Category Archives: PC

5% of Nothing

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Lloyd

Makes me laugh and cry a little.
This alert is likely meant to warn that a whole lot of data is being added, modified or deleted as part of a sync. It’s an “oh crap, likely either you are doing some … Continue reading →

Also posted in Mac, Software Development | Tagged Alert Box, Apple, Apple Mac, Aza Raskin, Consumer Software, Daniel Jalkut, Design Bugs, Interface Design, iPhone, iPhone 3.0, iTunes, iTunes 8.2, Mac OS X, Mac Sync, QA, Software, Software Design, Software Development, Sync Alert, Synchronization, UI | 2 Comments

Mac OS X Snow Leopard, a Major Bug Fix Release

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Lloyd

I’m looking forward to the release of the next version of Mac OS X, version 10.6 Snow Leopard this September. As a Software Quality Assurance (QA) practitioner, I find it particularly interesting that this major release is basically a bug … Continue reading →

Also posted in Mac, Testing | Tagged Mac, Mac OS X, microsoft windows, QA, Software Development, software experience, Software Performace, Testing, UI, Windows 7, windows vista | 3 Comments

Apple “Tax”, Being Able to Get Things Done

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Lloyd

Is buying computers a strange game of screen size and hardware numbers? Or is it about looking for a solution in hardware and software that helps you get things done?
I’ve given up waiting for the next Vista update to finally … Continue reading →

Also posted in Computing, Consuming | Tagged Apple, Dell Desktop, Lenovo Laptop, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Vista, WIndows XP | 5 Comments

Attack of the Case Sensitive Filesystem

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Lloyd

Case sensitive file systems should be retired.
They allow us to do stupid things, mostly in error, but sometimes because we are too smart for our own good. There is no good reason for their (continued) existence.
I imagine that in the … Continue reading →

Also posted in Computing, Mac | Tagged case insensitive, case preserving, case sensitive, Ext2, Ext3, file system, HFS+, Mac, Mac OS Extended, Mac OS X, subversion | 13 Comments

Walt Mossberg Wrote the Safe Article About Ubuntu, “I still advise mainstream, nontechnical users to avoid Linux”

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Lloyd

Walt Mossberg, you are one of my favorite technology reporters, and so I’m particularly disappointed by your article
“Linux’s Free System Is Now Easier to Use, But Not for Everyone“.
My first disappointment is the timing of the article. September 27th Ubuntu … Continue reading →

Also posted in Computing, Linux, Ubuntu | Tagged Consuming, Dell Dimension E520, Linux, Mac OS X, MacOS, microsoft windows, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux, windows vista | 47 Comments

“Fan error” Blown Away

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Lloyd

I’m writing this email on my purring ThinkPad T42p with its new fan. Yes!

Also posted in Consuming | Tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows | 64 Comments

“Fan error”

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Lloyd

My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!

Also posted in Victoria | Tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, Linux, microsoft windows, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows | 18 Comments

Parakey?

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Lloyd

No, not talking butter.
Parakey: a service, a product, a platform to bring life to the web by Firefox wonderboys? A “Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do”? IEEE Spectrum article

Also posted in Collaborating, Communicating, Community, Computing, Firefox, Open Source, Web | 1 Comment

Every hard drive will fail

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Lloyd

The hard drive is a computer’s long term memory. It keeps all of the applications and your work and play on the computer.
It is also the mechanical part of the computer, and the part most likely to fail. Some fail … Continue reading →

Also posted in Personal | 1 Comment

Clean hard drive

Posted on June 23, 2006 by Lloyd

I replaced the hard drive in my laptop because the old one of 60 GB was full. It was mostly full of vmware images for testing Flock and various build environments of Flock.

The new hard drive is 100 GB.

I like … Continue reading →

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