Chris Carey

As of today I noticed some changes with Google Maps.

There is one search bar up there and it is now a drop-down combobox.

No story on Google’s Blog, or News outlets about the change.

Now that I’m using iTunes, and we have canceled our Cable TV down to “basic”, I’m considering taking a new approach to traditional television viewing.

AppleTV

I read that it is possible to set up a network based “Time Capsule” service for use with “Time Machine” in OS X. This requires setting up Apple File Sharing (AFP) with Ubuntu Linux.

This was a bit of a pain to set up. Got it working after hours of struggle. I hope to type up a complete howto when I get time. In the mean time, heres some of the links I used to get it working:

• http://holyarmy.org/2008/01/24/time-machine-backup-to-linux-via-netatalk
• http://www.damontimm.com/blog/how-to-install-netatalk-afp-on-ubuntu-with-encrypted-authentication/
• http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080420211034137
• http://blog.our-files.com/?p=5
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=410274
• http://www.hellinga.org/index.php?id=2&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=4&tx_ttnews[year]=2007&tx_ttnews[month]=05&tx_ttnews[day]=26&cHash=12028cb059

Here is a little trick to prevent the netatalk package from updating in Ubuntu:

echo “netatalk hold” | sudo dpkg –set-selections

Also, during my journey, I came across this “Time Machine”-ish software for Linux. It may be worth checking out for automated Linux backups.

• http://code.google.com/p/flyback/

Received an email scam from a Craigslist posting.

From: Clint Davidson <clint_dave71@hotmail.com>

Did some searching and found this site with lots of information:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-206-666-1926

This is just a reminder that on the Internet, it’s buyer/seller beware. I still love Craigslist

Trying to install a Logitech Quickcam for notebooks webcam on my wife’s Mac and it doesn’t detect it. After a little searching, I found macam. It supports hundreds of webcams previously unsupported with OS X. Installed it, camera works! However, the camera was underpowered for use with Photo Booth and iChat. I resorted to purchasing the $39 XBOX 360 Webcam. It’s not quite as nice as the iSight, but works in OS X natively, and works with both Photo Booth, and iChat.

I took the plunge and purchased a Macintosh MacBook. So for the first time in 13 years, my main computer is a Mac. I started on Mac with the SE/30 and used the Macs during the System 6 and 7 days.

OS X is very exciting. I kick myself for not trying it sooner.

This change has fired me up about computers similar to how fired up I was after discovering Linux. Expect to see a lot of posts regarding this.

Check out the iPhone Dev Team’s Blog for more info.

http://blog.iphone-dev.org

On the Linux server, add the file:

/etc/avahi/services/samba.service

Copy this code in the new file:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">

<service-group>
    <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h server</name>
    <service>
        <type>_smb._tcp</type>
        <port>139</port>
        <host-name>chris.local</host-name>
    </service>
</service-group>

VMware Server 1.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.0.4 would not run “out of the box”. I needed a library fix to get it running:

$ cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

$ sudo mv libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1.orig

$ sudo ln -s /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1

I noticed some small Google Calendar updates a couple days ago. When creating a calendar item, it is now a semi-transparent color matching your category colors. I wonder what other features or fixes were put in that I have yet to run across.