Given that Retrospect 8 is essentially a piece of crap, I’ve been searching for an alternative I can use when Time Machine is not an option for backing up Macs. The main two points I’m focused on is reliability and speed. I want a backup system I can trust that won’t take the age of […]
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In my previous article, I presented Amanda, its basic concepts, and how does it compare to Time Machine. Now, I’ll give you an example of how to install and configure a Mac OS X machine to be an Amanda client. The next post will explain how to properly recover after a catastrophic failure. As with
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More than Lion, iLife or the new awesome MacBook Air, the one thing I liked best about today’s Apple event was that sentence, pronounced by Steve Jobs during the iLife presentation: “That’s why we do what we do”. Why? Today I left a meeting a few minutes after the beginning of the Back to my
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Recently I had to profile a WO application for memory leaks (more exactly, unintentional retention of objects that prevented them from being garbage-collected). Some quick notes: Eclipse TPTP will not work on Mac OS X. Period. Although Eclipse allows you to install it without complaining, it does not work at all. I found this nice article about profiling
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A not very fast but handy way to downscale images in a WebObjects application is using Java 2D APIs, with code like this: BufferedImage reducedImage = new BufferedImage(newX, newY, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); Graphics2D g = reducedImage.createGraphics(); g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BICUBIC); g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_SPEED); g.drawImage(originalImage, 0, 0, newX, newY, 0, 0, originalImage.getWidth(), originalImage.getHeight(), null); g.dispose(); Although not blazing fast,
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