Monthly Archives: March 2005

Server upgrade is all done! Things seem to work, but I’m kinda punchy and may not be thinking straight enough to test everything out.

Took a lot longer than I expected, mostly because I decided to be extra careful and backed up the internal drives from the old server onto an iPod using Carbon Copy Cloner. Took nearly five hours to copy four gigabytes… I was astounded at how slow it was. Tack on another 45 minutes for me to run home, get a screwdriver and run back and the whole process should have been over around 7:30, 8 pm.

Just fair warning to all and sundry that the ‘blog may be going for a bit of a wander in the semi-near future. I’m getting an order in to the Apple store for a nice little Mac Mini for home server use. When it arrives and is set up to serve then this whole shootin’ match will be lovingly boxed up and relocated elsewhere.

Just a handy tip for anyone using WebRemote on my recommendation: take it slow. Don’t just click track after track to add them to the playlist. You need to give it time to finish reloading the interface each time or it’ll lock up and start using all the processor time it can. I’ve sent an email to the author and heard back from him already, so this may get taken care of in a future update. We’ll see if he can match the excellent standard set by NIXANZ software’s amazing Snail Mail…

So you say you want to control iTunes remotely, without having to bother with all those pesky things like a remote desktop connection or a web interface? How about a command-line based scripting tool?

Check it out at acmetech…