Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/30
If you use Mac and Windows machines, then – despite the Mac keyboards – it sometimes is handy to use Mac to remote login to a Windows machine.
For that, the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1 (especially the download <g>) comes in handy.
–jeroen
via: Microsoft Office for Mac Downloads and Updates | Office For Mac.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/20
One of the things hard when doing FireMonkey iOS development Delphi XE2 is that you have a multi stage process:
Basically you need to share your project files both ways between Windows and OS X.
Naturally, you would share files between your Mac and Windows using Samba. With the introduction of OS X Lion, the Samba support was rewritten, causing all sorts of problems.
One of the problems is that it uses a lot of CPU (I tried copying over a 40GB VM, and stopped because the fan in my MacBook Air was making so much noise, I was afraid it was going to take off).
I didn’t even realize it had one, but a MacBook Air has a Fan, and it vents through the keyboard :)
Now I use DropBox to share files between it. If you like that to, sign up with the URL at the end of this line. The 2GB account is free! http://db.tt/6f95UJW
And if you know a better way of sharing: please let me know!
–jeroen
Via: Dropbox – Referrals – Simplify your life.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/16
Right after finding out VMware Fusion 4 got released, I downloaded and installed it.
Basically, there are two VMware Fusion 4.0.1 downloads:
I can’t imagine McAfee being larger than the size of VMware, and if it has the same speed impact on a Mac as it has on PCs, then don’t get it: get the light version.
–jeroen
Via: Download VMware Fusion 4.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/15
My MacBook Air has arrived, a few days before VMware Fusion 4 got out and a very early preview of Windows 8 got released.
Time to move my iOS dev env from my Mac Mini Server dev env over to this fully loaded 13.3 inch MacBook Air model (A1369 with 1.8GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 / 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM / 256GB Flash Storage).
A few initial observations on the MacBook Air:
Oh well, will install it at the Embarcadero office later this week.
A few things on VMware Fusion 4:
Time to have a lot of fun :)
–jeroen
Via: VMware: VMware Support Insider: Fusion 4 is here!.
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1369
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/08
If you have a Mac, and enabled automatic login, then it is vulnerable to a FireWire password snooping bug.
Looking at that article, you should either:
–jeroen
via: Mac OS X Lion reveals passwords in sleep mode? | The Digital Home – CNET News.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/07/29
Last week, this was big news in the Apple world: the new Mac mini will ship without a built-in SuperDrive DVD-drive leaving room for a 2nd HDD drive.
New Mac Mini has no SuperDrive, but room for a second HDD - image courtesy of Engadget
This was in fact the main reason I bought a Mac Mini Server last year: it had 2 HDD drives built in and no SuperDrive.
The last time I used optical drives for storage media since was back when I bought a ThinkPad A20p early in 2000 (yes, I’ve lived in both the Mac and PC world for decades now).
One of the first things I did back then was buying an Ultrabay 2000 HDD Adapter, so I could fit in a second HDD and ditch the DVD-ROM player.
Since then, I loaded CDs and DVDs using ISO image files usingthe Daemon tools virtual DVD drive.
The Apple Mac lagged behind on this very much, I’m not sure at which Mac OS version they finally introduced support for ISO images in Disk Utility, no later than OS X in 2007 though.
Is this big news?
In the Mac world, apparantly so, but I have lived without optical drives for using data for over a decade now.
In fact, the only two reasons I still have DVD drives are:
Looking around me, I’m certainly not alone.
Having two HDDs (or three, like the ThinkPad A31p in 2002, and the ThinkPad W70x in 2008) makes it so much easier to make backups or have more storage.
I’m glad I have being able to to that for a very long time, even on a Mac.
–jeroen
via: Apple updates Mac mini: Core i5 and i7, Thunderbolt, AMD Radeon HD, no SuperDrive — Engadget.
PS: Don’t forget to hug your SysAdmin today!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/07/12
Good news for developers and IT engineers:
The new Mac OS X Lion EULA contains a phrase basically indicating you are a allowed to run 2 additional copies or instances of OS X Lion on each Mac already running OSX Lion.
This is a big change for OS X users.
For the beta, there were already steps on how to setup such a VM on a Mac or PC (including faking it to be the OS X Server), hopefully those steps have become a lot simpler now.
Probably these steps on how to make a OS X Bootable Installer from a USB Flash Drive helps too.
The OS X Lion release is already available to developers, and should be available to the general public really soon now.
–jeroen
via: Mac OS X Lion Supports Running Additional OS X Instances Within a Virtual Machine.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/07
When (or when not) to buy a new Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod.
Purely based on rumours and statistics.
–jeroen
via: Mac Buyer’s Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod or iPhone.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/11
Last week, Apple released OS X version 10.6.6, of which the main feature is the Mac App Store.
The about Mac OS X v10.6.6. Update document describes how to update.
In addition to the Mac App Store, this update also contains an Apple security updates: a fix for a PackageKit man-in-the-middle vulnerability.
Download: Mac OS X v10.6.6 Update (or perform an automatic download)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/12/24
A while ago, I got involved in Mac programming again after more than a decade of absence.
It felt like a warm reunion.
A Mac Mini Server serves as a development machine: it is about the same price as a regular Mac Mini, but packs 2 HDDs which for me is more useful than one HDD and a DVD player.
However, living in the Windows world for a long time long, and having had RSI in the DOS era almost two decades ago, I had a few wishes for using it.
The first was keyboard wise. The second is custom resolutions. Read the rest of this entry »
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