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Memory

Despite my wish to order the new MacBook Pro, I know I will be saving up for the second generation model. Hopefully it would have the 64bit CPU and perhaps even virtualisation! But until then I have to make do with developing ecto on my Compaq Windows laptop. However, ever since I’ve migrated to Visual Studio 2005 it has been hitting the memory limit which was only 768MB. So a lot of disk swapping and waiting which did no good when I am in a coding session and in the ‘zone’, so to speak.

Therefore, I took the plunge last week and ordered a stick of 1GB memory from Memory Ten and it arrived today. After installing it, which took all of five minutes, bootup, launched VS2005, loaded the project, etc. I immediately saw that peak memory utilisation was just over 1GB. Comfortably under the 1.5GB total. Now no more disk swapping and VS2005 is actually very usable and enjoyable 😉 Eventually I think I’ll have to replace the other 512MB stick with a 1GB also to push the memory to the max. 2GB, but that will be in the future.

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Flip4Mac

Have you ever feel Windows Media Player for Mac sucks?

Have you ever gone to a web site with Windows Media file or stream and the playback sucks?

Well, no more. Download Flip4Mac and plays WMV and WMA files in QuickTime!

(Courtesy of Rosyna @ Unsanity)

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Plan foiled

So my career plan for taking it easy for a couple of years before getting back to consulting backfire today, as I have been promoted to manager. It is really just giving me the title for the job that I’ve been doing for the last year anyway. The very slight pay rise is nice but inconsequential. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to stay at this company for a little while longer.

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FUD on MacBook Pro price

So The Register has another FUD headline for the new MacBook Pro, "Intel Macs stay at non-Intel prices".

Yes, $2500 for the 1.83GHz version is expensive but is it really?

Look! The Acer’s TravelMate 8200 has similar spec and the same price!

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5 Years

Five years ago today I left London and landed at JFK in the freezing winter of New York City with one huge suit case and my laptop as my sole possessions in America. That was the start of my career in America as a software consultant, riding the tail end of the dot com boom. How time has flied in the intervening years. The dot com boom had burst, WTC had collapsed, and George W. Bush got elected the second time. And now I am married, have permanent residency, working as a permanent employee in New York City, and one huge suit case cannot hold even a small portion of our belongings.

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