Here’s my notes on how I approached installing�OSX 10.9 on my Late 2007 MacBook (MacBook3,1). Note I did most of this on a current Mac running 10.9. Also, this kind of worked. I got the install to run but it wouldn’t boot after install. I’m probably quite close to it working. I’ll update this post with notes if I work …

Here’s my diary from the “epic” experience of simply trying to upgrade Alfresco installations from 4.2.c to 4.2.f. I found the community documentation to be dated and had minimal confidence in its current validity. Still, it helped. These are my final notes on the process and in actuality there were a lot of wrong …

Today I spent a fair while on a quest to display only page content on a Wordpress site of mine. The situation is that I’m trying to make a very easily updated marketing website for an online-learning project of mine. I like using a proprietary page slider for Wordpress (and other platforms, excluding my Moodle …

This is the tale of a man who was faced with colossal data loss. As his family photos seem to fade in to the ether and with nothing to lose, he drew a line in the digital sand. He gained a persona that day, he was no longer just “Tony: Loving husband and father”. No no, that fateful day this man also became The …

Recently I decided to try shuffling around my hardware and try a hackintosh setup on my recently acquired i7 box. I last dabbled in this stuff many years back with a P4 box. Suffice to say, my beloved 2008 era Mac Pro is starting to show some age and while I could upgrade it, Apple’s dragged ass in updating the Mac Pro …

I’ve been setting up a number of apt-cacher instances on different networks I run Ubuntu boxes on. This is a well documented process. I’m posting the key steps if only for my own reference later. apt-get install apt-cacher Edit /etc/default/apt-cacher add AUTOSTART=1. Edit /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf and make sure …

Thanks for all your profound, inspiring and helpful inventions Steve. You’ve made an admirable mark on the world.

I went to a Protospace talk recently where I listened to a wonderful 4 hour talk about Thorium based reactors. Suffice to say it was time wonderfully well spent. I’m so energized and psyched. I’ve really liked Nuclear power in the past, but that’s given way to this even better alternative. Seems a great deal safer and …

Exhibit A: Exhibit 2: Damn, seriously. Shaw Gigabit Fibre Internet doesn’t bother Transmitting Data, it TELEPORTS it! Here I sit in my bed @ my parent’s place on Christmas Eve. I decided to test out their new internet connection & router by enjoying another kind of “Eve”, Eve Online. The Air is on fire, but in the …

Howdy all, geek-mode enabled. So I’ve been fighting somewhat to get my AirPlay enabled device (Apple TV) to function perfectly. I use pfsense to run my router and in so doing I’ve got a Wireless and Wired network that are bridged together. I found with the AppleTV that only devices on the same physical media could …