HyperionReactor The Middle Child of History

This should fix issues with making MacOSX talk to Ubuntu (Samba)

1. Make sure that you are not currently connected to any Samba or Windows (SMB/CIFS) servers and that you do not have any Samba or Windows-related error messages open.
2. Open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/).
3. At the prompt, type: sudo pico /etc/nsmb.conf
4. Press Return.
5. Enter your password when prompted, then press Return again.
6. You should see an empty file and a "New File" notice at the bottom of the pico window. If you do not see the "New File" notice, this file already exists.

bq. " Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Google has finally committed to providing better support to the Mac platform. Hopefully we can now see better support for Writely and Google Calendars in Safari.

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h3. What is monotone?

Monotone is a free distributed version control system. it provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol. it understands history-sensitive merging, lightweight branches, integrated code review and 3rd party testing. it uses cryptographic version naming and client-side RSA certificates. it has good internationalization support, has no external dependencies, runs on linux, solaris, OSX, windows, and other unixes, and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

_Taken from the monotone website_

I finally got bored of using NetNewsWire, and moved to Vienna, I am pretty happy with the features, and the nifty NetNewsWire2Vienna port script.

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h3. Quick feature roundup

* Clean simple and uncluttered UI
* RSS and Atom support
* Builtin browser thats easy to use
* Smart folders (just like Mail.app)
* Folder Groups (organize stuff)
* Import and Export to OPML
* Scheduled Refresh
* Flag articles that you like
* Customizable reading panes
* A good number of styles (create your own with basic HTML and CSS knowledge)

"Jon":http://www.jonbruck.com/ convinced me a while back to move all my email to Gmail, since its easier to archive and search ( Gmail rocks at this ). I had to format my laptop a while back because I removed some libs that made the entire system unstable.

Another reason for moving all my mail to Gmail was to reduce SPAM. On a good day I get about 200 SPAM mails. Mail.app did a pretty good job of reducing this to about 50. This number reduced to 2-5 once I started piping it through Gmail.

Now because I had moved all my mail to Gmail, I did not have to bother backing up all my emails, because Gmail already had them archived for me. I have one gmail account which I use for my free software and consulting address. I spent a good number of hours trying to figure out how to get Mail.app to use multiple addresses with a single Mail.app account.

At first I thought I could check out Thunderbird since its opensource, I could just hack the source code and integrate it with the MacOSX's Addressbook.app. But then I would also have to hack it to support multiple email addresses per account. Once I weighed all the pros and cons, It seemed to be smarter to hack Mail.app through Apple Script or write a Proxy for my outgoing mail in Ruby.

Finally I figured it out. What if i just entered a bunch of email addresses seperated by commas (like you normally do when you want to send it to multiple people) in the Email setup? Would it work? Yes! It did work!

Here is a small tute on backing up your mail at Gmail and using it with Mail.app. If you have already setup Gmail to support multiple email addresses you can just skip to the second section.

myNotes is the notetaking program with groundbreaking ease of use and innovative printing capabilities. Its simple and customizable interface lets you focus on notes, ideas or your diary, while printable themes let you print it with different styles.

Some of the neat features are live search, drag and drop, unicode support, printable themes and auto backup and restoring. MyNotes makes it so easy to takes notes while your at a client meeting or in class, I think Apple should give away a copy of MyNotes with its "Back to School" Program.

Right now Im using it to manage my to do lists, client meetings, code snippets and project information. I have been using MyNotes for over 4 to 5 months and I don't think it has ever crashed on me.

Ever wanted to know how many cycles your Apple Powerbook battery has done?


ioreg -l | grep Capacity


Most Powerbooks should work well upto 300-500 cycles.