Tag: mac

  • OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock Review

    OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock Review

    I was lucky enough to receive a pre-release demo unit of OWC’s upcoming Thunderbolt 3 Dock and I wanted to write a review of my experience with it.  I’ve had one of the new 15” Apple MacBook Pro laptops with Thunderbolt 3 since they were release.  Since that day I’ve been waiting for someone to release […]

  • Eclipse StartOnFirstThread Error (and fix!)

    This appears to be an issue with the JVM under Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), but I started getting the following error within Eclipse when using the ResourceBundleEditor plugin: It also apparently happens with other plugins/apps and is an issue with the AWT kit in the new JVM. After pouring through all of my Eclipse […]

  • Home Backups

    I just setup some bash scripts leveraging rsync and triggered via cron to not only keep my external hard-drives backed up to their relative backups, but also to keep my wife’s laptop (MacBook) backed up to an external drive attached to my desktop (PowerMac). /usr/bin/backup:#!/bin/bash rsync /Users/emma/ -avz -e ssh ‘[email protected]:/Volumes/MBP\ Backup/tongari/Users/emma/’ rsync /Applications/ -avz […]