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I was in a bit of a predicament for the past few months. I live in DC and the girlfriend lives in Richmond. Being a somewhat busy dude (60 hours a week the usual) I need my internet. Work provided me a AT&T ExpressCard GT Ultra which is worthless. I even purchased a cradlepoint in hopes that the card just sucked in Linux and Mac. Nope, it sucks with everything. My requirements for broadband were simple, no install wait and quick enough to stream a webex session while checking email. iPhone tethering was working, but I needed something more standard and supportable. Comcast and DSL were worthless as they wanted contracts and long lead times for install. Clearwire and Sprint 4g were my options to weigh out: ...

One of my favorite features with GNOME/KDE is the show desktop button. Expose is great, but I am always clicking around on the dock. This morning the RSS feeds answered my greivance and provided this tip from MacOSX Hints: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20091109075034143 I wrapped the script and put an icon to the file. Here is the file if you’d like to download it for 10.5: Show Desktop.app

Real quick review of the desktop in pro’s and con’s Pro’s Installer is pretty and well laid out Theme extends across all 3 supported desktops (lxde, KDE, and GNOME) Administration utilities use native toolkits for each platform unlike YaST from SuSE Con’s Why wouldn’t you use network-manager rather than your cheesy control center tool I first used in Mandrake 6.1 or 7? The default KDM theme reminds me of the old Solaris days, doesn’t match the feel of the desktop GTK theme seems like a cut-n-paste from QT side and it isn’t pretty Beagle search rather than Tracker? Not starting a mono war here, but beagle is NO where near feature filled Seems to me that they took the bits and pieces from around the world and bundled it together. Problem is the bits they took were from the crappy bucket. Mandriva, I loved you back during the Red Hat vs. Mandrake days were you pushed the technology and ease of use for Linux. Now you just seem washed up.

Below is an excerpt from an email exchange between Mom and I. Love that lady ———- I am alive and my fever is stabilizing. I figured out my thermometer was broke today so I set up a controlled experiment in which I figured out the ratio and then updated my spreadsheet. I can graph my getting better in Excel :) All from my iPhone I might add. Take that technology :) ...

I was up answering emails last night well into the night and before turning in I upgraded to Vmware Fusion 3. Thought I would pro’s and con’s it here for the group: Spiffy: Runs MUCH better on Snow Leopard and utilizes 64bit fully. Memory utilization on my macpro was much better than with 2 Ran a few games (HL, Quake3, DoD) and they seem to have less graphic artifacts. I can’t think of a game I play that isn’t native or run in WINE, but a neat option. I see this as a big boom for those doing 3d modeling and the software not able to run any other way. Also supports Aero and Windows 7 flip. I usually turn these off by default, but someone must like them. VNC! I missed this feature most from Workstation on Linux. You can make a vncserver so that when you start your VM you can then hookup @ the BIOS level from another machine. Great for hosting a VM as a sudo-server I haven’t had a chance to test, but the migration tool looks to be a killer option for those moving from Windows machines. It works over a network and requires a little program install on your windows machines. I am wondering if this is based on P2V they offer for Enterprise work. I wonder how many of these little converter apps will be finding their way to corporate images :) The end result being install a little program, start the mac, and convert your whole machine to a VM with your apps and settings. Lame: ...