La Pavoni seal replacement

I'm replacing the seals on my La Pavoni Europiccula, and I found these instructions on how to do it from How to Operate, Maintain, and Repair Your la Pavoni Espresso Machine. Good stuff, very helpful. Together with La Pavoni's part overview (the first page), it was a real help. Only thing I couldn't do was replace the mini rubber gasket because I don't have ring pliers.

Auto-mount external drives on OS X

Run the following as root to make disks auto-mount during system startup. I use this to have an external disk to put my Tomcat, JBoss and MySQL logfiles on
defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool true

No Airtunes update

Tuesday's Apple announcement held many goodies, but Apple seems to be going nowhere on Airtunes. Airport Extreme had been updated, but no Audio Out. And with my Airport Express, I cannot simply add more Airport Expresses to play the same set of music in every room of my house: Because iTunes and the Express use Apple Lossless compression to encode music (rather than native MP3 or AAC), you can stream audio to only one unit at a time (source). Dear Apple, wouldn't you make a nice little plug-this-adapter-in-the-wall-and-get-audio-out Airtunes device that I can put in every room of my house with a stereo, and throw in a remote control or two in the package?

iPhone has BSD subsystem

When Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone would be running OS X, I thought to myself that that's just what he sais: it will have the same userinterface, but he's not going to keep the core there: the BSD subsystem. Looks like he has, though, and now people are SSH'ing into the phone. That suddenly made the whole phone very much more appealing. I'll still need 3G and a decent camera, though. At the moment, my k800i is doing both camera and MP3s all right, but then again, it has no BSD subsystem.

Bjarke

Spy camera

Boing Boing has a link to this interesting article about a victorian age spy camera:

Proud Mother

Young one

They have hatched

Drinking Duck