01.30.06

Why can’t I use all my iPod?

Posted in Mac OS X at 4:11 pm

Argh!

Grey screen of death again. It happens every time my 30G iPod with video gets close to full.

From panic.log: 

Mon Jan 30 15:53:55 2006
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002476F4): BlockAllocateContig: allocation overflow on "cuddlePod Two"
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
      Backtrace:
         0x00095718 0x00095C30 0x0002683C 0x002476F4 0x002471EC 0x00246120 0x00228B88 0x000FC160
         0x000F5738 0x0027D95C 0x0027D784 0x002AA304 0x000ABEB0 0x45787069
Proceeding back via exception chain:
   Exception state (sv=0x33722280)
      PC=0x90053AEC; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x0A1423A8; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x90B51D20; R1=0xF071DB20; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.4.0: Tue Jan  3 18:22:10 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.56.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC

How is it my iPod is tickling a kernel bug? WTF?

01.11.06

MBP(QPTWNE)

Posted in General at 2:20 pm

Mac Book Pro (Quite Possibly The Worst Name Ever).

I just coined an acronym for the new Intel Powerbooks.

01.09.06

I’m impressed with myself.

Posted in General at 2:09 pm

On vacation for two weeks, first day back and I’m all caught up on emails at 2:00 PM. It wasn’t a tremendous mountain, since most everyone else was on vacation for a week of my two weeks… but there was a time where I couldn’t even handle a day’s worth of email in a reasonable (read: less than months) amount of time.

01.05.06

Resistance is futile…

Posted in General at 3:36 pm

This article at Wired is just downright fascinating. Especially for me, a nerd with deaf parents.

This bit from the end of the article just show how Moore’s law, in some form applies to people, too.

My Bionic Quest for Boléro:

“My hearing is no longer limited by the physical circumstances of my body. While my friends’ ears will inevitably decline with age, mine will only get better.”

It’s just a matter of time before the risks of surgery get less and less, and the benefits are more worthwhile. How long before we’re in the “cyberpunk” future? Maybe we only have 15 years left.

P.S. No, I couldn’t resist the cliché title.

(Via Boing Boing.)

01.04.06

Camino 1.0 beta 2

Posted in Mac OS X at 2:07 am

I was vaguely interested, but didn’t go out to download it until I read this in the release notes:

Camino : Release Notes : Camino 1.0 beta 2:

“Camino now has built in SVG support.”

Boo-yah! I haven’t managed to get SVG working on any of the various Mac browsers I have until this one. Once Firefox turns it on by default, I’ll be ecstatic.

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)