Author Archives: Dave Abrahams

I’ve got an OCZ Vertex III SSD in my Macbook, which is awesome! Not so awesome: OCZ doesn’t provide firmware updaters that work on MacOS. Furthermore, recent Macbooks will only boot off internal drives (or via PXE netboot, which I’ve … Continue reading →

Welcome to part I in a two-part series about web “service” providers whose offerings are… less than completely Scottish.  We’re holding off on part II until we can get fully-away from the other provider, but today I’m warning everyone to … Continue reading →

Some really cool things I discovered today: Wuala: distributed, secure, redundant cloud storage, backup, and sync. Watch their Google Tech Talk! It’s what Tahoe-LAFS was supposed to be (but not fully open-source). Let’s build plug appliances that trade storage! Mailplane … Continue reading →

I’m excited! I recently migrated all my mail to [GMail](mail.google.com), and the fact that it keeps an archive of _everything_ by default (just as I have done explicitly using via server-side rules for years before now) inspired me to return … Continue reading →

It’s been said that rebasing a branch you’ve pushed out to a public Git repository “may invoke the wrath of the git gods.”  For a while I accepted it as gospel that public-facing branches shouldn’t be rebased. On the other … Continue reading →

I have been using wordpress.com (this site is was hosted there) for quite some time, but a while back I got tired of the limited configurability and the need to pay for every little tweak. When I narrowed down my choices … Continue reading →

This blog series on setting up a home ZFS fileserver has a lot of awfully familiar screenshots. Simon, on the other hand, had the sense to go right to the official ZFS implementation rather than messing around with FUSE. I … Continue reading →

It’s been a while. Hey, I’ve been busy. My adventures with ZFS-Fuse finally got too exciting when I mistakenly allocated a bunch of partitions to both ZFS and mdRAID, and I had to throw out most of what I’d accomplished. … Continue reading →

Been working with a MBP17″ for a few months, and Apple asked me for feedback today, so I thought I’d share what I told them with the rest of you: Has HDAPS (“Hard Drive Active Protection System,” an IBM term), … Continue reading →

Bah. Humbug! I wasted hours on this one as I was trying to install MovableType on my Mac. I had long ago installed PostgreSQL using MacPorts, and that’s where everything started to break. See, MT scripts all begin with #!/usr/bin/perl … Continue reading →