March 05, 2011

A Geeky Saturday

Posted by Scott at 08:49 PM

Good morning! Just finished my Saturday morning Step and abs class. Now I'm at Claire's piano lesson. 11:04am

Laughing: 12 Reasons It's Harder to be a Dad than a Mom 11:36am

Amazon Video on Demand link Took the family out to lunch at Café on the Oval and stopped at DFE on the way back to get Michelle and I some coffees. 1:23pm

Having Amazon send Cool It to our first floor TiVo. (and another greenie bursts a blood vessel...) 1:37pm

Was looking at the MacBook Air. So if I spend $1000 or more, I'll have a slower CPU and GPU than I have now in my two year old MacBook. I think I'd be better to just update my MacBook's hard disk to an SSD. That was one of the ideas I had planned to do for my MacBook when it was a couple of years old and the costs of SSD's came down. Swapping HD's on my generation of MacBook is trivial. The weight difference between the MacBook and the MacBook Air is not that important to me. 2:04pm

Updating one of my favorite nerd tools on my MacBook, VirtualBox. Version 4.0.4 recently came out. I continue to be amazed at the strides we've made in virtualization these past several years. 2:10pm

Looking at Splashtop. Much like the Google ChromeOS, it attempts to be one of those quick starting OS's for "people who spend all their time using web apps and services like Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox Google Docs and Gmail, adding a fast, safe and secure browser-centric environment to the traditional desktop-oriented environment". I might set up a VM of it to see what it's like and kick the tires a bit. 2:32pm

It doesn't look like Splashtop will run in a VM at the moment. It needs a real Windows PC and has an installer. Bleah! While the girls are heading out to Confession, the boys asked that I put on an episode of Dilbert. 2:52pm

Sick of RSS feeds that only give an excerpt? Try Full Text RSS Feed. 3:56pm

After dinner Timothy and I updated the Ubuntu Linux on my work laptop and then beefed up the Compiz+ support in the environment. It's like MacOS's Expose and Workspaces on steroids. Lots o' GUI eye candy. 6:46pm

Timothy wanted to followup on our earlier work with WebGL by turning the cube into a pyramid. I sketched out some of what would be needed but could tell the math was over his second grade head for now. Soon thereafter the kids watched a collection of Pixar short films that were showing on ABCFamily channel. Then I got the boys tucked in bed with their prayers. Tomorrow is an early morning as the girls serve at the 7am Mass. 8:47pm

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