Did you think I wasn’t going to publish the podcast anymore? WRONG! I’m back, and with a mammoth episode for good measure: a whopping 57 minutes that will guide you through the intricacies and nuances of how everything man-made gets old, and how we can learn to avoid the frustration caused by being unable to update…
Tag: os x
Printing in grayscale with AirPrint
Did you all think I was dead? Unfortunately for you, I am not. I’ve just been fairly busy with work and with my renewed interest in photography. Speaking of which, all of you should follow my Flickr photostream, which I update daily. So, you’ve got the shiny new iOS 4.2 on your iPhone 4 and…
Manual duplex printing on a laser printer
My laser printer, a Samsung CLX-3175, does not have any tool for automatic duplex printing. Achieving such result manually is not difficult, but may take some trial and error in order to get the settings right. That’s exactly what I’ve done, and I’m writing this post as a note to myself. Should it be useful…
Headless virtual machines with Oracle VirtualBox
Like any other well-respected geek, I would love to have many computers all around me. However, money constraints make that hard, yet it’s still possible to have extra machines around… if they are virtual. For those unfamiliar with the concept, virtualization is exactly what it sounds like: an entire computer is created in software, possibly…
Apple MacOS X 10.7: code name Cougar?
Since the times of version 10.2, the internal code name of OS X major releases has become public knowledge and Apple has started using it in marketing. While there is a whole series of arguments for and against the usage of a non-sequential version numbering, I would say that in the case of operating systems…
Installing the MySQLdb Python module on Snow Leopard
Needing to access a MySQL database through Python, I was faced by the inability to easily install the MySQLdb module. I do use MacPorts, but after running the obvious sudo port install py26-mysql I realized that I would be downloading, compiling and installing a new instance of Python, a new instance of MySQL (I prefer…