Al's WebLog

Category: Computers

  • Dell PE2950

    In the Feb 7th release of the driver for Dell’s PERC/4eDC I noted the compatibility with PE1950 and PE2950 servers, servers that don’t exists. But they do, May release… http://www.spec.org/cpu/results/res2006q1/cpu2000-20060219-05624.asc. How sad am I for noticing and looking it up 😉

  • its was just Dell being crap…

    It turns out that Apple have it sorted and that Dell just suck. http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp shows I am am on 1.4.2_09 and that the Dell applet doesn’t like me cos I am not on Windows. Arse. Ah well… XP on a MacBookPro is what I NEED for work then 😉

  • Mac Java

    So today I needed to use a Dell DAC4 “console” for the first time in anger. Its a simple enough thing, you SSH forward ports 443 and 5900 to your local machine, point the browser at https://localhost:whereever and off you go. This works fine… or did. You see, since I tested these things, Java 1.5/5…

  • Weekend update

    Quite why I am up at 6am to watch some cars drive round and round a track I don’t exactly know, but hey! An odd day yesterday, it also started to darn early but since it was light outside the children got up and thus I was woken, bah. Had to go into work in…

  • Apple cores

    Well, if you substitute MacMini for iBook in my post on Saturday, I was right about solo/duo. Damn I am good! Okay, so it was an obvious thing when you thought about it, but, I thought!

  • Apple rumors…

    I have been thinking. There is much talk about what Apple with do with the iBook, or should I say ‘MacBook’? There are a number of people that say it needs to hit the 999 USD price point for the educational market, then there are those that say it needs to be more powerful to…

  • New Apple stuff

    So, today saw Steve Jobs’ keynote at SF MacWorld. I didn’t expect iMacs, but they look cool. The FM remote thing for the iPod would be great, but you need a 5G/Nano for it, why? Bastards. Also in the bastard cat, the new MacBookPro… it looks lurvley, but get this. US price, 1999 USD. UK…

  • Tiger

    Well, I bought Tiger for my iBook (finally). The DVD was on my desk this morning. Sadly mu iBook doesn’t have a DVD drive, so… run with iPods! http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-122236.html

  • Airport WiFi

    So, I knew Singapore airport had “free wifi” so I tried it this morning. You have to switch your mobile phone to the STARHUB network and dial a number, they then SMS you a user ID and password. Its all free and it all works. What I didn’t expect though was free wifi at Colombo…

  • New York Update

    So yes, its Tuesday. Things are going well. New machines are in, old ones are nearly fixed (awaiting a fan and a disk) and I can see me being done in time, which is good. I am still not happy with the power cables int the rack, they are all 12foot long and I need…