What do you do when your time capsule dies… well… I ripped mine open, replaced the power supply, made the fan always run, and upgraded the HDD to 2TB! :) Click through to the article for the full details and gory screenshots.

So, I tend to do a lot of lower-level stuff on OS-X such as compiling my own PostgreSQL server for development and testing purposes.  One of the things that tends to interrupt the process of actually trying to run postgres is that it cannot change to the postgres user and it cannot run it as [...]

One thing that bugs the hell out of me is when a seemingly simple task isn’t so, especially on the Mac. For example, I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac and I can’t add a raw partition or disk to any of my VMs. So, for example I can’t plug up a USB hard drive to my Mac with a partition formatted with Reiser-FS and directly mount that partition in a virtual machine. But, through some googling around and some trial and error I figured out how to do it. This tutorial isn’t for the faint of heart, but if you’re comfortable with a terminal in OS-X you’ll be fine. [...]