I have a couple posts going on the back burner, namely the re-foaming process on the 8″ woofer drivers from the Advent Heritage speakers I found in Greenpoint and the Mac Mini media server setup we have going now. But first, say you want to convert all the albums you ripped to FLAC to Apple [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Apple’
June 2, 2010
OS X and the “cat” command for appending sequential .zip files
For whatever reason there is certain a level of incompatibility between various .zip (archive) file formats among various operating systems today. It’s certainly not that you won’t be able to access any file type on any given system, as there are many tools to do so, mostly it’s a question of how many hoops you [...]
December 22, 2009
Ipod touch blog
Okay here is a blog entry from our new iPod touch with the wordpress application installed. It seems to work pretty well. There are some parallels with this trip and my xc bicycle trip 10 years ago only then there was no wifi and digital cameras were very expensive now photos are cheap, talk is [...]
September 14, 2009
iPod Touch has 802.11n! But it’s not enabled! Zing!
I went to the Apple Store on 5th Ave before doing a little bouldering in Central Park. Chris sent the Polish Traverse and made it look effortless. At least someone is in shape. So, I stopped by Apple and asked what they knew about the 802.11n chipset on the latest model iPod Touch. Nothing. They [...]
September 10, 2009
Darwine you are a fine Wine.
For whatever reason I’d never played around with application compatibility layer software like Wine under OS X. Parallels and VMware are quite overkill for most people’s purposes. Usually the user may need to run one application in the guest OS and setting up an entire VM and giving 10GB or whatever over to that [...]
July 2, 2009
WWDC no 802.11n in on the 3G S iPhone!? Drat!
So, with the new iPhone 3.x OS you will not be purchasing an 802.11N enabled wireless chipset. Apparently the new 3G S model does support 4G HSDPA but not 5 GHz 802.11N wireless with the new lower powered Broadcom BCM4325. Apparently the 3G S model is a bit snappier. When is the 802.11n iPod [...]
March 23, 2009
I am Netatalk you are Netatalk we are Netatalk
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it spend all weekend working out Ubuntu 8.04 command line shell commands to make a beautiful thing happen? Namely, mount an Apple Time Capsule share over ethernet via Samba/CIFS and and then serve the data via mt-daapd to [...]
February 23, 2009
It goes – Ethernet > Airtunes > SPDIF > DAC
Got the two Airport Express Base Stations working on the network with Airtunes & iTunes. I bought an older 802.11b/g one for wired usage and an 802.11n one for wireless audio in the kitchen. I had to do hard resets on both of them before they’d show up on the Airport Utility. I turned off [...]
