My son is a hybrid

Alexis and I were just talking about religion in the household and how we can teach Aaron why we celebrate Easter and xmas. Then a thought occurred that someone at his (Jewish) Temple Pre-K school might let it slip that Santa or the Easter Bunny don't exist. In turn I wondered out loud whether Aaron was the only hybrid kid at his Temple. I thought it was amusing to describe my son as a hybrid.

My pollution is healthier than yours!

I was driving to work with my music (Depeche Mode) blasting kind of loud. I pulled up to a red light and this elderly woman gave me a dirty look. She, of course had rolled down her window so she could smoke a cigarette. So I thought to myself, she thinks I am polluting the air with sound. Well luckily listening to Depeche Mode won't kill you, whereas smoking is much more likely to.

 My $0.02.

reconfigure squirrelmail for SSL

Thanks to pterobyte on the Apple Support Discussions site, I found this gem.

 sudo /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl

 It is nothing more than a perl script that allows you to configure squirrel mail, but it is nice to be able to use squirrel mail with SSL. By default you would think that Apple's GUI would modify the necessary files if you chose to not use clear for a valid password type.

To test 10.6 Wake on Demand...

You can do the following to test and see if your setup supports the Wake on Demand.

1. In the Energy Saver System Preference Pane, check Wake for network access.
2. Open iTunes and turn on the iTunes library sharing. 
3. Put that computer to sleep.
4. On a separate Mac type the following command in Terminal

dns-sd -B _daap._tcp

You should see something similar to my screenshot. Notice that A/R is ADD. This means the service is still being broadcast by your router using Bonjour. It would say Rmv if the service was no longer being broadcast. You can test this by leaving this command running in terminal, waking up the computer providing the service and turning off iTunes Library sharing. 

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Boot Camp: Restarting into Mac OS X using the command line

Boot Camp: Restarting into Mac OS X using the command line

  • Last Modified: August 27, 2009
  • Article: HT3802

Summary

When running Windows on a Mac using Boot Camp, the startup disk can be changed using a command line, in addition to the Startup Disk Control Panel.

Products Affected

Boot Camp, Windows XP, Windows Vista

Note: This command requires Boot Camp 3.0 or later (beginning with Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard).

  1. Boot the Mac using Windows.
  2. Click on Start.
  3. Click on All Programs.
  4. Click on Accessories. 
  5. Click on Command Prompt.
  6. Type in the following command:
    c:\progra~1\Bootca~1\bootcamp.exe -StartupDisk "Mac OS"
    Shutdown /r /t 0
  7. The computer will restart into Mac OS X.

Note: BootCamp.exe -StartupDisk <VolumeName> - Bootcamp.exe has a command line option ‘-StartupDisk <VolumeName>’ to set the Startup Disk.  When the Mac is rebooted, it will boot to the volume specified by <VolumeName>.  If <VolumeName> is omitted, then the system will boot into the first Mac OS X volume located by BootCamp.exe.  Bootcamp.exe is located at “c:\Program Files\Boot Camp\BootCamp.exe.”

Important: Information about products not manufactured by Apple is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute Apple’s recommendation or endorsement. Please contact the vendor for additional information.

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