Archive for April, 2005

powerbook

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

So Mac OS X Tiger has been released and all, but why does the powerbook page on store.apple.com still say it comes with Panther and iLife ‘05? Does it really still not ship with Tiger? C’mon apple, get with it. I guess either way, I’m just gonna order on Monday.
On a side note, my friend […]

Sometimes you just gotta pay

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

It’s amazing how much faster a Terminal Server connection is over VNC. Sure VNC is cross platform or whatever, but the difference in performance is too much to ignore.
But then again, I guess Citrix or whoever has had paid developers working on it for a long time…
Fortunately, vnc from an X server works pretty […]

Remote desktop to a w2k3 machine through SSH

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

I’m on an XP client and trying to connect to a remote W2k3 server through an ssh gateway.

Set up SSH so that a local port (not 3389) is forwarded to 3389 on the server.
Run the remote desktop client from the command line. “mstsc /v:localhost:[forwarded_port] /console”

The /console argument lets you connect without having a terminal services […]

Interesting twist

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

First saw this on the Mainichi paper, there seems to be a discrepancy between how the FM-level talks were reported in Japan and by Xinhua. The xinhua page says:
Nobutaka said Japan’s invasion into China in modern history brought great damage to the Chinese people. The Japanese side feels deep regret for that and once again […]

Damn Japanese Right-wing loonies

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

More random attacks against random Chinese-related targets in Japan. Incidents of BB-pellets shot at windows of Japanese language schools for Chinese exchange students in the middle of the night. What the hell are they thinking?

My first iTunes purchase.

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Got Itzhak Perlman’s performance of Sarsate and Paganini pieces. This whole iTunes thing is dangerously easy.
It still seems like a better deal to go the discount music store and get cheap cd’s and import them as apple lossless. That’s not to say 128kbps AAC doesn’t pretty damn good.

To my friends in China

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

I would like to express my dismay in regards to the violence in your protests. I fully believe you have a right to protest, and I agree with your cause (heck I’d march with you if I felt the issue was being dealt with reasonably), but I am dismayed because your actions are not helping […]

Nikon D70s

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Looks like Nikon might update their D70. Though from what I read, a leaked manual indicates only a minor upgrade, still I guess its worth waiting for. According to PC watch, its supposed to be announced on 4/20.

Healthy Super!

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

My dinner tonight: Brown rice with Nattou. A side of enoki miso soup. A few edamame for finishers.
Should balance out that huge burger I had for lunch.
Yay for Nattou! (wikipedia)

Craigslist continues to rock

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

Sold my barely used PDA for 500 bucks. Sold most of the parts for my extra PC. Cash transactions are convenient, yet annoying.
Workstation 5 rocks as well.