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Comment on iCloud Syncing by Luis

Luis — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:23:15 +0000

A great innovation from Apple!!! or as I like to call it Dropbox that has been done to death, better and with greater multi-OS support. I like many Apple products but this to me is marketing machine at it’s best. Dropbox is the key for me.

Comment on MacBook Pro dual hard drives (SSD + 7200 RPM) by Ilhan

Ilhan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:33:33 +0000

The only issue with this is the face that the optical drive’s SATA interface doesn’t support the sudden-motion-sensor that safely stops the hard drive’s needle when it senses a jolt, or shock. So you’re much more likely to destroy your drive by accidentally bumping your laptop somewhere.

Comment on Lost a drive in ZFS by Jono

Jono — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:11:10 +0000

Turns out one of my SATA cables had wiggled loose. After reconnecting the drive and running a scrub all is well.

Comment on Quad Core MacBook Pro Released by Jono

Jono — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:59:54 +0000

How about I buy one in Portland next week and don’t pay sales tax

Comment on Quad Core MacBook Pro Released by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:31:22 +0000

Hurry up and buy and bring it with you this weekend!

Comment on National Ignition Facility by Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:59:19 +0000

The picture you have is of a space based geo-synched orbited laser above north america. It pulses 192 independently targeted coherent lasers through lenses and mirrors at incoming missles. It can do this every 5 to 8 seconds repeatedly. Do the math. Over 1000 missles a minute. Its powered by a plutonium pellet which will last a long time. It was partially built by Raytheon IDS systems in Tewksbury, Ma and shipped to Lawerence Livermore Labs in 2009. It arrived at Cape Canaveral in 2010. It launched into space november 22, 2010. Thank you Ronald Reagan, and the mighty atlas 4 rocket.

Comment on MacBook Pro dual hard drives (SSD + 7200 RPM) by Jono

Jono — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:29:46 +0000

Oh yeah. Huge performance increase by having the OS and apps on the SSD. I’ve had an SSD as the boot drive every since I bought my 13″ MBP. After using an SSD I find it hard to go back. Though I don’t often reboot, it will boot up much faster (maybe 20 seconds or so). But probably the biggest thing I notice is that apps open instantly and the system just feels very responsive. As a developer I don’t want any latency when I’m building or updating files.

I was using just an 80 GB SSD for the longest time but was constantly running low on space. So I figured why not throw a 500 GB drive in. I can count the times I’ve used the optical drive on one hand.

Comment on MacBook Pro dual hard drives (SSD + 7200 RPM) by Luis

Luis — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:21:38 +0000

Interesting post. Did you see any significant performance increase on the mac by changing the OS and apps to the SSD?

Comment on Coffee Coffee Coffee by Jono

Jono — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:45:52 +0000

I haven’t been to Vancouver in years. 49th Parallel is up there though.

http://49thparallelroasters.com/

Comment on Coffee Coffee Coffee by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:42:21 +0000

How about a review of Vancouver area coffee shops?