March 05, 2011
A Geeky Saturday
Good morning! Just finished my Saturday morning Step and abs class. Now I'm at Claire's piano lesson.
Laughing: 12 Reasons It's Harder to be a Dad than a Mom
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.
Having Amazon send Cool It to our first floor TiVo. (and another greenie bursts a blood vessel...)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
