ingenious

My new linksys router was about to go back to frys when I discovered that OS X has a network setting called “DHCP plus manual address” in which you can specify just the IP address that you want, but get all the rest of the info from the DHCP. It seems like a violation of […]

Aiyaiyai

What a day. My new notebook is obsoleted, just like that. Actually, not really. I’m sure Steve Jobs and Apple is not dumb enough to abandon its installed base of PPC customers. It would have been nice if it had happened a few years earlier though.. then I really wouldn’t have had to venture over […]

Fun with Gmail POP

So I finally decided to try to wean myself off the gmail interface and use mail.app instead. Mail.app is a fantastically written program, and its smart folders are so fast even for thousands of messages. I successfully downloaded all my 100megs of gmail email to my powerbook so far. Everything seems to work alright except […]

3 of 4

Wow, got most of it done and its just saturday. The room has much less random pieces of paper laying around (thanks to my filling box), the farmer’s market was so-so but not super (the Rainbow co-op is better), and the Heats vs Pistons game was a blow-out (I’m really looking forward to a Detroit […]

Planned Obsolesense

c|net is running an article claiming that Apple is moving to Intel chips… If it’s really true, what does it mean about my brand new laptop? Does it mean in less than 2 years, nobody will be writing new apps for it? I can’t imagine most development houses are going to like developing for two […]

Back from NYC

A few days of decent weather, good food, and interesting walks. Took the car from downtown Brooklyn to JFK again. It’s really sad to see how the outskirts of Brooklyn are in such bad shape. The Powerbook was in its finest form, though on one occasion I did figure out how to make it lock […]