iPhone 5 is coming! No really!.. May be not!

Just reminds of the story about "The sky is falling". But this time, all this panic is hurting the sales of the new deal between Apple and Verizon for the sale of iPone 4. I guess someone is chuckling about this brilliant idea. Apple benefits a lot by all these rumors of the new top secret uber super cool gadget they launch, but this time it hurt them. I wonder if it was Apple or Verizon who was hurt the most, but I know of someone naughty who is quite happy with this drop in iPhone 4 sales on Verizon.

Hmm... market dynamics!

 

Cygwin task - My office GTD

I extensively use Cygwin on Widows at home and at work. No no, I am not talking about Windex vs Cygwin. I am talking about the OS Windows :|
To some extent it has become indispensible to me. A nifty new tool that I installed on cygwin a few yrs ago has now become my primary GTD app @Work. I can manage all my office work using this tool. It's a very basic tool but it comes in handy.

You can find all the necessary help here

CPU Coolers and Thermal paste

When I first built my PC back in Dec 2009, the i7 920 CPU temp were 36/52 F running @ 2.67Ghz stock, and I was patting myself on the back for choosing a superb cooler. Then last week I thought since the system is running so well, for more than a year now, I needed to try something new.

I tried over clocking it and was successfully able to over clock it to 3.8 Ghz with temps like 55/75 F. Not too shabby on a air cooler! But I never really needed to over clock. Windows 7 Performance index crawled up by .2 from 7.4 to 7.6 out of 7.8; and yes I know I could have used some proper tool like 3D Mark scores, but never mind.

After returning to stock speeds, I realized that the temp was not 36/52 F, as I had or in that ball park, but now it was 42/65 F. I was not too pleased and I wanted to have the idle temps below 40F.

For almost a week, I have been taking off and re-mouting my Noctua NH-U12P SE2 120mm SSO CPU Cooler on my i7 920 CPU. I tried various combinations and techniques of changing the thermal paste and the amount and yet nothing gave in. I cleaned the surfaces with Artic remover and cleaner and used the noctua thermal compound and also bought the artic silver 5. Finally I settled with the artic silver 5 since the noctua compound seemed to have dried out. I used a credit card and a few drops to apply all over the surfaces and just enough to have a thin coat.

I have tried at least 10 iterations to get the CPU temperatures down and finally decided that I don't care anymore. I have concluded that, after a few years the CPU temps will never return to the youthful age again :(

Apparently, I am not the only one facing this problem of how much is too much, when it comes to thermal paste.
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/21/apple_macbook_pro_2011_freezes/

Ubuntu 10.10 Linux - Using wired for LAN and wireless for internet SIMULTANEOUSLY!

From my post @ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10590567#post10590567

Amazing, finally its all working!!

Setup: Ubuntu 10.10 connects to the internet using wireless (wlan0) and it also connects to my iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.6 over the lan (eth0). I have also configured netatalk and avahi so my Linux machine shows up in iMac thru zero conf/Bonjour (No manual connection required. Excellent writeup here)
The suggestions from the post pointed me in the right direction, but it did not work for me. I had to add some of my own tweaks before my networking adventure got on the road!
Steps:
1. I am using Network Manager. I removed Wicd Network Manager since I was looking for this option "Use this connection only for resources on this network"
2. As per quote 2, add a wired connection manually (iMac LAN). Setup is: fig. iMac LAN

Then configure a static IP as shown in fig. LAN.

3. For this LAN connection, using NM add the route details and check "Use this connection only for resources on this network" option after clicking "Routes".

4. I left wireless as is, but here it is in fig. wlan0

The config is now as shown in fig. wireless


5. Additionally, I configured the Network settings on the iMac. Go to System Preferences>Networking>Select 'Ethernet' on the left and for 'Configure IPv4' as Using DHCP with manual address. I used 169.254.26.55/255.255.0.0. This works with the LAN settings!

And now I am streaming movies from my RAID 5 on my Linux to the iMac over this LAN and using the internet on the Linux machine as well. Note: Somehow iMac chose this LAN interface over the wireless one! My avahi configuration does not have any interface info. BTW I need to be able to use the Linux RAID for my laptop over the wireless. Talk about a simple setup .

I am sure a nifty /etc/network/interfaces file config can do the same. But for now this is the Eureka moment !

Quote:
Originally Posted by gpgp
I want to connect to 2 physical networks. I am using my wired to go to lan used for machine control. And using my wireless to connect to the lan attached to the internet.

It seems i cannot use both at the same time in Karmic. If i open a web page via wireless then plug in to the machine control lan with my wired connection, i can no longer get web pages via wireless. The settings for wired are over riding the wireless and it doesn't try the wireless connection.
Can anyone help with this ?
Thanks
gpgp

I found it. there is a box to check : use this connection only for resources on this network. System> Prefernces> Network Connections> Select conection, edit> ip4 tab> routes button> check box.
Thanks, hope this helps someone else.

Quote:
Originally Posted by houstonbofh

If I am reading this right, you want to browse the Internet on wlan, while also connecting to a single network on lan. This is easy.

1) Right click on your network manager icon, and select 'Edit Connections.'
2) Under 'Wired' click '+ Add'
3) Name it something, uncheck 'connect automatically' select the 'IPV4' tab, and give yourself static IP, but do not fill in the gateway.

By not putting a gateway in, your lan interfaces has no default gateway, so the wlan one can be used. Otherwise the lan gateway takes precedence.

Zen Coding Plugins for Notepad++, TextMate, Coda

In the endless pursuit of plugins and softwares I stumbled upon this amazing plugin - Zen Coding. The best part is, it is available for quite a varitety of editors. I use Notepad++ on Windows and TextMate/Coda on Mac, also Eclipse and Komodo IDE on all platforms, and this plugin helps me with generating some basic template code using a very succinct syntax. 

e.g.,html>(head>title+style+script)+(body>table#mytable>(tr#r$>td*2)*3)

<html>
 <head>
  <title></title>
  <style type="text/css"></style>
  <script type="text/javascript"></script>
 </head>
 <body>
  <table id="mytable">
   <tr id="r1">
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
   </tr>
   <tr id="r1">
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
   </tr>
   <tr id="r1">
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
   </tr>
  </table>
 </body>
</html>

BTW .. In Notepad++ use TextFX>Convert>Encode HTML .. to encode all the html, so that it can be published on the blog.