MacBook Pro (Unibody)
Saturday, January 31st, 2009 |Mine, mine, mine, mine…..
Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Another useful iPhone App
Saturday, January 31st, 2009 |Just found another iPhone App which is useful – that is if one is addicted to FaceBook.
So install the FaceBook App and you will be able to tell you friends what you’re doing while on the road (if that is you wish).
Or even upload photos….
XEN with loopback devices
Monday, January 26th, 2009 |One of the most annoying things with XEN and loopback devices is that at some point you will run out of them. Especially if you like me have a setup with more than 15 virtual servers (not all of them are running at the same time).
I just ran into “Error: Device 5632 (vdb) coulnt not be connected. losetup $lo flags $loopdev $file”, which after some digging means that there are no free loopback devices.
The nice thing is that there is a way to solve it, instead of having;
In your DomU replace
disk=[ ..., 'file:/..../file.iso...
with
disk=[ ..., 'tap:aio:/..../file.iso...
Then you DomU should start just fine.
Read more here.
iPhone and vCards
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 |It’s almost there, that is if you can live without sending vCards via SMS.
Read this review on the AppleBlog.
Still freaking annoying that Apple cannot figure out how to do this.
New Notebook….
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 |After almost 3 years, I have ordered a new Notebook, my Macbook Pro (CD 2GHz) is not happy running Lightroom2, PhotoShop, Groupwise8, Groupwise Messenger, Adium, Thunderbird 3, and Firefox at the same time…. and it does not help if I switch Lightroom2 and PhotoShop with VMware Fusion…..
In about 4 weeks (I hope) I should be the proud owner of a Macbook Pro Late 2008 (C2D 2.8GHz) which should be able to keep me entertained for another 3 years…..
technorati tags: Macbook Pro
Computer Speakers…..
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 |There are a few things I really do not like, some of them does not have to do with computers, and some of them does.
As a notebook use, with a frequent use of a external monitor, I’ve gotten around to live with the mess of cables on my desk, but on I cannot live with the scratch, boom noise when I plugin my external speakers (5 year old 2.1 system, which is working just fine – just ask the neighbors).
This means that I’ve been hunting high and low for some speakers which would work via either fiber (bloody expensive), or USB (also not cheap – until now – that is I’ve missed out on some things).
I was in the local MacShop yesterday to order a new Macbook Pro (more about that later), and asked if they knew of any USB speakers which where 1) ok’ish 2) working with OSX. And they pointed me in the direction of Logitech Z-5, but after some research I figured out that they do not come with a power supply (damn). They also mentioned Logitech Z-10 which officially are only supported with Microsoft Windows – dooh…
Well it turns out that the only thing which officially does not work with OSX is the info display on the right speaker (no you know – it’s the right one, and no it’s not mentioned in the documentation).
After a bit of research, I found a tool (LogitechLCDTool) which can show some information on the display, and the next step was to figure out how to switch from lineout to USB Audio…. AppleScript here we come.
If found this blog entry, which have a script which works, but as I do not need to switch back to lineout (disconnecting the speakers is enough), I modified the script to:
– snip –
tell application “/Applications/LogitechLCDTool.app” to activate
tell application “System Preferences”
activate
set current pane to pane “com.apple.preference.sound”
end tell
tell application “System Events”
tell application process “System Preferences”
tell tab group 1 of window “Sound”
click radio button “Output”
set selected of row 2 of table 1 of scroll area 1 to true
set deviceselected to “Z-10 USB Speaker”
end tell
end tell
end tell
tell application “System Preferences” to quit
– snip —
As you can see I also launch ‘LogitechLCDTool’ – less clicking around….
Just a small thing, due to some issues with OSX 10.5.x and iTunes 8.x you should have a look here and here
But back to the speakers them self, well as everyone says; they are good, the bad thing is the touch panel which is kind of crap… do a google and find a review or two….
technorati tags: USB speakers, Logitech Z-10, LogitechLCDTool
Missing …..
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 |Most if not all of the photos in the posts are gone.. No I did not loose them, well kind of – on purpose…
After 5 years I felt that I needed some new hardware for my server, and one of the things I decided was to move all my photos to smugmug, where they for a very small amount (current $ € exchange rate is on my side) host my photos (have a look).
Therefor all links to photos are in the posts, but the photos does no longer exist (still kind of).
But, I’m now a happy man, current OS (CentOS 5.2), some new hardware, and I don’t have to care about my server for another 5 years.
technorati tags: hardware, CentOS 5.2