Lattes and Mobile Posting

This is just a quick post to test a new mobile client for Word­Press. I haven’t had the chance to keep this site updated while away from the com­puter. Hope­fully, this soft­ware will allow me to make new entries from an iPhone while trav­el­ling.
The pic­ture is just another exces­sively noisy Star­bucks packed with people using the new glossy MacBooks.

Apple Releases Mac OS 10.5.4 Update

The new update to Leop­ard has just been released. The 88 MB (561 MB for the Combo) 10.5.4 patch is avail­able from the built-​in Soft­ware Update util­ity, or as a sep­a­rate down­load from Apple’s site. Accord­ing to the site, the update is rec­om­mended to all users and includes gen­eral fixes that enhance sta­bil­ity, com­pat­i­bil­ity and security.

More details can be found at the Apple Sup­port sec­tion. The changes listed include: recent Apple secu­rity updates, resolves an issue with saving and reopen­ing Adobe Cre­ative Suite 3 files on a remote server, includes addi­tional RAW image sup­port for sev­eral cam­eras, addresses an issue that may result in a par­tially installed X11 appli­ca­tion, improves L2TP VPN client reli­a­bil­ity, [Read more]

Apple Releases Mac OS 10.5.3 Update

The new update to Leop­ard has just been released. The 420 MB 10.5.3 patch is avail­able from the built-​in Soft­ware Update util­ity, or as a sep­a­rate down­load from Apple’s site. Accord­ing to the site, the update is rec­om­mended to all users and includes gen­eral fixes that enhance sta­bil­ity, com­pat­i­bil­ity and security.

More details can be found at the Apple Sup­port sec­tion. The changes listed include: Air­Port fixes; Time Machine fixes, includ­ing com­pat­i­bil­ity issues with Aper­ture 2; sev­eral Spaces prob­lems addressed; many Mail issues resolved; Address Book, Automa­tor, iCal, iChat, Parental Con­trols, and VoiceOver received numer­ous fixes and improve­ments; new cam­eras sup­ported in RAW Image; much more.

Many other improve­ments are listed in the offi­cial doc­u­ment: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update.

The stand­alone down­load can be found at: Mac OS X 10.5.3 Combo Update.

Revised Thumbnail Creator for the Revolution Pro Theme

Some people were expe­ri­enc­ing prob­lems with the orig­i­nal thumb­nail gen­er­a­tor. Automa­tor is not exactly a robust piece of soft­ware making debug­ging not much fun.

I’ve broken the orig­i­nal appli­ca­tion in three parts with a main work­flow call­ing each one in turn. Although this is less ele­gant and a bit more com­pli­cated to install, it should be more reliable.

The down­load now con­sists of folder con­tain­ing 4 mini work­flows. Here’s how to get it work­ing: [Read more]

Reverse IP Lookup: How Many Neighbors You Have?

Just recently I changed web hosts. While doing my research to find a reli­able com­pany, one of the para­me­ters I wanted to inves­ti­gate was how many and what kind of sites were hosted on the same server.
Many com­pa­nies try to stuff as many cus­tomers as they can into the same machine to save costs. This became spe­cially notice­able in the last few years with the advent of the big “over­seller” com­pa­nies promis­ing enor­mous amounts of disk space and band­width at impos­si­ble low prices. Every­one has seen those offer­ings: “1 TB disk space and unlim­ited band­width for just US$ 5 / month!”, etc. Their rea­son­ing is that since most users have low demands or inac­tive accounts, it doesn’t make a dif­fer­ence to pack a truck­load of them in the same space as long as the aver­age is not sig­nif­i­cantly affected.
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