Leopard Scorecard

Here are the result of installing OS X Leopard: My Laptop – Success MacBook Pro, hardware is a few months old and consequently the installed OS is equally old. I used the “upgrade” install (as opposed to the “archive and replace” install, as I didn’t realize there were two different places in the installer to … Continue reading Leopard Scorecard

A list of +/- with standard deviation

Earlier this week, I was in a constant cranky mood. This is mainly because of an ill-timed muscle knotting in my neck. I guess I slept funny on Sunday and tweaked those ropy muscles at the base of the skull. Today, I am feeling almost completely better. The real kick in the pants was this … Continue reading A list of +/- with standard deviation

Stuff

I just finished reading Spook Country and have to wonder if this story about a missing $9 billion is art imitating life or life imitating art. (via digg) Also: …which has been first scribbled upon and then pixelated so that you don’t steal my digits! It will be held on to until the new OS … Continue reading Stuff

iPhone / netnice

Similar to what they did with Aperture rebates a while back, they’ll be doing the same thing with the iPhone. $100 ain’t too shabby. Do any of you Unix-heads know if there is some network-equivalent of the “nice” command for limiting bandwidth under Linux and/or OS X? For instance, it might let me issue a … Continue reading iPhone / netnice

iPhones and iPods

Dear Internet: Stop whining about the iPhone price drop. Yes, it dropped by $200 today, only 67 days after its initial release. Yes, that is $3/day. Yes, that is a rather quick price drop for any piece of popular new technology (the crappy technology that nobody wants is an entirely different matter…) But it’s no … Continue reading iPhones and iPods

Apple Keyboard

After playing with the new Apple keyboard for 5-10 minutes at the Apple Store the other week (the sales folks were curious as to why I was writing what looked like code into a TextEdit window), I decided to get one. The key spacing isn’t a big deal at all–they just squared the beveled edges … Continue reading Apple Keyboard

iPhone Questions

I present a number of unanswered questions — the main reasons why I will not be getting an iPhone for at least a week or two (if not longer or ever): * Does it support dialup networking? Dialup networking via Bluetooth? One of the features I love about my Treo is that I can put … Continue reading iPhone Questions