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iPhone broken

October 24, 2009 Posted by mitch | apple | 0 Comments

well... its been a really long time... but now, my iPhone has broken. I don't really feel to bad about it... it was a First Gen 4GB model... and I've been wanting an Android based phone for the better part of a year now. So, if anything I'm a bit upset that it broke a week to early. As the Motorola Cliq isn't being released to the public until November 2nd. I've been back and forth over what phone I should get, and I've decided on the Cliq, mostly because its cheap... I've never used a phone with a full keyboard, so I'll be using that as a comparison too... I will probably Root the phone and put the normal android build on it too... instead of the Motoblur interface, because, if you didn't know, I'm not big into the social networking sites... I avoid them actually. Anyway... come next week I'll let you know how it works out.

iPhone updates

July 24, 2008 Posted by mitch | apple | 0 Comments

The word press app for the iPhone is pretty cool. I just might get more blog posts now.

Not switching to MacBook Pro

April 13, 2008 Posted by mitch | apple | 0 Comments

Since getting the MacBook Pro from my boss, I've had some time to play with it. As it turns out, I still only like to use it as much as I like to use my wife's laptop, mostly just for checking email and web browsing. It just seems slower than my Lenovo, even with its faster procs and same amount of ram... to test I got it dual booting Ubuntu, but even that seems slow. All that I could deal with, however, I really don't like the keyboard. Or rather the lack of an insert, and a delete and back space keys. Page Up and Page Down also seem to be missing. These keys I use alot, and they're all very accessible on my Lenovo. So, I've decided, I won't be fully switching from my Lenovo as much as my boss wants me to. The biggest reason so far that I could have used the mac was more for the 1Gb nic it has in it. At work I've had to do some testing of the network and I have some scripts and other applications that can fully maximize the throughput of the network, and my current hardware peaks at 100Mbit so, I didn't see some problems that others in the building were experiencing because of it. I had the choice to buy a laptop with a 1Gb nic in it when I bought this, it would have cost me more, but to be honest, it was a laptop, when would I EVER actually be able to utilize a gigabit nic. Well... saving to or reading from the hard drive its impossible... but reading and writing straight from ram, you can actually get around to filling a gigabit pipe. So, I have a reason to switch, I just don't think I will be. If anything it will give me a reason to buy a new Thinkpad T61 :)

to dual boot my mac or not

April 7, 2008 Posted by mitch | apple, linux, technology | 0 Comments

Well, I've had the macbook pro for a couple weeks now, and while I personally don't have a problem with Mac OS X... its just not Linux. I like mac fine and all... When I'm using it however... I miss my ubuntu laptop. Browsing the web and doing email works just fine on the mac... also I generally would prefer the mac when doing movie stuff, however it was a pita to get xvid working. (it only took me 20 minutes or so, but that was still way to long, my "aptitude install gstreamer-*" works much nicer) And ports on the mac... what a joke, its an even bigger pita. It attempts to be like linux's package managers, however, you have to install all the xcode tools before you can even run those, and that took 45 minutes or so. Over all... the Mac interface is definately nice, thats not my complaint, its just I like my open source tools, and the mac is just to proprietary for me to really work on. So.. I believe I will be repartitioning this mac... or maybe, i'll try out the partition resizer built in... don't really care if I corrupt the data on it... By this time tomorrow hopefully, I'll be abe to dual boot the latest ubuntu 8.04 (yes, i know currently still beta)

I now have a powerbook!!

December 16, 2005 Posted by mitch | apple | 0 Comments

With some changes at work, I've been given a powerbook G4 17" :) man is it nice. So far I love it. Just going through customizing it a bit. Changing the themes and so forth... I had to reinstall it as well, since I will be loading Linux on it to dual boot. figure its got a 111GB hard drive... why not? :) Anyway, more to come, screen shots 'n all...