Upon quick reflection, it looks like Apple totally screwed up my original order. I had wanted a 15 inch PB with 512MB and English OS X and the 128mb vram card. What I got was a non-functinoal 15 inch PB with two 512MB sticks and a Japanese version of OS X. Who knows if it […]
Finally managed to get it all installed. Took about 3 hrs and a few reboots. Once it got installed, performance seems pretty reasonable. It still feels like it takes a long time to boot, but that may be because it doesn’t tell you what it’s doing. The JDS feels pretty nice. CD automounting seems to […]
Tried installing the newly released 5.4 as a guest. Its too bad that VMware doesn’t have tools support FreeBSD guests. I guess it’s just not a big enough market. It’s a shame because FreeBSD seems to run really well in the guest. A vmxnet here and a hgfs there, and it’d make a fine webserver. […]
So Yahoo!!!!! introduces a 5/month subscription service, just as I was telling my friend last night that I would go for it if it were under 10/month… but alas, it don’t work with the iPod. One can only hope that Apple will match them or even go beyond them once again. Either way, it looks […]
Powerbook is on a plane somewhere according to UPS. Refreshing the tracking page every 10 minutes is really depressing. I can’t move funds from my ING direct account to my Ameritrade account because ING has a minimum 10 day period between depositing funds and being able to withdraw those funds.
It’s funny. After you use open-source software exclusively for a few years, you get this mentality where you don’t try to push the software very hard. Complex features are expected to work only in limited cases, and if avoidable, should be avoided, unless the software has been out with that feature for more than 5 […]
Sometimes you just need to find out about Firefox’s extensions. It turns out all the fun tabbed browser settings are now in a separate extension. Great!, so obvious. I really think they should ship some of the most popular extensions with the default package, and have some quick way to turn on the ones you […]
So Mac OS X Tiger has been released and all, but why does the powerbook page on store.apple.com still say it comes with Panther and iLife ’05? Does it really still not ship with Tiger? C’mon apple, get with it. I guess either way, I’m just gonna order on Monday. On a side note, my […]
It’s amazing how much faster a Terminal Server connection is over VNC. Sure VNC is cross platform or whatever, but the difference in performance is too much to ignore. But then again, I guess Citrix or whoever has had paid developers working on it for a long time… Fortunately, vnc from an X server works […]