Tomorrow is a big day in the life of the project I am on. Elizabeth, knowing these last push days are hell, stopped by while I was out at PMUG last night and left me some gifts: A note on the door to look on my desk. A stressball there and a note to look… Continue reading I have one cool girlfriend
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Open letter to ABC – Don’t disable my fast forward button
As noted on Slashdot, ABC wants to try and disable the fast forward buttons of DVRs for commercials. Dear ABC, Should you succeed in crippling my DVR, I will succeed in removing your programs on both ABC and ESPN channel groups from my viewing list. I don’t need your content, however you need my eyeballs.… Continue reading Open letter to ABC – Don’t disable my fast forward button
Adobe releases public beta of Flash 9 for intel Macs
A day after I posted to their technote saying ‘the best way to improve this technote is to ship the intel version,” Adobe delivers. You can thank me later. 🙂 Read
Much cooler today
Woke up to the heater on (sigh). It was 67 inside, nice and cool. Heater turned off. Went to Home Depot last night and bought reflectix, which is essentially aluminum paper bubble wrap. Didn’t pay attention to the R-values as there are many rules on the instruction sheet. So I took down one of the… Continue reading Much cooler today
Jiffylube, EZLube caught screwing customers
Buyer beware! Watch
Finest Haunted Mansion papercraft model ever
Boing Boing reports on a cool new Haunted Mansion papercraft model! Read
Test Drive Office 2007 for Windows
while not a mac story, Ars has a story on how Microsoft is letting people test drive the new Office 2007 beta not by downloading it, but by running it over the Internet using Citrix, which allows you to log into a remote machine much like VPC, or Timbuktu. I find this quite novel actually,… Continue reading Test Drive Office 2007 for Windows
Review of the new Pirates of the Caribbean attraction
A quite nice, not too spoiling review of the movification of our beloved attraction can be read here.
Browncoats and heat!
Friday night I went to see a charity screening of Serenity with Charles and Janet. We had dinner with Elizabeth ahead of time, then carpooled to downtown and found parking. We had drinks at the Gypsy, which was donating 10% of all food sales to Equality Now. The screening and raffle tickets proceedings were donated… Continue reading Browncoats and heat!
Happy 43rd Birthday, Tiki Room!
Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room turns 43 today!
Don’t take your MacBook/Pro to the beach!
Thanks to Dave for this link of a MagSafe connector attracting sand.
Congratulations, Beavers!
The Oregon State Beavers shut out the #2 Rice Owls for two games straight to advance to the championship round of the College World Series. After losing game 1 11-1 to the Miami Hurricanes, the Beavs came back to beat the Canes, then the Owls twice to double eliminate them and move on. Now they… Continue reading Congratulations, Beavers!
Be wary of your laptop battery
Here are two recent stories of laptop batteries catching fire. I think I’ll be turning my laptop off when I am not around, although I am not sure if that will actually prevent a battery from exploding. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32550 http://wcco.com/consumer/local_story_148150249.html
The Princess Bride – 2006 Edition
yes my favorite movie, The Princess Bride, has been re-re-released. This marks the fourth time I have purchased it. Laserdisc, DVD, not-as-crappy Special Edition DVD, very nice DVD. This new edition comes in two box covers, The Dread Pirate edition and The Princess Buttercup edition. I bought the latter because the art depicts them face… Continue reading The Princess Bride – 2006 Edition
Speed!
More tests to http://nitro.ucsc.edu, running Talisman 1.2 RC1 on a Linksys WRT54GS 1.1: 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 1.93Mb/s running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 14.97Mb/s Yeah!
A couple of days with an Airport Extreme Base Station
ok I really want this to work. I bought a refurb base station at The Mac Store. I did this crazy thing because of my iChat woes and also to test the hardware and latest firmware. Nothing like an overzealous geek. I brought it home and plugged it into my G5. Upon opening the Airport… Continue reading A couple of days with an Airport Extreme Base Station
Initial Airport Extreme tests
LAN and Wifi speeds comparable to WRT54GS. Elizabeth’s PC no connecty to Apple. Probably her older drivers. Have not updated yet. Went back to WRT. Of course Talisman 1.2 RC2 broke wifi, and some firewall issues kept some of it from working at all (no google, etc) so downgraded to RC1. Fun eh? All to… Continue reading Initial Airport Extreme tests
Have I complained about iChat lately?
As you can tell from my mystic posts, I’ve been trying to solve this can’t iChat AV in Tiger issue even though I’m talking to people with PhDs and what not. Or not talking to them should I say. I had Vonage switch to SIP port 5061, but then eliminated the Vonage router altogether and… Continue reading Have I complained about iChat lately?
MacBookPro broadband wireless speed results
Over 802.11g via my Linksys WRT54GS 1.1 running Talisman/Basic 1.2.devsnap.RC1 http://http://nitro.ucsc.edu/ is the test suite. TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.3d click START to begin Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client to server) . .… Continue reading MacBookPro broadband wireless speed results
My latest port triggering iChat/Vonage saga
Sigh. I hate iChat. Damn reliance on routers. Anyway, had Vonage move to port 5061 (they said they were at 10,000? no, they are clueless, was probably 5060) and then changed router to use these settings: We’ll see.