• Dec 1, 2008

    Google Calendar's CalDAV Support

    Today, Google announced better CalDAV support which is excellent, but there is a huge issue with Google Apps for Domains. The CalDAV support only works for calendars for which you are the owner; Google Apps for Domains only has the owner specified for the Default domain. Any additional calendars you create don't have the owner set so you can't use them. I'm not sure what the issue is, but I've spent a few hours trying to figure this out and have gotten no where. Well, at least I can use CalDAV for one calendar (I tried this with my Gmail account and it works fine).

  • Nov 30, 2008

    AppleTV and Boxee

    I got an invite to Boxee the other day and just got around to installing it on my AppleTV which went pretty smoothly. It seems interesting, but haven't had much time to play around with it. I took the opportunity to use ATV USB Creator to install it instead of the old Patchstick I used before. I had to re-install part of my SqueezeCenter software after upgrading to AppleTV 2.3, but I'll document that in another post when I get a chance. I think that installing the SqueezeCenter software with the ATV USB Creator will be much easier as it installs SSH 2 instead of SSH 1 so I'll be able to use Transmit to upload files and use BBEdit's SFTP feature to edit files.

  • Nov 30, 2008

    Something wrong with this?

    Yesterday we took a walk up the street to the shopping center to goto my mailbox at the UPS Store. As we walked up, we passed the local Boy Scout troop setting up their annual Christmas tree lot. Something seems quite ironic about that to me; Christmas trees require a lot of energy to harvest, transport to lots (and then homes) and then requires energy to recycle. I picture Boy Scouts doing all that they can do to help the environment; this doesn't seem like the right way. When I was a scout, my troop collected Christmas trees for recycling.

    I'm not saying that the troop is doing anything wrong and know how strapped troops are for cash; I'm just saying that if you step back for a second, it just doesn't seem right.

    (For the most part, I support what the Boy Scouts do as becoming an Eagle Scout is one of the things that really changed my life. There are some policies that I can't believe in, but I won't get into them now.)

  • Nov 14, 2008

    Misleading/Wrong Release Notes

    I was having problems installing Leopard Server on VMWare Fusion and posted to VMWare's forums a few weeks back. The response I got was that it was a VMWare bug and it would be fixed in the next update. Perfect, I'd just have to wait. So today, the update comes out with the following note:

    Mac OS X Server (10.5.5 and earlier) cannot be installed in a virtual machine on the new Fall 2008 MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air.
    The Fall 2008 update to the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air requires a newer version of Mac OS X Server than the most recent version (10.5.5). If you encounter problems installing Mac OS X Server in a virtual machine on these systems, make sure your Mac can boot from the installation disc.

    I downloaded the update and decided to try to install Leopard Server even though I had a 10.5.3 disc image and wasn't hoping for much. I went through the install process and was quite surprised to find that it worked fine on my Fall 2008 MacBook Pro.

    So much for believing known issues/release notes!