Elasticfox, OSX and iTerm

October 1st, 2008

Elasticfox is a nice extension for managing your relationship with EC2 from within Firefox.  It’s XUL-based, somewhat homely and odd.  But it’s so much nicer than dealing with the ec2-* scripts directly and copying Amazon’s wacky hash identifiers hither and thither.
But on OSX, the “ssh to this instance” button is wired up to Terminal.app.  I [...]

Multiple instances of AS on OSX

September 29th, 2008

Rysiek asked me to elucidate my clustering on OSX…
By default, it seems that OSX provides exactly 1 localhost address, unlike RHEL.  I normally make use of 127.0.0.1/24 when I’m deploying on Linux, and figured I’d do the same on OSX.
To accomplish this, you need to create some new localhost IPs to play with.

sudo ifconfig lo0 [...]

Boxy To Go

December 5th, 2006

Being an OSX user, I’ve felt massive amounts of unlove from TiVo, in terms of the TiVoDesktop, TiVoToGo, etc.  But now, man, the guys behind tivodecode have come to my rescue.  While playing with it, I also discovered that the TiVo actually produces a nice XML feed, and mine at least attempts to serve up [...]

Knobs

July 11th, 2006

I’ve recently started using iTunes on the G5 hooked to the speakers, instead of the iPod connected to them. Today I realized that I hadn’t been listening to anything at all, because iTunes simply never made it to the front of my stack of windows. With the physical iPod situated in front of me, [...]

Menu Bling

May 19th, 2006

How much have you got? (Click to enlarge)