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elainegrey) wrote2010-05-27 03:05 pm
elainegrey) wrote2010-05-27 03:05 pm
Chrome and matte
This post is via Chrome, which i just might use from now on. I'm trying out chrome because the colleague who was visiting was using it, and i spent a great deal of time seing it projected. I've become curious. Also, Safari does not work well with google docs.
Note to the nefarious: do you know how many corporate drones are using Google Docs for collaborating on TopSecret DoNotDistribute corporate planning documents? I don't, but it's N+1 as of this week.
I feel a little guilty since i am NOT ALLOWED to have those docs on my personal computer.
But they can be on the cloud. At least, my drone colleagues are happy to trust Google with the docs.
I'm not. But, wow, we got a lot done by projecting the docs and spreadsheets and all editing them together. We also speculated that the corporate lawyer in charge of security and data liability was "popping prilosec" at that very moment and didn't know why.
--==∞==--
I also touched a Sprint EVO 4G phone yesterday, the give-away at the Google I/O conference. Clearly, there is some sort of marketing pheromone embedded in the back of the device, because i MUST HAVE ONE. Christine and i had been looking at it and talking about it and watching the Sprint guys demo it via YouTube, but i had this feeling that by the time it was available i would be completely uninterested in owning one. Just as last year, when i coveted the Palm Pre, i had become disillusioned.
But BW showed it to me and my HomeOffice colleague, and demoed just how much faster than the iPhone it is, and i was pathetic and asked "Is it a snapdragon?" and YES it is running the sweet little snapdragon processor -- and thirty years ago we'd have been talking about cars like this, yes?
It's interesting: the back is matte black, and i was so taken with the texture of that. I tweeted this morning that, "Matte is the new glossy." I don't know how true that really is, but....
--==∞==--
I now have a terabyte of portable storage on my desk. One is a USB powered drive, and i now have a (theoretically rugged) firewire bus powered drive. When i travel on business in a month, i will be able to take my work laptop and the firewire drive, and then boot from the firewire drive on the weekends and evenings to play with "my" computer. It seemed fast enough from a brief experiment a few nights ago.
However, reading some of the documentation about SuperDuper (the Mac backup software i use that clones the hard drive) introduced me to the idea that one might consider defraging a Mac. I have NEVER defragged a *nix OS. On the other hand, i really didn't know why i didn't have to -- does answer the question (with help -- and vitriol -- in the comments) about why the linux filesystem type ext2/3 did not need defragging the way a windows system did to keep performance tolerable with a certain amount of regular usage.
Apple seems to think it's an unnecessary step unless you're working with large video files, etc: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US
So i'll go back to thinking it's unnecessary.
I did use OnyX, another Mac utility, to hopefully tidy up my OS. I find that the Macs don't feel as fast as they used to: i suspect that's a subjective issue of impatience.
--==∞==--
Boy, i remember how impressive it was the first time i saw the Irix SGI workstation in action with one of the bouncy ball demos.
There's more i could write but i have burnt the afternoon. I've a doorway in the meetinghouse to paint and dinner out with a friend. Then tomorrow is working like mad documenting stuff, then a committee meeting in the messy apartment.
So it goes.
Note to the nefarious: do you know how many corporate drones are using Google Docs for collaborating on TopSecret DoNotDistribute corporate planning documents? I don't, but it's N+1 as of this week.
I feel a little guilty since i am NOT ALLOWED to have those docs on my personal computer.
But they can be on the cloud. At least, my drone colleagues are happy to trust Google with the docs.
I'm not. But, wow, we got a lot done by projecting the docs and spreadsheets and all editing them together. We also speculated that the corporate lawyer in charge of security and data liability was "popping prilosec" at that very moment and didn't know why.
--==∞==--
I also touched a Sprint EVO 4G phone yesterday, the give-away at the Google I/O conference. Clearly, there is some sort of marketing pheromone embedded in the back of the device, because i MUST HAVE ONE. Christine and i had been looking at it and talking about it and watching the Sprint guys demo it via YouTube, but i had this feeling that by the time it was available i would be completely uninterested in owning one. Just as last year, when i coveted the Palm Pre, i had become disillusioned.
But BW showed it to me and my HomeOffice colleague, and demoed just how much faster than the iPhone it is, and i was pathetic and asked "Is it a snapdragon?" and YES it is running the sweet little snapdragon processor -- and thirty years ago we'd have been talking about cars like this, yes?
It's interesting: the back is matte black, and i was so taken with the texture of that. I tweeted this morning that, "Matte is the new glossy." I don't know how true that really is, but....
--==∞==--
I now have a terabyte of portable storage on my desk. One is a USB powered drive, and i now have a (theoretically rugged) firewire bus powered drive. When i travel on business in a month, i will be able to take my work laptop and the firewire drive, and then boot from the firewire drive on the weekends and evenings to play with "my" computer. It seemed fast enough from a brief experiment a few nights ago.
However, reading some of the documentation about SuperDuper (the Mac backup software i use that clones the hard drive) introduced me to the idea that one might consider defraging a Mac. I have NEVER defragged a *nix OS. On the other hand, i really didn't know why i didn't have to -- does answer the question (with help -- and vitriol -- in the comments) about why the linux filesystem type ext2/3 did not need defragging the way a windows system did to keep performance tolerable with a certain amount of regular usage.
Apple seems to think it's an unnecessary step unless you're working with large video files, etc: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US
So i'll go back to thinking it's unnecessary.
I did use OnyX, another Mac utility, to hopefully tidy up my OS. I find that the Macs don't feel as fast as they used to: i suspect that's a subjective issue of impatience.
--==∞==--
Boy, i remember how impressive it was the first time i saw the Irix SGI workstation in action with one of the bouncy ball demos.
There's more i could write but i have burnt the afternoon. I've a doorway in the meetinghouse to paint and dinner out with a friend. Then tomorrow is working like mad documenting stuff, then a committee meeting in the messy apartment.
So it goes.