Usually, my Tivo only records one or two “suggestions” each day, I've had it long enough that it's gotten pretty well trained. Until today, that is. Over the last 24 hours or so it recorded about 20 new suggestions, and most of it makes no sense at all. It recorded ballroom dancing, a biopic on … [Read more…]
Lost among all the iPhone & Apple TV hype was the release of Apple's new Airport Extreme wireless router. Not only does it support the uber-fast draft 802.11n spec (which, it turns out, all of Apple's recent Core 2-based laptops had 802.11n cards pretending to be 802.11g cards, requiring only a firmware update to enable) … [Read more…]
Let's see… My iPod went wonky and had to be restored. I find this out shortly before I'm walking out the door, so there wasn't enough time to re-sync everything before I left. Strangely, it did copy over what I wanted to hear anyway. My wireless router is emitting this really annoying high-pitched whine. Probably … [Read more…]
I mentioned in my previous post that there's still a couple of things I'm not sure about how to deal with in transitioning from my desktop G5 to my MacBook Pro laptop. This means it's time to ramble on about Macs again! Sitting down and typing all this stuff out usually helps me organize my … [Read more…]
Speaking of $3,000 manifestations of unhappiness… *laugh* I'm really impressed with my new MacBook Pro so far. It's not without it's flaws, but it's overall the nicest computer I've ever owned. Certainly the first (and perhaps only?) time I've ever bought the current top-of-the-line (read: most expensive) Mac one could buy. It's fast. Damn fast. … [Read more…]
I finally did it yesterday. I bought the 17″ MacBook Pro I've been gearlusting after all these weeks. (Which hopefully means I'll stop cluttering up this blog with all these MacBook postings. *laugh*) I'm already feeling a bit of that buyer's remorse after making such a mojor purchase. Thinking about all the other things I … [Read more…]
I cam across a link to this screencast this morning, and now I've got a case of gearlust for a new Intel Mac all the more! It shows a couple of the new features for the new version of virtualization software Parallels. First, if you've used Apple's Boot Camp to dual boot the mac, you … [Read more…]
This week, I got the check from the freelance project I sacrificed so much sleep over a couple weeks back. I should have another check from a different project within the next week or so as well. Between the two of them, it's more than enough to buy a MacBook Pro and the required accessories … [Read more…]
I got a little scare from my iPod this morning when it appeared to have died. I went to use it in the car this morning, and it wouldn't boot. It would show the black boot up screen with the Apple logo, and then the screen would get all garbled and it would shut off. … [Read more…]
With yesterday's update to Apple's MacBook Pro line I've got the worst case of gearlust I've had in a really long time. I want a 17″ MacBook Pro so bad I can taste it right now. *laugh* I just submitted an invoice for some freelance work I did over the summer, which would be enough … [Read more…]
I woke up this morning to find that my Tivo had recorded about 10 hours worth of stuff from HGTV. It's never recorded anything like that before, I haven't been watching or recording anything like that, so what made it decide I wanted to watch that stuff? And it hasn't recorded that many programs on … [Read more…]
As I mentioned a couple days ago, I've undertaken the project of wiping clean my Mac and re-installing everything. The system has been acting very sluggish, windows have started forgetting their settings, along with a myriad of other little niggles that have led to a really frustrating experience lately. I managed to clear of more … [Read more…]
I'm growing increasingly frustrated with not having any place to listen to music in my apartment other than the computer room. I'm suddenly in the mood today to blast some Soundgarden, but the only place I can listen to music (aside from carrying around my iPod, and the headphones just won't cut it) right now … [Read more…]
So, according to this article, along with several others making their way around the net today, Diebold voting machines can be unlocked using the key from a hotel mini-bar. The lock/key used for these machines is actually a very common piece of hardware that's used for everything from jukeboxes to file cabinets to hotel mini-bars. … [Read more…]
If it weren't for the fact that every single aspect of my company's technology migration had gone wrong every step of the way, I might think I was suffering from the bad technology mojo today. In particular, the shared server that we store all our project files is running a whole new kind of slow … [Read more…]