Yesterday's comment to the earlier Time Capsule (TC) post reminded me it was ages since I had updated this journal,, I have been making notes with MindNode Pro on iMac and the vanilla version on AIR, but, here goes on this early morning.
Yesterday Susan SMS'ed med about massive thunderclouds approaching Nærsnes. I couldn't hear any but pulled the plugs anyway. We had a hail storm, and once it had well and truly passed, I plugged everything back in, but the wifi net didn't come up. I then spent an hour or more confirming the Time Capsule had died. possibly hastened to its end by the full backup of iMac using Time Machine earlier that day.
I had to reconfigure things so the Airport Extreme took over as Internet router from TC, which required me to reset the AIrport Express to the new network name AE 245 (n/b & g compatible). God this short amount of text has used 8% of AIR battery..
In the end all but Squeezebox wi-fi worked, and contact with Eplehuset gave me the hope that the repair might be covered by AppleCare agreements on both iMac and AIR. :)
Susan kindly agreed to a Sandvika trip so I can drop it off today.
That's the news for now.
Friday, 15 May 2009
Monday, 2 March 2009
Posting from Safari 4
Well I have the AIR back now, and have been busy installing replacement apps for the Readerware set, i.e. Bookpedia, CDpedia and DVDpedia. The three databases are on the Time Capsule's Data folder and accessible therefore both from iMac and AIR.
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
My AIR test using Scribefire
Well, I got it to work with Frafam, now for a quick test to the AIR Journal
Friday, 23 January 2009
Macbook AIR in for repair
Its been a while, but I thought I should add that with just a couple of weeks to go of my warranty the iSight camera gave up! So I took it in to Eplehuset by bus, through the sludge.. was surprised just how small Eplehuset in Sandvika Storcenter was. I wonder whether they will advise just what was repaired when I get it back?
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Hard to believe..
Just checked my AIR Journal to find the last entry was July 16th!
Since then I have been reading avidly.. both crime stories, a number of new authors, and then in September the financial crisis took off, which resulted in my ordering a bunch of books that enabled me to build up a good background of the causes of the miserable mess...
Since then I have been reading avidly.. both crime stories, a number of new authors, and then in September the financial crisis took off, which resulted in my ordering a bunch of books that enabled me to build up a good background of the causes of the miserable mess...
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Catching up after the eye op...
Just after my last post I had the eye op. in Drammen. Susan drove me and all went well, but it was uncomfortable reading and writing for the rest of the week, partly due to the salve I had to use 3 times a day til the following Friday.
Anyway, now I'm back in business and there's quite a bit to mention.. first I updated Suse to KDE 4.1 RC1. That went surprisingly smoothly, though at first I didn't realize where you could select it, i.e. on the login page which normally is bypassed. Nvidia is working well and the fonts are better now, so Suse is really looking good when you compare its 1280x1024 resolution, approx the same as the Macbook, with the iMac which is much higher definition. There was also an update which included a kernel update. Luckily I had read the 'new posts' and noticed a grub error thread, as it hit me too. The new kernel entries were made in menu.lst, but slightly wrong.. hd0 instead of (hd0,1) in a couple of places.. made a new Eltorito CD and backed up using both Paragon and Macrium. The latter is distinctly faster on both the XP drive and the Suse drive.
Next was a Firefox - Dropbox fiasco. Oddly enough I had returned the PC to its normal profile a few days earlier without trouble, but both Macs refused to let me in after the change, saying there already was a copy of FF open. In the end I had to bite the bullet, Zap FF and reinstall from scratch. This went fast enough, but I had forgotten it would zap the passwords too.. so now I have clean copies which keep asking me for old passwords, until they have been re-entered :(
Next was July 11th, another of those absurd Apple days with people actually queuing up overnight for the privilege of buying an iPhone 3G in a store - that was the only way you could buy one! That I'll never do! And of course the systems crashed, the queues took ages to move as the servers were down, people were sent home to complete the activation through iTunes and had to sit there hitting a key for 4 hours or so in order to complete.. of course Apple gets a tremendous amount of attention as a result and even negative factors seem to benefit them! I'm waiting for the first Android, about which it has been very quiet lately, but I think an HTC model will be out in a couple of months ;)
MobileMe was updated at about the same time as above, and even that was a screw up, so much so that everyone is getting 30 days extension of their agreement! I'll try it again early one morning and see how it like updating my iTunes folder now.. bet its still running at 15-20KB/sec.
That's about it.. I removed Acronis True Image totally from the PC and am keeping both Paragon and Macrium images in easily recognized folders on the combo drive. Really must take 2nd level backups to the new REDNTFS partition.
