Nov 10 2007
O2 EDGE network coverage
With the iPhone being launched at 6:02pm yesterday (and having had a play with one in a shop today – it’s definitely shiny, it’s probably worth £70 on top of the iPod Touchhobblebuild the phone with.
Oct 31 2007
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard – The good and the bad
(Incidentally, how do you write that? “Mac OS X.5” is just wrong, whilst “Mac OS 10.5” isn’t as aesthetically pleasing… oh well, I guess it fits into our multiply-redundant world of “PIN numbers”, “tuna fish”, and “software programs” 🙂
Anyway, on to my initial thoughts on Leopard!
Oct 31 2007
And so the last bastions begin to fall…
The excellent Phoronix have a series of benchmarks of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars on Linux and on Vista… and, using a 512Mb ATI Radeon HD 2900XT with the latest drivers for each, the exact same machine managed a frame rate just over 19% higher on Linux than on Vista!
Oct 18 2007
Cannonball Run
Just incredible – the story of the attempt to cross the United States of America by car in less than 32 hours 7 minutes…
Read the personal account at www.wired.com.
Aug 24 2007
Is the Mac Mini’s firmware broken?
I’ve just bought a new (2GHz Core2 Duo 😉 ) Mac Mini to run as a Media Centre hooked up to my (720p) projector.
One problem I’ve encountered here is that the Mac tries to determine the optimal resolution for the connected display (via I
This, however, is only Apple’s fault insomuch as Mac OS gives very little control over the login screen, and doesn’t allow the resolution to be manually specified.
The problems, though, really show up when trying to install Vista via Bootcamp…
Aug 7 2007
Reduced updates
Currently, the server hosting this blog (a 300MHz Silicon Graphics O2 with two SCSI discs) is sitting on a shelf in my bedroom, where it’s been housed since I moved house in December. This’d be fine, except the discs are so damned noisy! So basically, for the past 8 or 8 months, the server’s only been switched on whilst I’m not there (and even then, only when I remember to turn it on before leaving) and so there have been long outages, and few updates.
The good news is that, as of tomorrow, this should all be a thing of the past: The electrician is coming back, and is fitting the power sockets, network sockets, and a light under my stairs, so that I can finally move all of the computers into here, where they can run all day long without disturbing anyone!
Jul 2 2007
Silent and deadly
It looks as if the roadworks at the top-end of Milton Road are finally complete… the net result seeming to be that where previously there was a lane for traffic headed for Cowley Road, the Business Park, and the Park and Ride and a lane for heading into town, there is instead now but a single lane for all of this traffic. The dual-carriageway to the Science Park seems as unused as ever (I’ve never seen more than three vehicles between both lanes) – but now the queues down that single lane which carry all of the other traffic are enormous. By 10am each day, the queues go right back to the roundabout, so goodness only knows how bad it must be at 9am.
More to the point, it’s downright dangerous: this insane road layout encourages, almost ensures, that people will drive straight down the (empty) left-most Science Park lane, and then try to cut back into the traffic stream between two sets of lights. I guarantee that this will cause an accident sooner rather than later.
Nov 10 2007
iCrystal iBall gazing with the iPhone
So, the iPhone has launched in the UK… to a somewhat mixed reaction.
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