I've been using a MacMini running OSX Server to do VPN at my house for about a year now. It worked very well until I got my new MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, there have been problems since then. I now have a call into Apple and a nice work-around. I'm not …

It was announced yesterday on OnMac.net that Blanka and Narf (obviously not their real names) have won the prize of $13,854 for figuring out how to dual-boot a MacBook Pro (or Intel Mini, or Intel iMac) into Windows or OS X. The solution (downloadable here) is a bit …

Ars Technica has posted a review of the MacBook Pro, which is notable in that: 1) it's the first one that I've heard complain about MagSafe; 2) speaks to battery life (3:17 to 4:57 depending); and 3) It compares the machine to a Dell laptop running a hacked …

Last evening, Apple released the first security update for 2006 (Security Update 2006-001 for Intel and PPC). Detailed information is online in About Security Update 2006-001. More details follow here, but the summary is that they have addressed a wide variety of problems, including just about every facet of the …

I'm happy to announce today that LoadMyTracks (ok, make fun of the name if you must, everyone will be making fun of the icon), a program to download GPS data to the Macintosh in GPX or KML (Google Earth) formats is now available from the ClueTrust LoadMyTracks web page. More …

Well, somehow I missed that OWC disassembled the MacBook Pro yesterday afternoon.

Without further ado, the folks at Unsanity have described (in more excruciating detail than I did yesterday) the latest OS X malware threat and have not one, but two, solutions to the problem. UTISafariExploitFix is localized to helping Safari avoid doing bad things to your system, by stopping the problem …

This isn't intended to scare people in the least. In fact, it's intended to inform, and if we were talking about Windows, there's no way that I could comment on almost every threat of Malware that comes up on the platform. However, on the Macintosh, I feel some responsibility to …

This is definitely not for non-administrators. However, I spent some serious time today trying to track this down, so let me save somebody some time here with this tidbit. It all started when I noticed that some of my users on my OSX Server machine were unable to access private …

Well, I guess I'm happy that I didn't upgrade to the 2.16GHz processor and that I ordered early. My order was, until last week, showing Shipment on the 15th, delivery on the 21st. Then Apple announced the upgrade plan and that shipment times would slip by a couple of …

Now that things are starting to become much more clear about the Oompa-Loompa "virus" (AKA, Leap.A), I figured I'd try to put things into perspective and give a few of my thoughts on the whole thing. For those who haven't heard, there has been concentration this week on reports …

According to an article in today's Washington Post (read it fast, 'cause the Post'll charge you if you wait too long), Grants.gov, the Federal Government's clearinghouse for grant applications is not compatible with anything other than Microsoft's Windows operating system. Apparently, the contractor (Northrop Grumman) felt that their implementation …

I'm sure you're all getting sick and tired of my publishing everything I can about the new Intel iMac and are expecting me to finally get some real news or at least movie reviews in here, but I just can't pass up this article from MacSpeedZone that specifically addresses the …

Not surprisingly, since David Pogue (columnist for the NY Times) is a well-known Macintosh zealot, he's got the new Intel iMac and he says it's really fast. Like him or not, he seems to have done a legitimate end-user comparison and warns about which applications you can take with you …

There's a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) going around, and not a small number of benchmarks. Frankly, the two benchmarks I've cited in previous posts are a good example of the two ends of the spectrum, with MacWorld's being pretty shallow and Ars Technica's being well thought out …

Ah, yes, the market. If Apple and Microsoft don't give you what you want, put a bounty on it and see if the Internet will provide. This is exactly what Colin NederKoorn has decided to do, and he's getting help. As of 10pm last night, people had pledged (and paid …

Not that I expect that the folks at Macworld magazine are technical rocket scientists, but this latest piece of "lab" work has me puzzled as to what they're trying to prove and who they're working for. In a series of "tests" performed on the iMac Core Duo and the iMac …

Ars Technica has a review of the new Apple iMac with Intel CPU(s). The review is pretty favorable, with reasonable caveats for non-native code (running under Rosetta) and the fact that it won't be replacing the big iron (G5 Quad or Dual).

So, what's an ExpressCard/34? Can I use my PCMCIA (PCCARD) cards in it? Apple's latest laptop announcement, the MacBook Pro has what is referred to as an ExpressCard/34 slot on it in the place of the usual PCCard slot. So, what is it? ExpressCard is a new standard …

Another Stevenote, another controversy about benchmarks. An commentary by Tom Yager on InfoWorld states that "Apple used multiprocessor benchmarks to skew the performance advantage." I have some issues with this. First, Apple has this time almost completely disclosed the information about their benchmarks, including compilers (IBM optimizing compilers vs. Intel …