iTunes@work
These instructions are a great 5 minute guide to using iTunes at work. My mini at home already has SSH access enabled, so fire up Putty, make a tunnel, install the helper app and Boom! You’ve got music at work
Mobile phone and smoke detector
This is just the weirdest. Not three minutes ago my Norwegian mobile phone that I haven’t had turned on since christmas suddenly turned itself on, and just a second thereafter my smoke alarm went bananas. I can smell no smoke, no smoke outside, no smoke in the entrance, not anywhere. What’s going on? Normally I […]
FrontRow updates
One of my pet project has been FrontRow and using my mini with an Elgato Hybrid and EyeTV as a media centre. At the moment its very quirky since there isn’t much info on making FrontRow plugins, or so I thought. Yesterday I read about PyeTV, an EyeTV integration for FrontRow written in Python using […]
Big hands
Canon EOS 450
The Canon EOS 450 was announced today, and now DPReview has made a preliminary review of it. I’m sad it doesn’t go past 1600 ISO. Nikon is going for high ISOs now, and Canon has pretty much stood still since I bought my 20D. My wish for the next camera (Canon 50D?) is higher ISO […]
Great dashboard!
Indianapolis Museum of Art has the best dashboard ever. If you’re a happy mac user and working with business intelligence, you’ll want to make dashboards like this! (Thank you DashboardSpy for the link)
Leopard backing up cache
Time Machine included in Leopard backs up your ~/Library/Caches unless you explicitly ask it not to. Just something to make a choice about when setting up your hourly backups. I do my backups to a remote disk, so I certainly would not like to every hour have my last hour of browsing backuped.
Designing a better shower battery
The one thing I don’t get with showers is why there always is water left in them. I mean, I get the physics of it, I just don’t understand why I can’t just press a little lever on the shower battery and make the remaining water flow out in the drain. Then I can be […]
Tab-completion on host-names on OS X
I don’t know if this is bash or an OS X feature, but nonetheless: today I discovered that there’s tab-completion that takes .ssh/config into account! I on-instinct did a tab after writing part of the hostname I wanted and (boom!) there it was, auto-completed with a colon. So to SSH to my mini I did […]
Great MDX resource
In Scott Larsons blogpost referenced in my last post he gives a short but important note: his favourite MDX resource. And I agree: a 62 article series in learning MDX. Since I’ve worked with SQL “all my life” I’ve not bothered to much with MDX, but with this series I’m really looking forward to learning […]
Calculated KPIs in PerformancePoint
What bugs me very much about working with KPIs in PerformancePoint’s Dashboard is that you cannot do simple calculations. For instance, I have a sales cube that has the measures unit cost and price the unit was sold for. I would like to say that a loss (price/cost < 1) makes the KPI red, a […]
CozyRoc SSIS+
One of my main gripes with Microsoft SSIS is that there is no way to reuse logic. In my data integration task I needed to do the same lookup and translation tasks (typically convert to upper case, replace ” with ‘N/A’, look up column in side table and use the IDs from that table instead) […]
PerformancePoint connection errors
At work I’m looking at PerformancePoint, and being a newbie with this product I of course do all the newbie errors. That’s why I was so happy when finding Nick Barclay’s blogpost where he explains all about the way-to-common connection errors. Big thank you to Nick.
iTunes duplicates
Not quite happy with any of the programs I found to identify iTunes duplicates, I spent an hour making my own (beats tracking down duplicates. ) I thought I’d share it with you. It’s my first attempt at using OS X’ ScriptingBridge and written in Python. I have no clue if it runs out […]
