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The problems with the PT AX200 (fluctuations in brightness) appear to have gone away for now. However, Panasonic have got back to me and asked me to send the unit in for testing. I’ve replied and let them know the problem has gone away, and asked for further advice.

I’ve been doing some more tests, and it isn’t looking good for external mail being sent to your @mac.com/@me.com email. It might be resolved once they bring the services back online, but right now, mail isn’t getting through to my MobileMe email address.

Updated: My MobileMe account just pinged back to life (for how long who knows!?). I’d like to mention that the mail that appeared to be missing is now sitting in my inbox. Therefore, while very slow, it is possible that external emails are not being rejected or dropped silently, as discussed below.

I have a MobileMe account (formally .Mac) and also my brother-in-law has one. His account went down a few days ago, and mine just this evening. I think Apple really messed up their transition, and their communication with customers is pathetic. I’ve called the Apple support phone number and they don’t know anything, I’ve emailed them via the MobileMe support web page and didn’t get a response. Thankfully, I don’t pay for the service directly and it isn’t my primary email account, so I’m not worried. However, I’m interested why they are having troubles, so I decided to do a bit of digging.

Hi, I’ve recently made some software for administrators to help manage many printers on the network. This software currently only has a Mac OS X client, but I’ll be looking to make a Window and Linux clients too. For more information, please see the main Printer Access website.

Hi again. I recently purchased the Azur 540R Amplifier. I was looking at either a similarly priced Denon amplifier and this one. In the end, the clear winner for me was the Azur, for reasons that might be interesting to the less audiophile inclined.

Hello again. I recently got a Wii and set up the projector with a Cambridge Audio Azur 540R 5.1 surround sound. Everything is working out fairly well, but there are a few issues worth mentioning.

After many months thinking about it and about a week researching, I decided to get the above named projector. It is a cheap projector, and it is also one of the few available in New Zealand. That being said, it is also a very nice projector in many ways.

Recently myself and Ayako travelled to Japan. We had a fantastic time, and are taking a while to get back into New Zealand lifestyle. Japan has many delicious things to eat, such as Shu-Cream (This is kind of cream and custard bun) and Tako-yaki.

I have put many photographs of my trip in Japan online here: My Flickr Photostream

Backups are not always the easiest thing to setup and maintain, especially when you have complex requirements. rsync, a tool probably known by most unix geeks, is a convenient way to setup and administrate backups. This tool I have created, called ‘sync’ (but installed as lsync so as not to cause problems), is a simple set of python and ruby scripts to provide an additional layer to rsync, to address some additional requirements/features:

• Mounting and unmounting local and remote filesystems, and also, mounting local filesystems on a remote machine.
• Running the backup either on the source system, or destination system, without changing the configuration.
• Run arbitrary script on source or destination before/after backups.
• Sending backups to multiple destinations.
• Using DNS CNAMEs to specify source and destination servers, and have backup clusters reconfigure automatically.

I wanted to have a nice front-end to my subversion repositories, not only for my own use, but also to allow others to easily browse the code I make public. I made a simple ruby CGI script which you can see in action at svn.oriontransfer.org.