eBook investment

Yesterday, I decided to bring myself up to date on things Leopard, so I invested $10 in the eBook "Take Control of Permissions in Leopard, 1Ed" by a Tankara IIRC.. its very easy to follow and so far by halfway I have learnt a few useful things about Info and the cmd option I version. Also that Info only allows you to change permissions down through sub-folders, not ownership..

Wednesday, a pure write off..

Yes, for Time Capsule too, but this was more personal as I had suffered from diarrhoea since 3:30am until 9 am or so, one could never be sure for the rest of the morning...

I called TNT with my tracking number and was given a strange answer, Yes it had been sent, and would arrive tomorrow, Thursday, uh? Sent from Holland! Yet I had received "We are pleased to send you this dispatch regarding your Apple Store order W84920598. Your order was shipped on 28.02.2008." from Apple days ago!

I'm afraid my opinion of TNT is not very high.. & I doubt it will arrive today either.

Disappointed..

The post van pulled up in the drive, and I thought Time Capsule had arrived, but it was the Mac Mini hub I ordered from Amentio on Sunday IIRC. I tried it on Madge, but it wasn't having it! The Passport light flashed regularly, but no disk mounted. Couldn't log out with it connected either.

Tried it on an iMac port and there the hub and passport came up and worked ok. Hopefully it will work on the Capsule when it arrives...

Belkin 4-port usb hub

Have now found & read the Time Capsule manual, and assuming the Epson printer and the WD Passport drive work OK when connected to TC, I have found a usb hub at Amentio for 200,- which should do the job of connecting both..

Time Capsule shipped!

Finally, its on its way, and should arrive around Wednesday next. That will be exciting.. I have already installed a dyndns client on iMac, as Apple has not previously supported automatic updating of ddns like Linksys.

I installed the same client on Madge yesterday, and was suprised to find my IP had not been automatically updated since November when I changed the password at dyndns!

Reading a discussions post today, made me realize that the 500GB disk will be accessible by anyone on the internet with the address and password.. I think a stronger password is called for!

Excessive temperature

This was pretty scary. A syslogd process was using 95% cpu the fan started blowing and things got hot! 83 degrees C..

I emailed the LCC people about their engine & clamscan drawing 190% but the reply didn't really help.

I found a couple of tips which did though. First was to place a firm surface under Madge so the air vents could work, and 2nd install Fan Control which let me adjust fan on times.

Superdrive arrived

It was delivered by post, from UPS. Very nicely packed, a silvery square to match Madge. It worked ok on an audio CD via iTunes, but there was one big snag! Damned if I could eject the CD. Ended up powering Madge off, which is no solution to live with, should it happen again.