Technology

Mon - November 19, 2007

Leopard Upgrade Woes...

Very bad Apple, very very bad... I just upgraded my laptop to Leopard (10.5) -- it trashed my filevault enabled home folder...

...Bad Apple, very very bad Apple. This is worse than any Microsoft screwup I've encountered.

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Sun - April 9, 2006

Windows on Mac

Loaded both the Parallels VM as well as boot camp on my shiny new Macbook (Pro).... I remember why I like OS X so much :-)) Actually both installs went smoothly. The trick to getting Airport to work with Parallells is to select en1. I am still trying to get the two virtual machines to connect to eachother over the network -- while preserving as much of each of the respective firewalls as I can. At the very least I can ping the VM so I am sure that it won't be too difficult to mount the VM drive using Windows Sharing.

Of course this type of activity is old hat in the computer world and for Virtual PC users but to have things work at usable speeds and on a laptop no less is really terrific.

...an expensive system that allows us to view MRI and CT scans across the hospital network, and via a VPN on a browser ... the kicker is that GE in their infinite wisdom have implemented their browser based system such that Internet Explorer (on a PC) is required ...

...At this point in time the USB based GPS devices (that have good software) require the PC.

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Thu - April 6, 2006

I just received my Macbook Pro

I assume it is a revision D board because it is in the W8614 serial number series.

I ordered a custom configuration from the Apple website last Sunday -- free shipping. On Monday I received an email that the order was received and being processed. On Tuesday I received an email that the order was being shipped with a Fedex tracking number.... Before going to work Wednesday I checked the tracking again ... the package had gone from Alaska to Indianapolis IN, and by (apparently) overnight truck to Loveland OH.

Posted at 10:40 PM Read More