About to turn things off and go to bed with Internet radio, as usual, but wanted to note that I did get the ethernet setup between Madge and iMac working ok, using share my internet connection on the iMac to anyone on ethernet. I had both ethernets set to dhcp and away it went. Even VLC worked with no glitches, and I hope it will work ok when the Time Capsule access point arrives It should be shipping soon.. in fact I ought to check my Mac Mail acct and see. No, not yet, but the Slim superdrive for Air is shipping!
Only ordered the latter so that I could play audio CDs and DvDs..
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Friday, 22 February 2008
Trouble with right wrist
Meant to write more yesterday and today, but my right wrist is painful so, briefly, today's SuperDuper backup using Smart copy, took 24 minutes and might well have been quicker if I had caught Sentry action sooner..
Decided to buy key for LCC and got Clip Doubler into the package for $12. Also downloaded MacScan, which I'll probably buy for AIR too.
Thats it for now.. I had another optical migraine an hour or so ago btw, while listening to a podcast about solar panel research! Weird..
Decided to buy key for LCC and got Clip Doubler into the package for $12. Also downloaded MacScan, which I'll probably buy for AIR too.
Thats it for now.. I had another optical migraine an hour or so ago btw, while listening to a podcast about solar panel research! Weird..
Thursday, 21 February 2008
WD Passport
Yesterday the Passport USB 320GB drive turned up in a scruffy brown paper bundle, and it was the usual struggle to remove it from one of those thick plastic display packages which can seriously damage at best your fingers ;) Eventually I got it out.. it looks great, is unbelievably tiny, totally silent, but not madly fast!
I plugged it in on the iMac, erased the current PC format using Disk utility, and iPartitioned four ca. 75GB partitions, which I labelled clone2 to avoid confusion on the iMac. Next was to try SuperDuper on Madge, this was a bit scary after WD's email saying "The Passport hard drive's will require anywhere between 500 to 1000 milliamp's for proper usage." when the Air manages 500! It worked though, first time through using 'smart copy' was pretty slow at about 5MB/sec (perhaps I should have used erase/copy the first time), but after an hour or so it completed OK :)
From there I took it to the iMac and backed up Leopard, Tiger and Music partitions, finishing the latter at around 9pm...
I plugged it in on the iMac, erased the current PC format using Disk utility, and iPartitioned four ca. 75GB partitions, which I labelled clone2 to avoid confusion on the iMac. Next was to try SuperDuper on Madge, this was a bit scary after WD's email saying "The Passport hard drive's will require anywhere between 500 to 1000 milliamp's for proper usage." when the Air manages 500! It worked though, first time through using 'smart copy' was pretty slow at about 5MB/sec (perhaps I should have used erase/copy the first time), but after an hour or so it completed OK :)
From there I took it to the iMac and backed up Leopard, Tiger and Music partitions, finishing the latter at around 9pm...
Catch up on Wednesday's events
A lot of time was spent turning extensions off and on and restarting Firefox on the iMac, looking for the reason behind the RTM tab not loading properly. In the end I traced it to Google's Gears extension and the RTM entry! Removing the latter fixed things immediately, BUT it was not possible to use the 'offline' function which is what Gears is all about..
The strange thing is that I upgraded Madge's version of Firefox with nearly all of the extensions, but there RTM loads perfectly, and I can flip between on/offline with no problem!
I started a thread on this at RTM help ( I am now a paid up Pro member of RTM btw, $25 ) but so far no comments other than my own status reports. Oops, got sidetracked by people complaining about Twitter direct to RTM not working and had to post comments ;)
OK, the only snag ref. the above RTM tab fix is Gears keeps asking me to add RTM!
The strange thing is that I upgraded Madge's version of Firefox with nearly all of the extensions, but there RTM loads perfectly, and I can flip between on/offline with no problem!
I started a thread on this at RTM help ( I am now a paid up Pro member of RTM btw, $25 ) but so far no comments other than my own status reports. Oops, got sidetracked by people complaining about Twitter direct to RTM not working and had to post comments ;)
OK, the only snag ref. the above RTM tab fix is Gears keeps asking me to add RTM!
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Gutenprint installed
Before I forget, just wanted to note that I installed Gutenprint remotely from My Book4 attached to the iMac, and all I had to do was select print, when the Epson was found by Bonjour and away it went. Most impressive!
When the highspeed access point-cum-print server-cum-storage server arrives, I'll be able to turn off the iMac and access Music, printer and internet..
When the highspeed access point-cum-print server-cum-storage server arrives, I'll be able to turn off the iMac and access Music, printer and internet..
Skoleferie round here
Thought it was quiet.. pure graveyard! Allows me to sleep better though :)
I have been busy gradually if that isn't an oxymoron.. adding various apps which I use on the iMac. Have paid for an extra copy of AppZapper which I find useful when looking for possible remnants, and I bought an extra copy of Little Snitch, which makes an effective firewall.
Its amazing how many good apps are donate- or freeware, like Adium, arRsync, Appfresh, ClamXav, Temperature Monitor, etc.. not to forget the Firefox extensions, many of which I have added to Madge.
Yesterday I installed and briefly tested iMindmap (after sorting out the license issue), yes it will be as easy to use as on iMac.
Today I fully intend to email Kevin and Peter, after which I will take RTM into more frequent use, assuming its useful.
I have been busy gradually if that isn't an oxymoron.. adding various apps which I use on the iMac. Have paid for an extra copy of AppZapper which I find useful when looking for possible remnants, and I bought an extra copy of Little Snitch, which makes an effective firewall.
Its amazing how many good apps are donate- or freeware, like Adium, arRsync, Appfresh, ClamXav, Temperature Monitor, etc.. not to forget the Firefox extensions, many of which I have added to Madge.
Yesterday I installed and briefly tested iMindmap (after sorting out the license issue), yes it will be as easy to use as on iMac.
Today I fully intend to email Kevin and Peter, after which I will take RTM into more frequent use, assuming its useful.
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Early Sunday morning
Powered up Madge as the AIR is now called, and paired the Nokia MD-7W Bluetooth 'loudspeakers' and am currently listening to a Rachmaninov piece.. they suit the AIR very well. I see also that Gizmo automatically uses them. Will try VLC next.
Am going to continue bringing Madge up to the iMac status where relevant. Its amazing what I have accumulated over the year. Next is iPhonesque, a Growl msg style, and then a few Greasemonkey scripts to find.
Am going to continue bringing Madge up to the iMac status where relevant. Its amazing what I have accumulated over the year. Next is iPhonesque, a Growl msg style, and then a few Greasemonkey scripts to find.
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