people seem to be annoyed as […]
Yes, I caved in and bought a macbook. Sure I have a mac mini, but my primary machine is my Thinkpad T42, so switching to a macbook is a big change. I still think Macs are too expensive, so I ended up going to the online Apple store and ordering a refurbished one. It’s the […]
OK, so my adventure working out of NZ is over. My trip back involved stopping in London and Belgium and Japan on the way back. London was cold, wet and expensive. Belgium was slightly less cold and wet and Japan was ‘just right’. This is my second trip to Japan, and it’s such an interesting […]
So I’ve had my Mac Mini for about half a year now. I thought the base 1GB configuration should have been good enough, but lately the Mac has been ‘feeling’ like the slowest machine here. I’ve already mentioned that the Mac Mini is not good for running VMware. And I have a lot of trouble […]
My Mac mini has wifi and bluetooth built in. I’m not a big fan of either so I have them both turned off. The mac makes this easy. There are bluetooth and wifi icons on the main menu bar. If you pop down a menu for either you can turn them off. I assumed that […]
UPDATE: The following post is referring to the user-mode NFS server that some linux distributions had when I wrote the post back in 2007. Now (2013), most distro’s just use the kernel based NFS server, which does not include the uid/gid remapping as far as I am aware. My debian etch box is a […]
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