http://jborden.org/etc http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us jonathan@openhealth.org Jonathan Borden Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:19:22 -0500 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:19:22 -0500 iBlog 1.4.6 Jonathan Borden Etc Jonathan Borden's occasional thoughts. Etcetera. Jonathan Borden jonathan@openhealth.org Etc Arts & Entertainment http://jborden.org/etc/C1623823930/E20071119231901/index.html 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. ]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:19:01 -0500 http://jborden.org/etc/C1623823930/E20071119231901/index.html http://jborden.org/etc/C563048082/E20061006231923/index.html Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:19:23 -0400 http://jborden.org/etc/C563048082/E20061006231923/index.html http://jborden.org/etc/C2056846532/E20060723070512/index.html Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:05:12 -0400 http://jborden.org/etc/C2056846532/E20060723070512/index.html http://jborden.org/etc/C2056846532/E20060530085759/index.html Day after Memorial day in the "bunker" under Kettering Medical Center (Dayton Ohio).... It is good to get back into the Gamma Knife routine.... I am one of only five surgeons in the country doing this procedure. This procedure is a "motion sparing" type of lumbar fusion. That sounds like a bit of an oxymoron, except that this is how the device is classified by the FDA. The idea is to replace a removed nucleus pulposis (disc herniation) with a cobalt chrome sphere that restores the normal disc motion and preserves disc height. The original device, the Harmon sphere, made of vitallium, resulted in interbody fusions in some cases, hence the classification as a fusion device. ]]> Tue, 30 May 2006 08:57:59 -0400 http://jborden.org/etc/C2056846532/E20060530085759/index.html http://jborden.org/etc/C563048082/E20060423113825/index.html I was plugged into the wall for power, and I have a USB cable going to this new "audiophile" outboard DAC Bithead thingie with another cable going to my earphones which split into two and then wrap around my ears.... There are chords I haven't heard in years :-), and another firewire cable headed to an outboard drive.

...Too few cables and you are SOL. It is amazing to me that I can edit a HDV video clip on a laptop in an airport -- while I am listening to music.

In any case this fellow sits down next to me stating "You must make Steve very happy".... No stinkin dinkie Vaio can do that :-) In all seriousness though I had a tiny Vaio notebook in the late 1990s and they are the slimest lightest thing going. The issue is that the little keyboard and small screen make it hard to do real work for extended periods of time. And watching movies in HD is way better on a 15 inch screen. The 17 is too large to use comfortably on the airplane so the 15" MBP is perfect for me.... Too many cables though. ]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:38:25 -0400 http://jborden.org/etc/C563048082/E20060423113825/index.html http://jborden.org/etc/C563048082/E20060415165321/index.html I guess that the fact I am writing this in 2006 indicates that I haven't been a 'heavy' wifi user out of the home but I just found out ...... I've been shelling out $2 - $3 a day for the last decade or so on Starbucks coffee and they don't have the courtesy to give me wifi access. I turns out that the coffee at Panera bread really isn't all that bad and the wifi is free. ]]> Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:53:21 -0400 http://jborden.org/etc/C563048082/E20060415165321/index.html http://jborden.org/etc/C1623823930/E20060409213459/index.html 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. ]]> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 21:34:59 -0400 http://jborden.org/etc/C1623823930/E20060409213459/index.html http://jborden.org/etc/C1623823930/E20060406224000/index.html 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. ]]> Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:40:00 -0400 http://jborden.org/etc/C1623823930/E20060406224000/index.html