This morning I added Growl notifications to Asteristickies using a wonderful PHP class found here.
You do not need to add any third party software to make this work, presuming you have Growl already installed. Configuration is minimal and notifications can be sent to any routable hostname . address.
About 45 minutes ago we were sitting down watching Law and Order when we heard some screaming across the hall – something along the lines of “OH MY GOD FIRE!”. I thought I had smelled something funny but thought it was just someone’s horrible cooking. I got up and looked out into the hallway to see what was up – thinking it was just some drunk chicks, I was wrong. The hallway had a bunch of smoke and it seemed to be coming from one specific apartment (right across the hall from mine). I have spoken with the guy on several occasions so I decided to invite myself in to make sure he wasn’t dead. Instead he was passed out on the couch somehow not affected by the thickest smoke I have ever seen.
I hollered at the guy – “Dude, you apartment is on fire.”… no response. One more time somewhat louder (I didn’t want to wake the neighbors as it was 2AM) “Your fucking house is on fire, do something about it”. He rolled over and said “That’’s not mine”. Luckily someone pulled the alarm and he was in the back of the cruiser in no time.
I grabbed my Mac, some smokes and a blanket and waited outside in the rain. Definitely an exciting event, some people didn’t find it as entertaining.
Tonight’s lesson : don’t drink and cook.
I think that it is ridiculous people are requesting VMWare console ported to Mac as it really is not necessary.
I decided to upgrade the old hard drive in my XBOX as it was thrashing exceptionally loud so I sacrificed my Time Machine drive (320GB) and now I wish I didn’t. I had to find a quick solution to getting Time Machine backing up once again as my Mac is my primary business device and I can not afford to lose anything.
My TIBook only has USB 1.1 (12mbps) so it was VERY nice to be able to use ethernet (100mbps) to backup my data.
It was good to see other people were interested in doing this as well – I am sure it is old news but here are the two tutorials I followed :
This wonderful blogger has created a super easy to follow tutorial for setting up your NAS to support AFP (netatalk)
HowTo: Make Ubuntu A Perfect Mac File Server And Time Machine Volume [Update6]
This one shows you how to easily create a sparseimage to transfer over to your NAS if you continually get “could not create disc” errors :
Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS
Time Machine is an amazing application and adding a network layer on top just increases it’s value. I hope you find these links as useful as I did.
No I don’t mean XP, I hate that shit.
I am talking about my power supply debokkle. I found one on Kijiji in Hamilton for only $40 plus the same seller has 512 MB Ram baby! Even better – she is selling it for only $25! So I meet her tomorrow with $65 and I have a super fast Powerbook with a brand spanking new power supply for much less than I could find it anywhere else!
Just thought I’d mention that for all of you who were worried I was going through Leopard withdrawals, I was.
Anyway, I am going to read Craig’s blog.