Raincheck-Cashin' Time
Time for another mega-sized link dump courtesy of Y.T.
Important things first: Capcom is producing a sequel to Bionic Commando for the next-gen consoles. Awesome. I loved the original NES title, even though its callous lack of save codes or battery backup made it impossible to finish under my parents' old "only 1 hour [...]
Skitch Invites (5 Of 'Em)
There's a nifty new app out for the Mac called Skitch — it's a bit hard to describe, but the demo video on the Skitch site does a decent job of doing so. Basically, it's a screen capture/markup tool with a distinct Flickr, et al. aspect to it.
I managed to snag a beta invite [...]
A Bountiful Link-Filled Catch-Up
I am fully cognizant of my delinquent blogging — apologies all around. I've been in full recovery mode since taking the redeye from SFO to PHL on Friday night. Short observations on that flight? Sucked like a brand-new Dyson 07 with the full pet hair kit. Stupid US Airways.
In exchange for my [...]
Conference Observations
There are around 5,000 people at WWDC this year. Excluding Apple and Moscone employees, I think I have seen 25-30 women, total. The ratio of males:females is quite literally 100-150:1.
It's odd interacting with the Mac geekery, being the old Linux/UNIX head that I am. After attending the "Stump the Experts" session last [...]
Sequestered No More!
Just got out of a marathon sysadminning session where my team lead and I did quite a bit of architecting, planning, troubleshooting and strategerizing.
All I have to say is that Apple rocks for their dscl and dsconfigldap command line tools and "bind_policy = soft" is your friend for Linux hosts using LDAP.
