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Category Archives: computers

What I’ve been up to…

17-Apr-08

The frustrating thing about most projects I’ve worked on in the past is that they’re so technical or specialized or intangible that I can’t even describe to friends and family what I’ve been spending all my time on.  Not so this time around.  If you want to see what I’ve been working on (and you [...]

FastMac MacBook Pro Battery

16-Feb-08

My original MacBook Pro battery went from providing a reasonable 2 hours of use to less than 10 minutes practically overnight. Also, this happened only weeks after the one-year warranty on my battery expired. Attempts to finagle a replacement battery failed.
Once bitten, I wasn’t all that thrilled about forking over $129 to Apple to replace [...]

smbd party!

02-Feb-08

I happened to look at Activity Monitor earlier today and noticed a “few” smbd processes running

 
I figured it was just a fluke and so I just restarted. However, all those smbd’s were not deterred that easily. They’re back, and in greater numbers:
$ ps waux | grep smbd | wc -l
148
I’m not even sure [...]

MacBook Air at Macworld

02-Feb-08

Better late than never I guess.
Also, viddler is hosting the video this time. I heard about via TUAW and so far it seems like a nice service.