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• The PowerBook is Back Phew. After what felt like 7-to-10 days without my laptop, I picked it up from the Roseville Apple Store this afternoon. It was a complete zoo there; line half-way to the door, people packed in the aisles, boxes of iPod Nano cases everywhere. Crazy. Anyway, the PowerBook is all shiny and clean, speakers work, mic works,
• How to Set Up a Linksys Router with Mac OS X  “INSERT CD FIRST”, screamed the sticker on the back of the Linksys wrt54g router. A decade with Macintoshes has taught me the suggestions are normally for Windows machines. The router was persistent - and the sticker was blocking the power port - so, I thought I’d humor it. I was right. The CD shipping was
• eMac Fax Modem Killed My Phone Line I had to send a couple faxes yesterday. Something I do so infrequently that I just use the OS X’s built-in faxing on these rare occasions. The modem on my Powerbook hasn’t been working right for a while now - neither has the disc drive. I’m getting a real good idea of how much I
• How To Set Up Subversion, svnX, for TextDrive on OS X I’m walking through the latest beta version of Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition, specifically the new bits on deploying Rails apps. Capistrano - the preferred and recommended deployment utility. Thing is - Capistrano hinges on Subversion. Not something covered in AWDwR or appropriate to be covered. There’s plenty of other books on the
• How To Install MacPorts, Apache2, Rails, MySql, Mongrel, and Subversion on an Intel Mac Now that I’m just about ready to deploy my first rails app, I thought I’d get the deployment environment set up rock solid on both the production and the development machines (one Mac Mini and one MacBookPro). Like many other tutorials on this same subject, your mileage may vary. In fact I’m writing this now, because