http://iaconelli.org miniature disaster, minor catastrophe Sat, 31 May 2008 22:26:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On May 30th, Apple released Mac OS X Server 10.5.3 - a long awaiting, and highly anticipated update to the Mac OS X Server product line. Some of the most important points addressed:    -Addresses an issue that could cause the AppleFileServer process to stop accepting connections while consuming most of the available ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/05/31/od-1053/ The man in 41C yawns, and leans back in his seat. The lights are down, the display from the laptop lights his face, and blinks off the rim of his glasses. A stack of papers sits on his desk, and a scribbled note on the back of an Apple Store ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/05/20/flight-aa99/ Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote a stinging letter to the Yahoo! Board of Directors. Some of you may remember, back in January, there were rumblings of Microsoft's intentions to buy Yahoo! - this was put into motion on the 31st of that month as Microsoft sent this letter that ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/04/06/microsoft-sends-letter-to-yahoo-board-of-directors/ Reading the BBC on my late evening rounds, I caught the very sad news that Neil Aspinall passed away earlier today at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Neil, commonly called the fifth Beatle, was until last sumer, Chief Executive of Apple Corps, the Beatle's music label. Aspinall ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/03/24/news-today-oh-boy/ The man from 41C stood on the platform, and looked up at the dirty orange LED display. The wind and drizzle made a light haze of colour around the sign, and turned the reading of "18:02 to East Grinstead" resemble something more akin to "18:85 to Bast Grlnstead". The sky ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/03/14/aa-3676/ Not the delicious Belgian Pale Ale, but actual, honest to God rumblings of the ground. At +53° 19' 15.60", -0° 18' 50.40" 00:56:46.0 UTC there was a distinct rumble as the ground jolted about, and again, a few minutes later, there was a mild aftershock. Initial reports peg the quake ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/02/27/delirium-tremens/ I've no time now to go into the specifics, but right now, I'm in Studio One of AIR listening to a live set from KT Tunstall and Billy Bragg. All I can say is that this is one of the best musical experiences of my life, ever. It's right up there ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/02/24/air-studios/ My birthday, having passed on Monday, I decided to treat myself to a new toy. After years out in the cold with film SLR cameras, I've finally moved on and bought myself a new SLR, a Digital SLR. Specifically, a Nikon D80 - the object of my desire for the ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/02/16/photographic-intent/ This evening, the long anticipated Mac OS X 10.5.2 update dropped from Cupertino's Software Update Servers. Available in two flavours, for Server and Client, the Combo updates apply to both PPC and Intel systems. As always, remember to perform a full backup, and try to run the Combo update, rather ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/02/11/mac-os-x-1052/ Busy doesn't quite cover my last week. I've been doing nothing but waking up, going to work, and then passing out when I get home. Hopefully the next week ahead should give me some time to recover to some small degree. I've been a busy bee. Today (coincidentally my birthday) ... http://iaconelli.org/archives/2008/02/11/busy-bees/