“get to go play with Sharepoint for a bit. Have to launch Parallels so I can get into the site. That counts as strikes 1 through 94. – dnorman
Category Archives: Macintosh
ColdFusion Beta program for Leopard and 64-bit OSs
Ready to move your Macs to Leopard, but waiting for CF support? There’s a beta opening now. See Kristen Shofield’s Blog for more information.
Which JVM for ColdFusion development on Mac?
I’ve been having a lot of UI freezes lately on my MacBook Pro. The system will lock up for 20-30 seconds, with mouse movement, but no responses to clicks or the keyboard. I’m suspecting that this is something to do with CF 8 and/or Eclipse on Apple’s Java 1.5 JVM. Read more »
Problems (and a Few Solutions) Installing Adobe CS3
So we got our media for Adobe Creative Suite 3 last week, and I’ve been fighting with the installs on various systems for the last few days. Some notes from the battlefield: That popping sound you heard was sudden obsolescence Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth are only supported on multicore Read more »
Appleiphany
Appleiphany (noun): The feeling experienced when using or viewing an Apple device, questioning why the heck things haven’t worked like this all along. Example: When viewing the recent iPhone Guided Tour, I kept asking myself why mobile phones don’t already do all this stuff… seriously, it’s so dang obvious. See Read more »
Installing OS X Software Updates from the Terminal
I discovered today that one of our Mac servers had not correctly shifted to Daylight Savings Time on Sunday…. somewhere along the line this box dropped of our sysadmin’s watch list. Unfortunately, I was on the road so I couldn’t get to the console to run the update myself. Now Read more »
Holy Xeons!
Wow… ColdFusion MX on the MacPro is fastfastfast. It took a while to get it set up since it isn’t technically supported, but wow. WOW I say. I skimped at least on one step: I didn’t recompile mod_jrun on this box. Since I’d gone through that process on the MacBook Read more »
Setting Up the Mac Pro
I finally took possession of my new Mac Pro this week. Lovin’ it so far. So why the delay? I’ve been using Parallels since I got my MacBook Pro last summer with a Win2k image I built myself. With the sudden proliferation of Intel Macs around the office, the last Read more »
First Look at VMWare Fusion Beta for OS X
VMWare has finally released the promised version of their virtualization product for OS X: http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion/ I got the email notice about its availability just before the holidays, but I only got around to playing with it this week. So far it seems to be a bit behind Parallels Desktop in Read more »
My Mac Pro has arrived… almost!
I received word last week that my new Mac Pro has arrived, but our IT group is a bit backed up. It will probably be next week before they finish staging the system. They’ve at least unpacked the beast — I recently discovered a monstrous, empty Mac Pro box abandoned Read more »