Yes, I'm still alive.
Hippo released CMS 7, a long-awaited update of their excellent enterprise document and content management solution, touting separation of concerns, an all-new Apache Wicket-based GUI and a super Apache Jackrabbit repository to replace the old and retired Apache Slide WebDAV repo. If you need a CMS, you know who to call.
MobileMe is still a bit of a dog's dinner. I had to sit through two painful live support sessions on Apple's website in order to get my password reset correctly. For the record, using iforgot.apple.com seemed to have issues and to be out of sync with MobileMe, and confusion abounds since an Apple ID is not a MobileMe ID. Genius. But: calendar, bookmark, and keychain syncing all seem to be working smoothly and proving useful.
If you're trying to get Yojimbo to synchronise via MobileMe, make sure you've entered a license number on both machines you're syncing and not using the free trial on one of them. It took me a couple of days of occasional googling and finally simple trial and error to track that one down. It's not documented anywhere that I could find. The irony is I was trying to do the sync so I could get hold of my Yojimbo license numbers on the new machine...
My EeePC was doing sterling work as a MiniMacbook, apart from a slight hiccup with driving a projector today. I'm still not sure why that didn't work, since I can cheerfully power a large external LCD panel with it. Other than that, I've been cheerfully using it for mail, news, twitter, powerpoint, and all the other day-to-day requirements of work, rest and play.
I say "was doing". Approximately since upgrading Quicktime, I've been getting kernel panics instead of suspends occasionally. Tonight I re-installed the kernel extensions to see if it helped - and now I have a blue screen of death, pre-login screen. Ho hum. Reinstall? Rescue boot? Who knows. One thing I do know is I've been enjoying the significantly lighter rucksack on the long walk to the office, so I'll be loath to go back to the Macbook Pro.
Right, where's my Leopard CD .... ?
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Posted by savs at January 28, 2009 9:22 PM