Was thinking about mac vs pc stuff again. For the most part, my latest pc experiences have been exactly what I expected them to be. A little more work on my part, but for it, I get more for less money, and more flexibility. The money part is interesting. I did basically did the calculation: […]
I like to change the color of the aeroglass windows once in a while for a change of mood. But Microsoft made it really hard to actually pick from a wide range of colors. While the control panel allows you to set the color, the following problem arise: The color of the text in the […]
I recently went through the exercise of setting up a karaoke system for home use. Here are my notes, in case someone finds them useful. There are a few “set top box” style systems out there around the $200-300 mark. As far as I can tell, they are all crap. They are cheap DVD players […]
Traded in my 15 inch macbook pro for a thinkpad x201. Bunch of reasons this time: mbp was slowing down frequently, requiring reboot. something to do with regularly running cityville, or plugging and unplugging from a 30 inch display. WindowServer would start taking major cpu time when there’s no activity, and entire desktop would feel […]
For whatever reason, using my new motherboard’s sata ports in AHCI mode with the standard Win7 driver causes my internal drives to show up as potentially removable devices. On top of that, on a resume from suspend, my larger 2TB drive sometimes takes a while to wake up, and this appears to the OS as […]
It’s official a tradition now. First up, resolutions from last year: Exercise: FAIL Speak more Japanese to Kaio: FAIL Be “smarter” at work: WIN Take more photos and videos: FAIL Move this blog to some hosted service: WIN Yes, the last one is a really lame one. It doesn’t count. So basically, I failed at […]