Weeds, Snakes, and Bugs

Stasia’s Quote of the Day

webmaster — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:39:18 +0000

“What can you make me without butter?”

OS X Tab Skips Select Menus

webmaster — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:14:47 +0000

I always thought this was strange. When I tab through a web form, OS X skips over select menus, forcing me to click it with the mouse. Very tedious. But I’m so lazy, it took a year and change for me to Google it. And it’s just a stupid system preference.
http://www.tonyspencer.com/mt/archives/2006/05/tab_skips_selec.htm

How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently

scott — Fri, 26 May 2006 03:36:50 +0000

Here’s a thorough tutorial of how to best backup your Mac.

New Screenshots of $100 Laptop OS

scott — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:54:05 +0000

Fedora Core 5 will go on the $100 laptop - but how usable is it? Screenshots and complete review from a usability perspective.

Force Eject CD in OS X, with Parallels, running Windows XP, oops.

webmaster — Tue, 23 May 2006 02:16:26 +0000

I feel silly writing this, but more than that I feel obliged to try and help my fellow moron.

Twice now I’ve had a DVD get stuck in my Mac Book Pro. There are several ways to force eject a CD/DVD, though my favorite (the one I remember) is to boot while holding down the mouse button. But I just figured out what my real problem was. Windows XP, running in Parallels, was mounting my DVD instead of OS X. That’s why I couldn’t mount or eject it from OS X.

Howto: Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X Tiger

scott — Mon, 22 May 2006 01:30:34 +0000

There are already 12 million documents out there claiming to explain this, but for one reason or another I couldn’t get any of them to work as written. This one works.