For a while, I’ve had the family photos and a bunch of other files stored on an external hard drive and plugged into the USB port of our router, so that they could be accessed from any of the computers in the house. Once in a while I’d manually back up the drive to another [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2011’
Finally Upgrading to iOS 5 – Tips!
So why did I hold out so long before upgrading to iOS 5? That’s because the jailbreak was just released today. The main reason for holding out for the jailbreak was that the inability (even in iOS 5, sadly!) to silence notifications at certain hours of the day (night). Silencing the notifications required installing the [...]
Asus Eee PC 1000HE Dual Boot XP and Snow Leopard – Stalled!
Previously I was able to run my Asus Eee PC 1000HE as a “hackintosh” on Snow Leopard 10.6.0, 10.6.4, and 10.6.7. But I’ve always kept the hackintosh install on a bootable USB drive, as I didn’t want to mess with the original Windows XP install on the 160GB hard drive. I recently purchased a 180GB [...]
David Whiting: Friend or Foe to Bicycling?
For some time I’d been meaning to write about my views on David Whiting’s cycling columns in the Orange County Register. But BikingInLA beat me to it. So I’ll just share the comment I left on his blog: I agree with your assessment of David Whiting’s columns. I do think his heart is in the right [...]
Upgrade to Solid State Drives
For some time now I’ve wanted solid state drives (SSD) to replace my conventional hard drives (HD) in my portable computers for improved speed and battery life. Until recently the available SSD offerings with a decent capacity were a bit out of reach, but I was able to find two 180GB Corsair SSDs for about [...]