I have seen several articles over the years indicating that there are no problems in using a standard / client version of OS X as a server instead of using the OS X Server version, which is a darn sight more expensive. And indeed I have used a Mac mini with a client version . . . → Read More: Using Snow Leopard instead of Snow Leopard Server?
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Digital Inspiration has an interesting idea for people who have to log on to multiple web sites from public computers, or just for people who want secure passwords even if they don’t spend a lot of time in internet cafes. It uses paper. If you use the same password for multiple sites, you . . . → Read More: A paper-based password system Recently Ruth asked me to set up a new website for her and some other textile artists who she has met. So I set up Use Your Eyes for them. Ruth was quite taken with the design, and decided she wanted her own blog Sew2Speak changing to use a similar skin, which is what . . . → Read More: Ruth’s new websites It is surprising how many large companies which like to think of themselves as international, and who advertise in the international press can’t cope with having customers in countries other than their home land. From our own recent experience: A subsidiary of a British bank – one of the national brands – . . . → Read More: International? Not us mate! Apple is building a new 1 billion dollar data center, five times larger than it’s existing one in California. Supposedly, to start offering “cloud computing” services (i.e. allowing users to store their data on the web, or use web-based applications). Everyone’s major concern about cloud computing, is “What happens to my data if . . . → Read More: So where’s the backup going to be? I have just subscribed to Humyo.de (they also have an address at Humyo.com for english speaking users). Humyo offer an interesting service. You can backup 10GB of your local data to their servers for free, or you can pay €59.50 a year for 100GB of storage and also use a utility that you get . . . → Read More: Humyo doesn’t like long file names The newspaper industry has taken a deep breath and decided to jump into the waters, putting their content behind pay-to-read walls on the web. I think they are going to get badly burnt unless they cooperate closely with each other. Honeywell 316 Home Computer (picture from Wikipedia) There’s an interesting short article in Wired: In 1969, the Neiman Marcus catalog offered the first home PC, a stylish stand-up model called the Honeywell Kitchen Computer, priced at $10,600. The picture shows an aproned housewife caressing the machine, with this tag line: “If she can only . . . → Read More: Home computers have come a long way in 40 years … the executors and anyone else needing access to the documentation about my estate could have several problems. The same applies in the case of my wife, Ruth: a lot of our insurance policies, contracts and so on are in German the remainder are in English, so an understanding of both languages will . . . → Read More: When I’m dead and gone… Apple’s OS X has one “feature” which periodically causes me a lot of grief. Not often, because once I have fallen over it, it takes several years until I forget and make the mistake again. I use Windows PCs at work, and there, if I copy a directory’s contents into another directory, it effectively . . . → Read More: Copy folders like in Windows, on the Mac |
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