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Archive for May, 2005
For the uninitiated, Spotlight is a feature in Mac Os X Tiger. It is a search function which goes beyond matching filenames. Now you can have cryptic filenames, yet still be able to find the documents or data you want on the harddisk.
Now, using gmail as storage media is not something new. We have gmailfs [...]
POWERPC stands for: Performance Optimization With Enhanced Risc Performance Computing.
GCC 4.0 is making a big hit. For me.
It compiles nicely and neatly on slackware-current. However, I wish Apple Computers Inc. fix their buggy gcc-4.0 with their 10.4.1 update.
Test runs will soon start.
gcc-4.0 will not compile with darwinports on Tiger. Didn’t really bother with it for now.
I knew there was something wrong with Tiger when my (loaned) PowerMac G5 refuesed to wake up from sleep. Had to pull the plug. It crashes on me after I did something yesterday. Can’t remember.
Safari needs some work as well. It doesn’t display images on my blog correctly. In addition to the PowerMac G5 sleep [...]
Am testing 2 Gbyte of DDR400 RAM in the PowerMac G5. Screenshot of the About This Mac shows the results:
Perfomance increase is unbeliavable. And you don’t hear the harddisk working hard at all. No more lag when switching between applications. Don’t need to close the applications. Just leave it there and get back to it [...]
petrol price UP 10 cents, diesel price UP 20 cents
Published May 4th, 2005 in Announcement and Annoyances. 0 CommentsEffective midnight, petrol price will go up 10 cent per liter and Diesel price will be incereased by 20 cents per liter.
Go and fill up your tank.
Ever wondered how your computer is connected with the rest of the world? Bulk of the traffics is carried by submarine cables. There are different kinds of cable used, most new one would use (dark) fibre optics. I won’t go there.
I am sure you remember the nationwide outage of streamyx last month. Well it wasn’t [...]
emergency lane
Published May 1st, 2005 in Annoyances, Heart Matters, On-Watch and Your Rights. 0 CommentsWhat would you do when you see someone drowning? How would you feel? Ok, lets say you can swim and there are some floats available there. Would you swim with the floats to get save the peson? Or would you just stand and watch and don’t do anything at all.
Recently there is an advertisment on [...]
