Category Archives: Journal

Personal observations, analysis, opinions.

Dealing with “Installation failed” in pkgbuild caused by a preinstall/postinstall bash script

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Dae

So I was writing an installer for the SmoothMouse kernel extension using pkgbuild/productbuild and there was one bug which I couldn’t get my head around for a couple of hours. Basically, Apple Installer always reported failed installation (without any useful … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Synology NAS / DSM 4.0

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Dae

Update: I decided to remove my original post because it was overly wordy and some of the issues I complained about have been eventually addressed in the subsequent versions of DSM. Generally my concern was about Synology not paying enough … Continue reading →

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Price range of a dated DDR2 memory module

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dae

I find it notable that the price for a dated but rare DDR2 SO-DIMM memory module may vary from $16 (such as here) to $700-900 (here, here and here). And I suppose there are people who buy that, unfortunately.

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