The 2GB of RAM on my MacBook Pro (max) is feeling like a room with a 5 foot ceiling. It also feels smaller when I have 7GB on my Mac Pro. Lightroom 2 (64-bit) gets over 4GB of memory for itself! Fast!
Technology
Ran to coffee shop for working WiFi, but they close at 8pm!
What are the chances the coffee shop WiFi router knows they close at 8pm? :-)
Is there an official name yet for someone that collects domain names?
- Downloading MP4 of Obama’s speech over HSDPA wireless modem.
- “8.3 of 104 MB (6.2 KB/sec) - 4 hours, 26 minutes remaining”. Hope it holds.
- “17.6 of 104MB (7.2 KB/sec)” holding better than expected, and getting faster.
- Time to hit the sack and hopefully get to watch it tomorrow.
Plan to plug iPod into TV here in London is thwarted by confusing SCART connector!
Living with a 3G Modem
I’ve mentioned that our “included Internet access” at our London Apartment is a 3G USB Modem (Huawei E220 to be precise). It’s been a long, long time since I’ve had to deal with modems. I honestly thought those days were behind me. The service is provided by 3. Short rant, who …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Living with a 3G Modem- Hello from London! Getting situated. Barely online via 3G USB modem. (ugh!)
- Bootstrapped my Mac onto this 3 HSDPA USB modem via my Parallels installation. Got it going, now trying to share it from MacBook Pro.
- Having a horrible time getting Internet Connection Sharing to work. Wont give a valid DHCP response it seems.
- Got it working. Had firewall set up really tight and was denying incoming DHCP requests from sharing clients.
- Infrastructure done: 3G HSDPA modem connected to Leopard, Leopard sharing that to private WiFi network for others. Whee! Sleep soon.
Scoring Gymnastics, Bring the Computers
Tammy and I have been watching a lot of the Beijing Olympics this year. Tammy is a huge gymnastics fan and we’ve been watching nearly all of the coverage this year. A few years ago gymnastics changed its scoring system to make it less subjective and the commentators, particularly …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Scoring Gymnastics, Bring the ComputersJust slapped a new 2TB Western Digital drive on my Mac Pro. HD video just eats up drive space.
iPhone App - SleepOver
I haven’t posted anything about the release of iPhone 2.0, but the approximately 20 applications that I’ve installed on my phone show that I’ve been pretty immersed in it. Developers are still figuring the platform out and there is some cool stuff, as well as some really lame …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: iPhone App - SleepOver