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MAC App Store – Getting some app’s for free

Jason Tramer — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:41:54 +0000

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/07/app_store_receipt_fail/

Now I am not advocating piracy here, far from it, and I firmly believe you should pay for app’s that you use (beyond a trial grace period). This is however an interesting tale. It’s kind of hard to believe this was an oversight though.

Using PAP in OSX L2TP VPN connections

Jason Tramer — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:25:35 +0000

I know some people go absolutely head over heels in love with Mac’s but personally I don’t see the appeal. They are a complete pain IMO to configure the simplest options.

For example, when you are setting up a L2TP VPN connection do you think it might be helpful to set the authentication protocol as something other than MSCHAP v2? Maybe you want to us PAP? Well you can’t, not in the screen any ways. Here is the convoluted MAC way of doing it.

Create the /etc/ppp/options file with the following contents:

refuse-chap

refuse-mschap

refuse-mschap-v2

Wow, that is just great.

Bare Metal Hypervisor for Mac

Jason Tramer — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:44:46 +0000

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/26/parallels_bare_metal_xserve/

Let me check, yup apparently still room on the band wagon, jump on in!

I wonder who will release a bare metal hypervisor next, I am guessing Novell.

Google releases source code for Chrome OS

Jason Tramer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:49:15 +0000

Check it out:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/google_chrome_os_unveiled/

This should make the open source community happy. Frankly why you would endeavour to please the open source community I am not sure. No one ever complains to that Snow Leopard isn’t open source, everyone still loves Mac’s. The demand for “open source” is mostly just a group of malcontents who hate Microsoft’s stranglehold on the industry. Now don’t get me wrong I also hate Microsoft’s stranglehold on the industry, healthy competitions is and always will be the best motivator for innovation but I don’t have to hide that behind some kind of hippy, combuya-singing demand that companies share their corporate secrets because that makes the world a better place.

A review of Snow Leopard

Jason Tramer — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:24:43 +0000

The Register has posted a first review of the new Mac OS called Snow Leopard.

The review itself is pretty interesting though I am have personally yet to be overly impressed with any of the Mac operating systems.

If your a Mac fan you will likely be stoked, if not then it might be a mild curiosity.

Check it out here:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/25/preview_os_apple_snow_leopard/