Today I finally installed WinXP using Parallels on a MacBookPro. Too bad it wasn’t my MacBookPro. However, it was an interesting experience, everything just worked. Since Lance didn’t require any multimedia drivers for Windows all I needed to do in Parallels was give the virtual machine a some hard drive space (2GB), bridged access to [...]
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about listing aggregators and why the industry is so resistant to them. I’ve arrived at the conclusion that there are several different motivators working to reinforce the walls around listing data. For listing data to be opened this criteria must be met: Realtors must understand the value [...]
I got Lanny at FreeBSD Systems to start blogging. FreeBSD Systems doesn’t have a huge mindshare in the server hardware world and I thought that a corporate blog would help raise their profile a bit. One of the reasons I buy from Lanny is because he is a sysadmin selling servers instead of a salesman [...]
A while ago I bought a Benq M310 wireless mouse for my Powerbook. The M310 is a great little travel mouse, quite tiny (fits nicely in the palm of my hand), and light. The problem was that it didn’t work with OS X Tiger, something wrong with the RF receiver. After a bit of googling [...]