37Signals latest webapp, Backpack launches today. 10am CST, which will be some time this afternoon. If it’s anything like as good as Basecamp or Ta-da lists, it should be something special. Keep your eyes peeled, folks.
37Signals latest webapp, Backpack launches today. 10am CST, which will be some time this afternoon. If it’s anything like as good as Basecamp or Ta-da lists, it should be something special. Keep your eyes peeled, folks.
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Phew. That was an interesting day or so.
So I installed Tiger, and yes, it was very whizz-bang, but it also jammed the fan of my laptop on. The reason for this is basically Spotlight - even though it said it was done, it was then trying to index my Firewire drive (which has lots of backups and bazillions of files) and this makes it hot-hot-hot. The fact the fan took its time to turn off again is probably an OS issue that will be resolved; as it stands, it’s doing a lot better a bit into the install.
Next problem: every time I close it, it forgets my wireless network. I solved this problem by removing my wireless network from the list of “preferred networks” stored in Network settings; once I re-entered it once, it has found it every time. Not so obvious, but hey, it’s solved.
Final thing (that I was most proud of): enabling PHP support. It’s disabled by default on the OS, but editing /etc/httpd/httpd.conf I found I just had to uncomment two lines referring to mod_php4 and it all work swimmingly.
It’s dang nippy; a little shot of air into an old-ish laptop. Hopefully the fan issues will disappear once I let it finish indexing the Firewire drive. Tom Coates has a nice write-up of what actually using all the new technologies is like; in particular, a nice example of using Automator for fun and profit.