Technology

Happy to report that the Airport Extreme can map internal requests to external port mappings. Whew.

DNS-O-Matic is pretty darn cool. Happy days!

Dogs and/or Cat pulled the Firewire cable out of the Drobo again. Grrr!

Installing Parallels 4.0.
So great: Vista has decided it is no longer “genuine” in the middle of the Parallels 4.0 upgrade. Vista, I hate you. Really. Hate.
Windows XP images seem to have upgraded to Parallels 4.0 fine. Windows Vista? BSOD and seems completely SOL.

So, when can we get a POTUS Podcast going. Please add that to the list for change.gov.

My MacBook Pro is up to 133 °F. No wonders my arms are sweating. Time to shut it down for the night. Time to sleep.

Upgrading my home server from Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron) to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).

Upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 was totally easy, breezy.

Initial estimate shows that dropping DirecTV and going iTunes/Apple TV plus OTA HD will save me $432 a year.

I can do all sorts of things on DirecTV.com, except for cancel my service. So common on the web, but so rude.

Leopard seems much faster talking NFS as compared to SMB.

The USB drive on my Airport Extreme just blew chow - complete erase and new filesystem. There goes four machines Time Machine history.