| The Ultimate Business Machine Technology, business And, not least, about by: Bernard Teo
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Sun 16 Aug 2009 The brick in the wallCategory : Commentary/BrickInTheWall.txt Now that wasn't hard, right. That first post after a long long time. It's like what I read in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, when Robert Pirsig was speaking as the protagonist, Phaedrus, who was teaching a student how to overcome a writer's block. So he says, instead of writing about the whole street, you concentrate on just one house, say the church, and you think aboout the church and then its wall, and you pick a single brick in that whole wall to think about, and you start writing about that brick. And you notice the words will come, just now maybe a trickle, but now it's pouring forth, and you go with the flow, and that's how you get past that block. Do it one step at a time. It all started when I thought it would be nice to be able to update this weblog directly from my iPhone. That brought me from one thing to another - building our SQL frameworks so they'll be able to work on the iPhone, diversions into WebKit, building our Maven (which is a Cocoa MySQL-type tool) as a SQL front-end for the iPhone, etc. Then I got lost. And exhausted. And all the while Snow Leopard was looming. And then it all stopped. Log-jammed. Nothing was moving. But it was a pretty nice place to be in - inactivity, serenity, bliss. While it lasted. But I've got going again. Had been for quite a while. But it took this move to a new server to run Snow Leopard to get me writing again. I still hadn't be able to update the weblog from the iPhone. But I'll come back to work on it after I've got everything - MailServe, DNS Enabler, WebMon, Luca and Maven - working properly on Snow Leopard. P.S. : Wonder who's still reading all this. Snow LeopardCategory : Technology/SnowLeopard10A432.txt I've just moved my server to a new iMac server running the 10A432 release of Snow Leopard, with the mail, web and DNS services set up with the help of the new versions of MailServe Pro, DNS Enabler and WebMon that I'm working on for Snow Leopard. It's just so I know how these services will hold up when Snow Leopard is released. It's been a lot of work just to get everything working again. There are still some kinks to work out. Nothing's ever easy with these OS X upgrades. Don't be fooled when they all just work, as they should in two weeks' time. Hope I'll have more time, though. |
Mac@Work
Services running on this server, a Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks:
all set up using MailServe, WebMon, DNS Enabler, DNS Agent, VPN Enabler, Liya and our SQL installers, all on Mavericks. |
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