I’ve been having some odd performance issues and have been trying to track them down. A Verizon technician came out, checked my jack, my light and it all looks good. Then he heard I was still on PPoE and said “We should get you moved to DHCP” which I agreed with. This afternoon he called… Continue reading FIOS Customer Service
More SHO work
My car has been creaky lately, really creaky, so along with my milage woes, I’ve started tackling issues. First I checked the tire pressure and it was low, around 28psi. Increased to 34. Next, I took the car up to Mike at SHO Parts NW who did wonderfully on the cam sprocket welding. In the… Continue reading More SHO work
Werid Fonts Issue
Along with this security issue, Font Book ran into corrupted fonts which I removed as noted earlier. I had also tossed my Caches and byHost folder to see if that would help. As a side effect, Mail.app was drawing its from field on top of the subject field. Safari and OmniWeb had the wrong display… Continue reading Werid Fonts Issue
Whacky networking issues
For awhile I would get issues about certificate errors, etc. Today, I could not go to my webmail, check mail nor go to say godaddy.com in Safari, Omniweb nor Mail.app. After 90 mins of mucking around, deleting corrupted Fonts (now my TextMate font is all messed up, later issue) I found this thread on apple… Continue reading Whacky networking issues
Adobe Acrobat Reader Sucks
USC makes me fill out this interactive PDF for expenses. Preview does not handle these, and the damned PDF has 0s in place, so I can’t really edit it unless I buy PDFPen and put blanks over the 0s. So I download Acrobat Reader. Excuse me, I download the Acrobat Reader Downloader. Install that. That… Continue reading Adobe Acrobat Reader Sucks
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Airport Extreme N Users – Turn on your IPV6 Firewall!
As noted in the linked Ars Technica article, Apple messed up and left the IPv6 firewall off. Oops. Read Out of the box, the router will connect you to the IPv6 Internet using an automatically configured tunnel. This means putting IPv6 packets put inside regular IPv4 packets. Those of you who really want to test… Continue reading Airport Extreme N Users – Turn on your IPV6 Firewall!
Fan Noise
The set has been on for about 5 hours and we can hear the fans now. Am not sure we should be hearing the fans in a 71 degree room after 5 hours of use. Am going to check into it. Its a low to medium hum and it colors the audio from my center… Continue reading Fan Noise
Mitsubishi 57732 Review
Wow. The set arrived on time from Video Only today. The delivery guys were quick, made sure it worked and took off. I immediately adjusted the basic settings to get rid of the sharpness and overbright out of the box settings and it looks incredible, even without ISF calibration. I watched some ESPN and noticed… Continue reading Mitsubishi 57732 Review
Bought a new television!
Well I took the plunge and bought a Mitsubishi 57732 today. Its a 57″ DLP rear projection set which will take up the same space as my current set, but is shorter, which is nice for viewing, but will make playing the Wii more interesting (depending on viewing angle) I am concerned about RBE (Rainbow… Continue reading Bought a new television!
Set your router’s password!
Over at CNET there is an article about malicious javascript taking advantage of the fact that routers from Linksys, D-Link, Netgear who knows who else have known, default passwords. This hack uses your web browser to log in to your router using the default password and reprogram your router to use the hackers Domain Name… Continue reading Set your router’s password!
Roxio Rebate Scam
Roxio rejected my $20 Toast Titanium rebate for my DOWNLOADED Toast due to “missing upc proof of upgrade” (even tho I had to supply my old serial number). I got a nice little postcard in the mail, so i called the rebate center and the dude looked up my rebate and immediately oked it. What… Continue reading Roxio Rebate Scam
AirDisk
Apple’s new Airport Extreme N base station has a neat feature called AirDisk. You can attach drives to the USB 2 port on the base station and share them with users on your network, or over the internet apparently. Installation is easy. With the Airport Utility, you click Disks and choose how you want to… Continue reading AirDisk
Airport Extreme N has landed!
I got an IM today and was told my new Aiport Extreme N basestation was in at the Mac Store! So I headed on over and picked it up. After I finished work, I plugged it into the laptop via ethernet to configure it. The Airport Assistant was easy to use and it even told… Continue reading Airport Extreme N has landed!
Curing microwave oven odors
I, like every other microwave oven owner, has had to deal with the buildup of smells in their oven. I clean mine, and will even more now that I’ve gone back to scrubbing sponges thanks to new data showing that nuking a sponge for 2 minutes kills all bacteria in them! However, thats still not… Continue reading Curing microwave oven odors
The Real Solution to DRM
Don’t buy any music from the big four labels. None of it. No iTunes music, no CDs, and best of all, don’t pirate it. Don’t listen to it. Don’t tell your friends about it. If the RIAA wants Apple to license DRM so they can cram it down our throats even deeper, I say a… Continue reading The Real Solution to DRM
Calling Apple to task
Over at the get a mac page is a wonderful new “Security” ad discussing Vista’s over zealous firewall. On the same page is this text: No upgrade nightmares. Before you can even think about Vista, you’ll likely need a new PC. Or upgrades for memory, hard disk, and graphics card. Why go through all that… Continue reading Calling Apple to task
Sophie running on the $100 laptop
Bert has gotten Sophie running on the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) hardware (which runs linux). Performance is not great, but that can come later. Pretty exciting for such complex software running on such affordable hardware. I wonder how Michael’s anti-aliased text works? 🙂 Read About Sophie on OLPC And Bert’s original post here
Need Vista? Get a Mac!
On CNN.com a story titled “Gates: Vista all about the Wow” had running right next to it the video for the Apple Get A Mac “Surgery” ad. I love it.
“Gates Proclaims Internet to Revolutionize TV in 5 Years”
Gates Proclaims Internet to Revolutionize TV in 5 Years. Meanwhile, Steve Jobs yawns and says “So last MacWorld“