Diving into the Sun

I’ve been playing with Solaris on VMWare for several weeks now–specifically with ZFS–as a proof of concept for my Solaris ZFS NAS I spoke of earlier. I’ve been impressed so far (more on that some other time). 
This weekend I decided to kill several birds with one stone:
1. Create a real (meaning on metal) Solaris NAS [...]

Quicksilver iTunes Kung Fu

Quicksilver has been getting a lot of press lately on various sites, and has been a darling of the Mac community for a while now–and rightfully so. For those who don’t know Quicksilver is more than a search application or application launcher (a la LaunchBar). It is an interface for quickly locating and manipulating files [...]

Google Desktop for Mac — Not there yet

Earlier this week, Google released Google Desktop Search for Mac OS X. I like many others wondered first why bother. As ass-y as it can be sometimes, OS X does have Spotlight built in, and indeed Google addressed this by saying Google Desktop compliments Spotlight. Also I wondered if I wanted yet another application endlessly [...]

8 Core MacPro Avaialble Now!

I woke up this morning to see an 8 core MacPro on Apple’s website. It’s a $1500 build to order option. The base model still starts at $2499.
http://www.apple.com/macpro