Wifi Apps for Mac OS X (Snow) Leopard

Wifi Apps for Mac OS X (Snow) Leopard is a great page with apps and hints for wifi applications, tools, widget and compatibily informations with Snow Leopard.

Why I'm STILL NOT buying an iPhone

Although I'm surrounded by iPhone-enabled friends and colleagues, I'm still doing great with my Nokia E51 and those are the main reasons I'm still NOT looking forward to buy an iPhone.

Steve, if you're there, please listen!

Reason 1.

I'm a IT professional and I use the phone to work. So, what about a PHONE versione of iPhone? I'm not going to show my holiday pics and video during a business meeting or listening to my music: who's gonna do it?

I have my great iPod nano to bring almost all my music with my on the plane or when I travel. And it works GREAT.

Reason 2.

As I travel and work with my macBook and often don't have wi-fi free connection, I do use a lot my phone to get online. Nokia E51 does it great and I connect in a snap with Bluetooth pairing: why can't I do the same with iPhone? Gosh: it would be Apple-to-Apple connection!

Reason 3.

iCal is great to keep all my appointments and meetings. And again, I sync with iSync in a snap via Bluetooth with my Nokia: why can't do it the same with iPhone? Why shall I have to use the cable or docking station?

Mac 101: Put your display to sleep fast

Ecco un altro grande suggerimento da MAC 101.

Ma potete anche farlo assegnando a uno dei 4 angoli dello schermo l'opzione "Metti lo schermo in stop" nelle Preferenze di Sistema - Exposè . Basta andare con il puntatore in quell'angolo per spegnere immediatamente lo schermo.

Microsoft Remote Desktop connection client

Mac OsX 10 (Leopard) supports natively several protocols, including VNC to connect to a remote server. But, if you're looking for native MS Remote Desktop client, go to this Mactopia Link and download Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta 2).

Marco

BEA WebLogic Server 10 on Mac OSX

Dear fellow BEA Users and Engineers, HERE is an excellent page with hints on how to install and run WLS 10 on your Macs!! I tried myself and worked!

If you can't get to the original page, here it is.
Marco

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Weblogic, being one of the major player in the Java EE app server space released the first fully certified final release last week (although a fully certified tech preview has been available for a while now.).
Being a longtime Weblogic user (my current project using Weblogic 9.2 to name just one) I decided to give it a spin.
Since BEA doesn’t support OS X I start out by making the beast run on my preferred platform, fortunately its quite easy, and I have previously blogged about it. So here is a quick recap for WLS10.
Firstly download the HP-UX Itanium release (server100_generic.jar)
Start the graphical installer by running

java -Dos.name=unix -jar server100_generic.jar

One installed, go ahead and create a new domain (or upgrade an existing if thats your game), use the wlserver_10.0/common/bin/config.sh to start the wizard.
Voila, your ready to go. Start the new domain and start playing around with WLS10.
And of course, running Weblogic on OSX is not supported by BEA in any way.
My next step is to evaluate the WLS10, to get to know it a bit better. Ill take a existing Java EE app and make it run on WLS 10 (The app is currently in production on JBoss AS, and I’ve previously “ported” it to Glassfish). So hand around for my observations.

Note, by using this approach you will miss out on the platform dependent optimization (namely using native libraries, but this method has served me good in the past).
to be continued…
Update: It has come to my attention that the console may freeze (and the CPU jumps to 100%) when trying to login to the console (I didn’t run into it since I had made theese changes anyway). Change/add the following to bin/setDomainEnv.sh:

USER_MEM_ARGS="-Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"

System Info in Terminal Window bar

If you work a lot with Terminal to connect to many different remote hosts simultaneusly, then you do need to have info like hostname, username and PWD in the Teminal title bar.

An easy way to get this, if your host system is running "bash", is to issue the following command:

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${LOGNAME}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'

This variable sets the command to be issued to the bash before showing the prompt. And the escape sequences are the xterm escape sequences to set the title bar. You can ad whatever you want...

If you can modify the remote user settings, you can add this line in the ".bashrc" file. Otherwise, you work like me on Customer' Systems where it's not so nice to change default properties, you can copy&paste each time you log in.

Marco

Why this BLOG

Hi everyone!
If you landed on this page it's probably because you were looking for some info or help for your daily work with your Mac.

After several years as windows user, I got my iMac two years ago and the I found a new dimension in using a Personal Computing Device (not a PC....). Then I finally got a MacBook also for work and instead of heaven, I start seeing some unforeseen hell!!!

Yes, Mac is great for everyday use, artists, graphics pros or other professional user. But working as an IT professional, and having to deal a lot with professional enterprise systems, which mainly run on Windows or the main Unix systems, I started to had some troubles.

I was googling around for help but I couldn't find a site which could help me. So I decided to make this blog to gather info, hits, software or other stuff I found around that might be useful to people like me that use their Macs for everyday work.

Hope you'll find this useful and you'll contribute with news and such.

Marco