P. J. Connolly

I confess that years ago I gave up trying to remember my passwords, and since the days of dial-up, I’ve maintained a small notebook that holds configuration details, account information and other scraps of important data. Although I’ve often thought about turning this notebook-and the sticky notes and loose slips of paper that go along […]

Network-attached storage devices have to do more than ever before. It used to be that presenting an Network File System (NFS) target was enough, but today, it’s hard to find a network-attached storage (NAS) unit that doesn’t support a vast array of network and storage protocols, and it’s expected that a NAS device intended for […]

I’m no foodie; I happily prefer chicken-fried steak to Chateaubriand. But I’m excited by Google’s purchase of Zagat, not because it’s going to give me better dining information, but because the deal shows that Google is thinking more about content than algorithms. [WP_IMAGE] This wasn’t Google’s first attempt at establishing a beachhead in restaurant reviews; […]

So, is this year’s missing iPhone just a publicity stunt, as readers and colleagues have suggested? It certainly could be, but I don’t think it is. [WP_IMAGE] First of all, this kind of a PR ploy doesn’t fit Apple’s modus operandi; instead, the company favors all-out silence right up until launch day. That’s why those […]

I spent Labor Day weekend trying to wrap my brain around the case of the latest missing iPhone prototype. This time, however, it’s happening in the part of San Francisco I know and love best. [WP_IMAGE] It seems that back in July, an Apple employee brought what may have been an early version of the […]

I know folks at Apple’s headquarters are kind of preoccupied this week, but in between the obligatory valedictions for the Dear Leader, maybe some of their brighter engineers could sit down and fix a huge problem that’s been hiding below the surface of Mac OS X Lion. [WP_IMAGE] It seems that the company’s implementation of […]

Are Eight Monitors Enough? The HP Z600 workstation can drive up to eight 2D displays, with the help of a single Nvidia Quadro 5000 or dual Quadro 2000 video cards. More Connections Possible (front view) A 400Mbit FireWire (IEEE 1394a) port joins the front panel audio and USB ports on the Z600. Optical drive choices […]

I’ve always been a bit obsessive about documentation, and that mindset comes in handy. For example, I spent a couple of hours this morning reviewing the steps for configuring a Mac to use our corporate VPN and putting them into handout form. This document should already exist somewhere in the files of the IT department, […]

Color Your Code Color schemes in BBEdit 10 default to a code-based view for 64 predefined programming languages; the software accepts user-defined languages as well. Overhauled Preferences The Preferences pane was reorganized for clarity and ease of use in BBEdit 10; the pane adjusts size to fit each tabs content. Site Settings Separated The Setup […]

Apple began supplying an up-to-date version of the installer for its OS X Lion client and server operating systems today, a week after first making the 10.7.1 update available online. That’s a week’s worth of customers who either had to apply the patch manually, or download it separately through the Software Update function of Mac […]