Mac Mini Rebuild

After two weeks of downtime my new Mac Mini has arrived. Its an eBay purchase so the 30% discount was worth the extra week of wait.
Ended up getting the processor I wanted but opted for minimal ram, hard drive and just a dvd reader since those parts worked well on my defective mini.
First step, open [...]

February 5, 2008 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: main • No Comments

Refresh OS X Finder

The Apple products and community never cease to amaze me. When there is a problem to solve more than likely someone has already created an elegant solution. An experience I had today reinforced my findings ten fold.
I have a few shares on a network drive that I connect from OS X via Samba. Files get [...]

August 26, 2007 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: main • 3 Comments

Google Groups Beta… Impressed.

So Google has launched a Beta Groups site and I have been using it for a while now and all I can say is I am pretty impressed. It has kept my attention alot longer than I was planning to be reading my groups. For one the interface is alot better, this are orgainized [...]

October 4, 2006 • Tags: , , • Posted in: main • No Comments

Time for a new computer

So i broke down today and i bought a new computer. Well it is going to replace my current first generation Mac Mini G4 1.42 Ghz. Basically i found myself pretty much waiting 60% of the time instead of programming. Just having Eclipse, Photoshop, Apache, Firefox and iTunes open grinds this little machine to a [...]

October 1, 2006 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: main • No Comments