I don’t know how I ended up at this review site, but I was less surprised by the fact the unit they were discussing was so shamelessly ripping off the iPod (right down to the headphones), but rather the reviewer actually liked it. Were they wearing those beer glasses Bart Simpson tried on?
Just saw the Singapore preview screening of James Cameron’s Avatar. Its now 1am (hence the timestamp of this post showing Thursday) and I have to get up early in the morning so I’ll be brief, but my initial impression can be summarised as: whoa.
Given I do most of my blogging on my retro MacBook Pro, I decided to finally cave in and take advantage of the 30 day free trial of MarsEdit by Red Sweater software for Mac OS X. In an electronic nutshell, it didn’t meet my needs but I could see how it would be useful for most people.
Remember a few days ago I finally caved into TWiT pressure and got an Audible account? Well I finished my first book already and just posted my first review! I think a new addiction may be brewing.
Hehe Safari 4.0.4… I suppose if it doesn’t download properly you get a 404 error? HA!
Moving on, I just finished downloading the new Safari 4.0.4 release. Reviewed in one sentence: its one slick, fast browser. As I said on MacRumors though (and was promptly ignored) there’s still one huge reason why I can’t use it.
When I finally got around to installing the new VMware Fusion 3.0 update I downloaded yesterday I expected to get a slight performance improvement for my FreeBSD guests, but not as much as I would have got had I been running a Windows guest. The VMware Mac team have made it clear in their advertising they consider Fusion to be a product to run Windows on your Mac, and while other operating systems such as FreeBSD and Linux are supported, they’re not a priority. I’m really pleased and relieved to say I was wrong!
The Twitter client episode!
Scaring people who think I’m a chick (ha!); late Friday night train journeys; nostalgia for 2007 Twitterland with Twitterrific; TwitterFon inserting advertisements; moving over to Tweetie on the iTelephone; obsessively using the huge but efficient TweetDeck; and the spectacular cost of mobile phone company text messages!
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The robusta coffee and FireWire drive episode!
Having delusions of effectiveness; Burnt tongues; differences between robusta and arabica coffee; lack of FireWire ports on the new MacBook; instant coffee crap; the teachers pet phenomena; high school library studying adventures in 2004; Wordpress mistaking m3u for mp3 in enclosures; too many darned files; FireWire 800 versus FireWire 400 versus USB 2.0; review of the Western Digital My Passport Studio FireWire external notebook drive and a heavy bag of bubble wrap!
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The super dark sky no cohesion episode!
ACT ONE: Show reminiscing, exponential curves in the morning, This is Why I’m Hot, Wikipedia excesses, getting Snitters, interconnected crap, Compton, Anglosphere rivalry, pavlova and trifle.
ACT TWO: Yuletide and Christmas coming, family shopping always the hardest, the Ducati USB thumb drive, 9-11 conspiracy theorists heckle Bill Maher, YouTube reviews, The Google, locked doors, senility, Nokia e61i, iPhones, Casey Stoner, Elke playing Neopets, great nerdy insult, grand pianos on lanyards, impromptu Starbucks thermos review, Costa Coffee in the UK, Singapore Post.
ACT THREE: Singapore PrimaDeli food poisoning scandal, the Ministry of Health is MOH, unfortunate cake ingredient lists.
ACT FOUR: Cheap bulbs in lava lamps, music review of Ska Cubano, Ay Caramba and Istanbul is Constantinople, Last.fm account, losing music in iTunes.
ACT FIVE: Alien DJs, music is the soundtrack to your life, work sucks time (no, really?), floods in Singapore, storms closest to snow we can get here, Dave Wares on tudor houses, and crazy dead lifts.
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After a year or so of using FreeBSD I decided today to take another look at the operating system I learned UNIX on from the beginning: NetBSD (well actually it was Red Hat Linux 5, but I never left X!). I admit the way I learn things is to be focused on one specific programme, language or OS and hack away for a week rather than trying to be vague and learning many things at once not that well and not in much detail, and therefore not making much more than token advances in understanding. See how I slipped my critique about my university studies there? ;).
Reading back some of my previous posts I’m not entirely sure why I switched completely to FreeBSD back at the beginning of last year. I think part of the decision stemmed from VMware’s official support of FreeBSD and the fact that more people were using it, so I figured it was a better boat to be floating in. I’ve been using a lot of boat analogies lately, I’m becoming a bit washed up. Get it? Aha. RATHOLE!
Having used NetBSD though for a few hours I’ve remembered what I love about it:
That said though, I’m not giving up on FreeBSD, I think there’s definitely room for both. The default addition of portsnap and jail abilities (and coloured file listings!) are still very compelling, and the support for it in third party applications and drivers is certainly stronger. I think it will come down to a machine by machine choice for now.
I think it’s safe to say I’m a *BSD enthusiast, I am a happy user of Mac OS X, I have a passing interest in GNU/Linux and Solaris, and I have a healthy distaste for Windows and System 7 ;).
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