September 2008 Archives

Sep 17, 2008

Run Mac OS X on an Eee PC

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Mac OS X 1 comment

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Feel like stepping beyond the limits of Apple hardware? Want a Mac netbook for under $650? How about an EeePC running Mac OS X?
At least part of the appeal of the dimunitive EeePC netbook is its hackability — from Linux to Vista, intrepid hackers have figured out how to [...]


Sep 6, 2008

Downloading an Entire Web Site with wget

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Linux No comments

If you ever need to download an entire Web site, perhaps for off-line viewing, wget can do the
job—for example:
$ wget \
–recursive \
–no-clobber \
–page-requisites \
–html-extension \
–convert-links \
[...]


Sep 4, 2008

Power monitoring and logging with Apcupsd and Cacti

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Linux No comments

By Colin Beckingham on September 04, 2008

For some time I have been using the American Power Conversion (APC) uninterruptible power supply (UPS) daemon Apcupsd to interface my desktop computer with my APC Back-UPS ES 550. Available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris 10, Apcupsd reliably warns me when the power goes out and [...]


Sep 2, 2008

Apple Qmaster Render Farm Setup

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Mac OS X No comments

Tested Compressor and Qmaster render farm setup.
Here you can look at the settings and configuration of the setup that I am currently using, Nov 29/07

You need to install Compressor and Qmaster on all of the machines that you are going to cluster together.
I have installed Final Cut Studio 2 on all of the machines

You need [...]