Posted in vintage on Aug 25th, 2024
I think I may have used a classic Macintosh once in my life, at a Kinko’s copy location of all places. We didn’t have them in school, we went from Commodore CBMs, to Apple IIe, to IBM PC 8088 clones. At the ISP I borrowed a customer’s PowerBook overnight so I could get experience with […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2012
I frequently eat weekend/late night breakfast in diners alone, with iPad in tow to catch up on books I’m reading or browse Wikipedia over few cups of coffee. Despite iPads being out for a couple of years now and practically all over the media, strangers sitting next to me frequently stare inquisitively and ask what […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2010
If you’re like me, you have a home LAN filled with various contraptions, computers, mobile devices and the ubiquitous server in the closet. Usually there’s no DNS zone containing your home devices, if anything, maybe a static /etc/hosts entry on your desktop to give a short hostname to your closet server. Otherwise, people just use […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 30th, 2010
I discovered today there’s a way to bring IPv6 connectivity to your iPhone, even if you don’t have v6 wifi nor v6 cellular data. There’s a Cisco AnyConnect client for iPhone which speaks SSL VPN (TLS/DTLS) to an ASA. The release notes say “Access to internal IPv4 and IPv6 network resources”. I take this to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2010
God bless the blue-shirts at Apple stores for helping non-tech savvy users find what they want, but they try too hard when you already know what you want. I had heard stories of this, but hadn’t experienced it yet. I walked into the Apple store today to buy a Mini. That’s it. After waiting around […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2010
I’ve suddenly discovered the iPad is deadly convenient for books and movies. Instead of milling around Barnes & Noble or waiting for a 2-day FedEx from Amazon, I can one-click order things and they show up via the Kindle app on the iPad. Want to watch a movie? It’s usually right there with Netflix streaming. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2010
I do a lot of reading on my iPhone. Beyond e-mail, news and Twitter, wherever I light I spent more time reading lengthy whitepapers, vendor documentation, and the occasional blog post. Scrolling around and pinching on a little screen to see details of illustrations or the next column gets old after a while. So, I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2009
After another early venture to the Apple store, I finally got my hands on an iPhone. Today I discovered the speaker doesn’t work. At first I thought it was a Feature[tm] that iTunes, games, etc didn’t play sound without the ear buds. Then I called it and discovered it doesn’t ring at all. A call […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2008
New fans installed in MacBook Pro. Expensive lil buggers, $49 each from eBay. One of the more tricky MBP repairs I’ve done. Several fiddly little wires to move out of the way. After spending 45 minutes flipping through Google Earth on dual monitors, I declare success since it didn’t overheat and shutdown. Since I’m now […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2007
I’m amused, the FAA airport facility directory for the Empire, NV airport (1A8) has a remark “displaced threshold marked by 8 white tires.” There’s also a one-foot berm around the runway, presumably to keep all the dust clear. I’m headed to Amsterdam either the week before or the week of Christmas. A colleague decided against […]
