There’s a nice simple option for downloading Real / streaming video and sound on OSX. Get CocoaJT and follow instructions.
Alternatively, you might have success with mplayer, mplayer, VNC or other options. But they all seem like trouble given that CocoaJT just works. It’s a slightly strange name, though, so I always forget what it is called.
While the general idea is laudable, the simple statement that vampires can’t exist because they’d have killed all the humans is just stupid. In summary: if a vampire feeds once a month and creates a vampire of its prey, then there would be no humans left. So we’re either all reformed vampires, or they don’t exist.
Surely it’s more fun to speculate that there is a vast, undercover army of vampire hunters who are protecting us from the vampire population explosion we all fear?
Some useful pointers to being more innovative in workshop settings. Purpose: get more out of the people.
Looks like this home automation over WiFi / LAN might be the way to control the Mac from the bedroom / kitchen.
I was tempted to quote Steve Yegge’s article on the Google development process, but decided not to in the end. So it was fascinating to see a friend’s take on it from the other side of the fence. Summary: not great for people wanting to partner with Google.
Interesting musings on what the long-term significance of the “violence” quote might be. Summary: Islam uses Mohammed as a Pope-like figure to gather behind; the secular terms violence/non-violence, parody/defamation become linked with religion; a majority of muslims want to enter into a civilised dialogue.
It’s been trailled for a while, but interesting to see that Accenture has finally pulled out of NPfIT.
[Update: some musings from the OGC on risk for suppliers. And £30m more for Government Connect.]
An excellent find: a free utility which cascades Exchange mailbox and folder permissions down through a hierarchy. This saves you doing every single folder if people store stuff outside or underneath their Inbox. A massive, massive time saver if you share inboxes, as we do.
It didn’t work for me at first- I got an error message after connecting saying “could not expand” a long URL and “403 forbidden”. After a trail of articles and searches it turned out that I had require SSL turned on for the exadmin site which was bouncing my request. Take the require SSL off (Right click on the site, properties, Directory Security, Secure Communications>Edit, then untick Require Secure channel (SSL)) and you should be fine.
Sometimes when VNC really isn’t working you need to restart it. A simple SSH can do this as follows:
sudo /Library/StartupItems/OSXvnc/OSXvnc stop
sudo /Library/StartupItems/OSXvnc/OSXvnc start