Archive for May, 2006
New Screenshots of $100 Laptop OS
Thursday, May 25th, 2006Fedora 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.
Monday, May 22nd, 2006I 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
Sunday, May 21st, 2006There 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.