Category: 664: Server Setup at Home, Hidden Exposé Features, Repair of the Week

I spent this past Memorial Day weekend in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, near where my wife is from. My brother-in-law, Kurt, was there, and we had an enlightening experience while trying to fix a trailer of his. The trailer’s right axle tube had failed and the tire had begun to rub on the chassis.…

A 17-inch MacBook Pro came in last week because it would not respond to trackpad gestures. This 2.6GHz model had just been upgraded with a solid state drive and 6GB of RAM, and was in perfect physical condition. The customer explained that he swapped in his old hard drive in an attempt to fix the…

Exposé debuted with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) in October 2003. Panther was a vast improvement over 10.2 (Jaguar) in terms of speed, stability, and features. I found that Jaguar would lock up at random, no matter the hardware it was running on; restarting could take up to ten minutes on my Power Mac G5…

For about a year now I’ve been using a Mac mini at home as a consumer-level entertainment server. It’s a baseline model that I added a 320GB internal hard drive and an external 2TB RAID to. It’s a very basic setup, the Mac mini is connected to my television for video output, a receiver that…

Happy Tuesday, Memorial Day weekend was spent with good friends, good food, and my friend Jon’s new Australian cattle dog Penny. She’s eight weeks old and kisses just like Waylon, her older brother from another litter. I wish I had a “Flip Camera”:http://www.smalldog.com/search/?find=flip+digital to record some high definition video of the puppy’s first trip home,…