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Parallels Server for Mac Pricing
Fresh from my inbox.. Parallels Server for Mac will be available soon. As a thank you to all participating Parallels Server for Mac Beta users, Parallels is offering an exclusive discount on a single Parallels Server for Mac license. Purchase this new software for only $700* – a 30% savings. Hmm… well, the product has been working fairly…
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Netgear FVS114 – Worst POS SOHO Router Ever
Some of the worst infrastructural issues OpenRain has had since inception has been border hardware. We’ve been through all typical COTS models you’d find at Best Buy, but all have had issues with at least one of.. Dropping inbound traffic due to some stupid “DDoS Protection” feature we couldn’t disable. Not passing VPN traffic though…
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Leopard Server: Bonjour-Based DNS A Performance No-No
Prior to moving into the new OpenRain office (announcement coming in June), we used OS X’s magical .local addressing to find all our servers. This allowed us to keep almost everything on DHCP, which is trivial to set up and administer. Little did we know, however, that this was being the root cause of many…
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Five Major Apple Design Irritants
Apple, My software development firm–OpenRain in Arizona–spends buckets of money on your products. Stuff works pretty well in general, but you really need to address these issues. Really. PowerBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro power supply cables invariably rip. Not only that, but it’s always at the same freaking places. The MackBook/Pro power supplies are better…
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Pictures: Cape Cod
I was over in the Boston/Cape Cod area earlier this month. Only got to site see for a couple hours but still thought I’d share the few shots I have. What I learned while visiting.. My grandma once used Jackie O’s toilet. I’m about 2 megadollars short of being able to live there. Every photo you…
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Pictures: Costa Rican Landscapes
I recently returned from a week-long trip from Costa Rica. These are best frames from the trip and are intended for large format viewing. Flickr royally sucks at that (everything is shown low-res by default), but you can nab higher-def shots with a few clicks if you have a 24″+ monitor and would like to…
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Book Review: Digital Astrophotography, by Stefan Seip
Rocky Nook — a digital photography book publisher in California — sent me a review copy of Digital Astrophotography: A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos for review, which I read over the last few months. Pros A good overview of the techniques used in astrophotography. Well illustrated. Inexpensive. Largely easy to follow for the casual reader. Covers…
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New MacBook Pro Battery
The stock battery on my 1st-generation MacBook Pro has only been providing an hour of power as of late. When I hot-swapped in a fully charged new battery from my local Apple store, I was thrilled with the estimated remaining charge.. I highly doubt it will actually last this long, but one can dream. 🙂
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Dear TSA, Check Out The 4th Amendment. Thanks.
Just a little food for thought for your next airplane ride. The 4th amendment of the U.S. constitution reads.. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath…
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Sufficiency In Software Testing
When I was finishing up my B.S. I took a class in embedded software testing. The big assignment was to write the software that controls a single elevator, test the software to our satisfaction and deliver the whole shebang at the end of the semester. The critical lesson I learned from the course was…
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