The Mono project finally makes some great progress towards a native PowerPC build. Can’t wait for it to be more completed so I can code C#/.NET on my PowerBook.
iBook and water don't mix well
On Thursday, Leah spilled some water onto her 3 years old iBook. After a panic phone call to me and followed my instruction on drying out her iBook and letting it stand for a couple of hours, it turned out that it is still fully functional with the exception of the LCD backlight.
She took it to the Apple Store in SoHo and the ‘genius’ in the genius bar told her that it will cost either $300, $400, or $800 to fix, depending which component needs replacing. Of course we didn’t have it fix.
So now, after transferring her Entourage database, documents, and musics to my TiBook, we are now sharing my computer instead. We are still contemplating getting a LCD monitor and turn the iBook into a desktop instead. We’ll see…
Batten down the hatches
For those visitor who uses OS X, I would advise everyone to read this Security Advisory and take the necessary workarounds to close the security hole.
Joy of Unix and Fink
So I got bored enough yesterday to install Fink and FinkCommander. These will allow me to install Mono and let me do C# on my TiBook.
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Safe Jacking?
“Jack Sharing” seems to have became main stream as Wired News ran a story about it, Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod. Personally I have not seen this happen in my Tri-State area but let’s face it, I don’t have spare time during the day to have leisurely walk. And there is something personal about sharing your musical taste to a ‘real’ stranger. Sharing over the net is pretty annoymous, most of the time you just download the track you want and that’s it. But with “jack sharing”, you are standing right there in front of the stranger while sampling her/his music. Not sure I like that. Now, if I were approached by a beatiful blonde woman with a iPod to “jack share”, things may be different 😉 Somehow I don’t see that happening in Manhattan but I will keep my fingers crossed and my eyes peeled…
Lost in Colonisation 