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When you upgrade to Snow Leopard, there’s a pretty good chance your MacPorts will be broken. The problem, apparently, is due to the switch to x64. The solution is to remove and reinstall everything ports related. The following worked for me.
First, make a list of your installed ports, and then remove them:
port installed > [...]
If you’re a Linux or Mac user and sometimes download torrents, there’s a decent chance you have a couple of outboard hard drives to hold all that legal, public-domain data. If those drives are formatted as NTFS that probably means you are using the NTFS-3G filesystem driver. Unfortunately, because of the wildly parallel [...]
After twenty years of using Microsoft software on a daily basis, I’ve switched to the Mac. Specifically a 13″ Macbook Pro. There are two reasons for this.
First, the hardware is beautiful. In my opinion, these new unibody Macbooks are easily the most attractive personal computing devices ever designed. In fact, from [...]
Did you know you could have Facebook in pirate English? Go to Settings -> Languages and give it a shot. Arrr!
My local Atlantic Superstore has a sale on 2GB USB drives for $9.99 this week. Unlike most cheapie drives, these ones actually pass the Windows ReadyBoost test with respectable numbers of 4809 KB/sec for random read and 1920 KB/sec sequential write. As an added bonus, the case looks like it might actually hold together for [...]
After nearly three years, I finally decided to upgrade my venerable first-generation Motorola Razr to something a little more modern.
The iPhone 3G seems to be the new hotness, so I patiently waited on the list for a few days until last Thursday when I got a call from my friendly neighborhood Rogers dealer to come [...]
After ten years with my old Kenwood VR-206 home theatre receiver, I’ve finally decided to upgrade. The winner is, the Yamaha HTR-6160. I’ve always found Yamaha receivers to have a natural sound, and this one supports the newer standards including Dolby True-HD and DTS-HD Master, both of which are commonly found on the Blu-Ray movies [...]
If you look at some of the back-end structures of Group Policy Manager, you may notice some odd names. First off, most of the dll’s in the Program Files directory start with "Quest.Avalanche". Avalanche is the internal code name for the product. Like many software companies, we don’t necessarily know what the final product name [...]
A while back, the hard drive in my new laptop started to make a scary-sounding clicking sound. Rather than wait for it to fail, I decided to contact my friendly IS rep and have the machine replaced.
Now, normally, this would entail a few days of reinstalling Windows, copying my data over, reinstalling all my apps, [...]
I am building a PowerShell SnapIn (more on that in another), and decided it should have a proper Windows installer. Of course, at the time I decided this, I was at the Shoe. No matter. I pulled out my trusty laptop and added a WiX project to my snapIn solution. Next I added my files [...]