Matthew's Weblog » Uncategorized http://mps.blog.webplumbers.com Technical notes and societal musings Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Extra macbook HD space http://mps.blog.webplumbers.com/2010/01/07/extra-macbook-hd-space/ http://mps.blog.webplumbers.com/2010/01/07/extra-macbook-hd-space/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:44:41 +0000 Matthew http://mps.blog.webplumbers.com/?p=402 Neat idea now that CDs and DVDs aren’t that necessary… replace the Mac optical drive with a second hard drive.  Not always practical but could be good for some folks, or maybe for me in the future.

http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/index.htmle
]]> http://mps.blog.webplumbers.com/2010/01/07/extra-macbook-hd-space/feed/ 0 Mishmash of articles – Part I http://mps.blog.webplumbers.com/2008/12/28/mishmash-of-articles-part-1/ http://mps.blog.webplumbers.com/2008/12/28/mishmash-of-articles-part-1/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:50:48 +0000 Matthew http://mps.blog.webplumbers.com/?p=349 Thin Film Solar possibilities

Interesting new basic content delivery system from Amazon

Big improvement possibilities for wind power

Homeowner-owned fiber… aka Homes with Tails

Significant numbers of people exiting Amazon and starting companies

Voice Search for the iPhone

Warnings of problems with e-voting machines that thankfully appear to have not come true

Great technical ideas and inspirations and policies for a new president

Plastic solar cells

How Spam is Improving AI

Improving display technology

Improving solar cells

Selling tickets in Boston – Ace Ticket interview

Is GM’s Volt Ready to Roll?

Solar Roofing Materials

Obama’s online tools

Electrocaloric hopes – plastic that cools

Hydrogen storage for solar energy?

Cloud infrastructure providers

John McCain, Battery Booster (it’s been a long time since I posted)

How do we manage (or do we manage) video prioritization over the network

Online schedulers with natural-language processing

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FAIL

Turns out they’re considered unsafe… or in NFS parlance, insecure. Need to change each line in /etc/exports to include the insecure option:

/mediafiles/movies *(ro,insecure)
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