Anyway, now I'm back in business and there's quite a bit to mention.. first I updated Suse to KDE 4.1 RC1. That went surprisingly smoothly, though at first I didn't realize where you could select it, i.e. on the login page which normally is bypassed. Nvidia is working well and the fonts are better now, so Suse is really looking good when you compare its 1280x1024 resolution, approx the same as the Macbook, with the iMac which is much higher definition. There was also an update which included a kernel update. Luckily I had read the 'new posts' and noticed a grub error thread, as it hit me too. The new kernel entries were made in menu.lst, but slightly wrong.. hd0 instead of (hd0,1) in a couple of places.. made a new Eltorito CD and backed up using both Paragon and Macrium. The latter is distinctly faster on both the XP drive and the Suse drive.
Next was a Firefox - Dropbox fiasco. Oddly enough I had returned the PC to its normal profile a few days earlier without trouble, but both Macs refused to let me in after the change, saying there already was a copy of FF open. In the end I had to bite the bullet, Zap FF and reinstall from scratch. This went fast enough, but I had forgotten it would zap the passwords too.. so now I have clean copies which keep asking me for old passwords, until they have been re-entered :(
Next was July 11th, another of those absurd Apple days with people actually queuing up overnight for the privilege of buying an iPhone 3G in a store - that was the only way you could buy one! That I'll never do! And of course the systems crashed, the queues took ages to move as the servers were down, people were sent home to complete the activation through iTunes and had to sit there hitting a key for 4 hours or so in order to complete.. of course Apple gets a tremendous amount of attention as a result and even negative factors seem to benefit them! I'm waiting for the first Android, about which it has been very quiet lately, but I think an HTC model will be out in a couple of months ;)
MobileMe was updated at about the same time as above, and even that was a screw up, so much so that everyone is getting 30 days extension of their agreement! I'll try it again early one morning and see how it like updating my iTunes folder now.. bet its still running at 15-20KB/sec.
That's about it.. I removed Acronis True Image totally from the PC and am keeping both Paragon and Macrium images in easily recognized folders on the combo drive. Really must take 2nd level backups to the new REDNTFS partition.
Sunday, 6 July 2008
Trials and tribulations as they say
Not sure if I mentioned the work done and time spent in front of the PC, but Gentoo copies have gone and now there is quite a snazzy uptodate OpenSUSE in their place! I ended up with back pain of course..
Then there has been the search for a better backup app than TI 9 (and 11 which is being returned) which only want to backup the Linux drive at very slow, full disk (298GB) only. No way or space!
I came across Paragon Drive Backup 9 Personal, a fairly new release, but I think they forgot to update the Recovery CD options.. their Bart PE plugin solution is not a solution! Its too complicated for the average guy to do, and it doesn't work. I spent days on it :( Their Recovery CD loads OK, BUT the Normal mode reaches a blue Paragon screen with nothing on it.. Failsafe mode works, but the mouse drive is from 1995 and only works for me if I wiggle it during all activities... laughable, but it came in useful when I tried another app ShadowProtect and ended up screwings Windows - finger trouble ;) - and restored a 4th July archive. had bought it by then btw.
Next on the list was the Lifehacker tip, Macrium Reflect Free. I downloaded it and managed to backup XP to the F partition on hdb, check the Bart PE Recovery CD worked - the Linux CD hangs at the firewire drive section - and then thunder stopped play, both for me and for my recording of the Williams sisters battling out at Wimbledon. Happy to say Venus won! I don't like the look of Serena, or perhaps its the name, or both.
Thats it for now.. looks like I'll end up with three Backup apps!
Then there has been the search for a better backup app than TI 9 (and 11 which is being returned) which only want to backup the Linux drive at very slow, full disk (298GB) only. No way or space!
I came across Paragon Drive Backup 9 Personal, a fairly new release, but I think they forgot to update the Recovery CD options.. their Bart PE plugin solution is not a solution! Its too complicated for the average guy to do, and it doesn't work. I spent days on it :( Their Recovery CD loads OK, BUT the Normal mode reaches a blue Paragon screen with nothing on it.. Failsafe mode works, but the mouse drive is from 1995 and only works for me if I wiggle it during all activities... laughable, but it came in useful when I tried another app ShadowProtect and ended up screwings Windows - finger trouble ;) - and restored a 4th July archive. had bought it by then btw.
Next on the list was the Lifehacker tip, Macrium Reflect Free. I downloaded it and managed to backup XP to the F partition on hdb, check the Bart PE Recovery CD worked - the Linux CD hangs at the firewire drive section - and then thunder stopped play, both for me and for my recording of the Williams sisters battling out at Wimbledon. Happy to say Venus won! I don't like the look of Serena, or perhaps its the name, or both.
Thats it for now.. looks like I'll end up with three Backup apps!
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