May 30th 2008
According to the specs, my Palm Treo has a built-in GPS as part of the phone package. I was truly annoyed to find out that there’s no way to make use of that capability.
Yes, GPS vendors should be scared by iPhone. But I expect they’re going to get killed anyway by generic cell phones and Palm Treo-like devices. They generally have the mechanism built-in as part of the 911 call response mechanism.
May 16th 2008
I (think I) have just finished upgrading my system to OS X 10.5. I’m hesitant to declare it a success because I haven’t tried everything yet, though I’ve been reading e-mail and doing most ‘normal’ things. Apple made it difficult, but not impossible, thank goodness.
According to the documentation, all you do to move from 10.4 to 10.5 is an ‘upgrade.’ Perhaps this is true for someone, but evidently not for foolish people like myself who value reliability enough to RAID the system volume. Continue Reading »
May 15th 2008
I’m trying to upgrade to Leopard (or is it Blotched Tabby? I can never keep their kitty cats straight) a.k.a. OS-X 10.5.
When I first got my Mac Pro, I looked at the lovely array of hard drive bays and said, “RAID!”
So I decided to RAID my system drives. Now I’m trying to un-RAID them and use Time Machine, and OS-X is being a pain about it. Actually, the RAID system has been a pain all along (I wrote a bit about this before). Continue Reading »
May 5th 2008
As noted earlier, I’m now using SSL to secure parts of my site. I used to have arrangements like that at Visi.com, my old ISP, but I’m making better use of it with WordPress and such.