Jacken’s Blog

And I must start and say that I’m happy with it. Some small stuff doesn’t work, but I’m certain that I can get it to work via telnet. Haven’t bothered. You can download different distributions of the kernels, drivers other software. Their images you put on your hard-disk and then install a boot-loader so you [...]

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I know I’ve been bitching about this before, but when is Apple going to show the benefits of Mac OS X to the general public? If you ask Joe Blow if he knows anything about Mac OS X, your probably going to get a blank stare. I have never seen an ad from Apple that [...]

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Macro Canon EOS 300d, 17-55mm EF-S lens. I had to do some tests with macro and flash. I’m using the standard 17-55 mm EF-S Canon lens because it’s the lens with the shortest focus I have.

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I’ve just added Vipul’s Razor to my Mac OS X Server setup.

By using the excellent article at www.afp548.com on how to setup spam and virus filter on Mac OS X Panther Server using ClamAV and Amavisd, I managed to get it up and running on my server. But I also wanted to have Visul’s Razor [...]

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After installing the spamfilter on my mailserver, there’s still some spam coming trough. One of them is spam from a company called PrintPal. The company admits to using external contractors to spam, but says that all of them use legitimate sources for their email addresses and that you have to opt in to be on [...]

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If everything goes my way, I’ll be going to an old abandoned subway station tomorrow. It’s a station that was completely built for a planned housing project that was later abandoned. So the trains just go past this station. And I just feel that there is a good photo opportunity there. I’ll try to bring [...]

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I found this funny posting on BoingBoing where someone used The Sims game to do some torture. Funny as hell. I almost pissed my pants and burst up in flames! Here’s a Link

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How come newspapers internet version doesn’t contain any links to further information? Why not use the media they publish on? This makes Swedish newspapers like Aftonbladet and Expressen not part of the web to a full extent. Why is that? Are they afraid that they become liable if the site they link to says something [...]

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I never been a big fan of RSS readers like NetNewsWire. I also want to check out the design of the blogs I read. But after testing NetNewsWire 2 beta, I’m hooked. And out came my Visa card. After using it for a couple of days, it already feels like a necessity. It’s also great [...]

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So I updated a customers OS X Server with Softwareupdate from the command-line. After rebooting the machine didn’t start up again. Naturally I immediately suspected that something went wrong with the update to 10.3.5. After going to the location and installing a combined update from another machine, the server still hanged after displaying the gray [...]

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