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I just upgraded to 10.3.8 and Apple has managed to fuck up it up for the second time. On my Powerbook G4 867 12" the fan now runs constantly. This is the second time a software update has done this. But this time it’s worse, now it’s on constantly, not just when the computer is a little hot. This is going to drive me nuts, so I’ll probably try to replace the kext driver for the fans later on. That was the way to do it the last time. So if your running a Powerbook G4 12" (first model) wait a bit if you don’t want to listen to a constant breeze…

IBM is getting to be an even cooler company. By embracing Open Source IBM changed my view of the company, and now they have given free access to 500 patents. Rock on! This is a statement from one of the biggest patent holders in the world. Software patents is bad for you.

Back in 1982 I used to work for Apple answering Apple II support questions by phone. A couple of times people would call and ask questions about the Macintosh. This was two years before it was released! I guess Apples confidentiality is a lot better today. First Mac rumor on the internet.

I’ve been trying out the program RSyncX for doing backup of mail and web documents from one of my servers. The program can copy between folders on the same machine, or to or from any machine on the net. But I had some problems getting it to work. When using Quck RsyncX Script Generator I got an error, “rsyncx –showtogo unknown option” So I had to to add --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync to the generated command line to get it to work. I’ll continue trying it out tomorrow, looks like a powerful tool.

One thing that mystifies me is the way car companies implement electric cars. So here you have a car that has a limited range. So when the batteries are depleted, you’re supposed to stop for several hours and recharge them? Why? There is already an infrastructure (gas stations) that would be able to handle the recharging. When your battery is about to go empty, you stop at a recharging station (gas station) and exchange to a freshly recharged battery. Make the cells in a box that’s exchangeable. What you pay for is the recharging of batteries, and you pay a little extra for using the battery. This covers the cost of replacing used up batteries for the charging station. Of course, they all have to agree to use the same size for the batteries and to make a way of getting the battery changing done automatically. But if you can put a man on the moon, surely you could make this work? Maybe I’m missing something. And another way of making electric cars popular? Try performance. It’s effortless to make electric vehicles accelerate like hell. Make a cheap, nice looking and fast accelerating electric vehicle tailored for young people. Like the Ford Mustang used to do. If your ass is kicked at the stoplight by an electric car, you may consider one the next time you buy a car. Especially if you don’t have to stop and wait for recharging.

If your interested in learning how to color correct images in Photoshop and learn how color management works, this is the book. Photoshop Color Correction by Michael Kieran is an excellent book about all these subjects. It includes an example cd, and he goes through several examples on how to create exceptional looking images without color casts and other problems. He also shows how to set the black and white points of an image, how to make all adjustments using curves and a lot of tricks on how to fix a seemingly impossible image with modified profiles. ...

So they decided to vote in the nitwit again. There’s a famous picture by Diane Arbus of a young man taken in 1967 with “Bomb Hanoi” buttons proudly on his chest. It was the first thing that popped in to my head when I saw that Bush probably will win.

So I upgraded my internet connection to 100mbit/sec. This is something that I would have thought that I would do in three to four years, but it’s a reality now. All I had to do was to enable it on my admin page at my ISP (and also get a bigger bill next month!) and ten minutes later after a reboot of my firewall, I was up and running. This is the way to do it! And this on a sunday! Lovely. ...

My friend Martin once gave me a special edition of Apples Newton. It was transparent so you could see all the internal stuff. Very cool. I managed to drop it, unfortunately, so I got to see all the internals first hand :( Wish I still had it. To this day I have still not seen any PDA with the same features that the Newton had. For one thing, how come they still don’t have an auto correct feature in the drawing programs? If you drew a circle on the Newton, it automatically corrected it to make it into a real circle. No bitmapped image but vectorized. Perfect for people like me who couldn’t draw a straight line at gunpoint. ...

I saw a bump in CPU usage on my server and had to check it out (yes, I have no life) And this is how it looks when you get posted on MacSurfer