This weekend...
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nowalmartNothing too eventful this weekend.
Friday I worked, and it was actually slow. This week had been a real pain at work, with tons of tedious, mind-numbing work to be done. Friday was a welcome break from this. Friday night found me going out with a friend to Harvard Square for dinner and a showing of "The DaVinci Code". I imagine there are a million and one reviews of the movie rolling around the Internet, so I will not bore you with one. To sum it up: WIthout having read the book, I found it an alright movie.
As far as the book goes, I would have to agree with a sentiment I saw a while back - "I have no need to read 'The DaVinci Code', I read the original work. It is called 'Foucault's Pendulum' and was written by Umberto Eco."
No sense in writing a book about a semiotics professor when, in fact, you are one...
Saturday found me back at work, and more tedious work to be done. Luckily I assigned a helper (Skeeter) so the day was not as bad as it could have been. Saturday night Skeeter and I watched "Magnolia" (my first time seeing the movie) and my somewhat chilly apartment.
Sunday morning Skeeter picked me up in her vehicle in time to get to the Fruit Stand at 8am for a 9am training session (yeah, yeah...) Donuts were consumed, a movie was made about Ponies, and all was good with the world.
Now it is Sunday afternoon. I had meant to do some gardening today in my new front yard, but three days of rain put a damper on that idea. A chilly Sunday afternoon, with nothing to do, and a nice warm bed?
NAPTIME!
So I napped for quite a while, and now I am trying to figure out what to do with my evening. Of course I have to be at work at 8am tomorrow, but...
In other news, I got the eMate talking to the iMac.
Things used:
1) A Belkin F5U103-MAC USB - Serial adaptor.
2) An OSS driver for said Belkin product
3) NewTen connection software.
4) Glass Onion Software's NewtSync (v0.3.3, not the commonly available, but broken under Tiger older version)
So right now I have the ability to install packages on the eMate, as well as the ability to sync both Address Book and iCal with the Newton software. The only slight annoyance (other than the general slowness of a serial connection) is that NewtSync will only sync one calendar from iCal. As a result I am currently using a program to combine together several calendars into one for placement onto the eMate.
The next plan, now that I have an install program working, is to get a wireless card for the eMate so I can get online (and sync via wireless!)
Other computer news:
I have my PowerBook hooked up to our television now, along with the eyeTV. The annoying part is that our apartment lost our cable a few days before I moved in, so the eyeTV is somewhat useless. I have a bunch of stuff recorded, but...
Today I got MediaCentral up and running, and it seems to be running a lot better than the last time I installed it. It brings the Mac+eyeTV about as close to a mythTV box as you are going to get for the moment, and I am pretty happy with it.
Imagine FrontRow with the ability to do things like... oh, watch live television, be able to access eyeTV recordings without exporting them, watch VIDEO_TS folders, and so on.
Friday I worked, and it was actually slow. This week had been a real pain at work, with tons of tedious, mind-numbing work to be done. Friday was a welcome break from this. Friday night found me going out with a friend to Harvard Square for dinner and a showing of "The DaVinci Code". I imagine there are a million and one reviews of the movie rolling around the Internet, so I will not bore you with one. To sum it up: WIthout having read the book, I found it an alright movie.
As far as the book goes, I would have to agree with a sentiment I saw a while back - "I have no need to read 'The DaVinci Code', I read the original work. It is called 'Foucault's Pendulum' and was written by Umberto Eco."
No sense in writing a book about a semiotics professor when, in fact, you are one...
Saturday found me back at work, and more tedious work to be done. Luckily I assigned a helper (Skeeter) so the day was not as bad as it could have been. Saturday night Skeeter and I watched "Magnolia" (my first time seeing the movie) and my somewhat chilly apartment.
Sunday morning Skeeter picked me up in her vehicle in time to get to the Fruit Stand at 8am for a 9am training session (yeah, yeah...) Donuts were consumed, a movie was made about Ponies, and all was good with the world.
Now it is Sunday afternoon. I had meant to do some gardening today in my new front yard, but three days of rain put a damper on that idea. A chilly Sunday afternoon, with nothing to do, and a nice warm bed?
NAPTIME!
So I napped for quite a while, and now I am trying to figure out what to do with my evening. Of course I have to be at work at 8am tomorrow, but...
In other news, I got the eMate talking to the iMac.
Things used:
1) A Belkin F5U103-MAC USB - Serial adaptor.
2) An OSS driver for said Belkin product
3) NewTen connection software.
4) Glass Onion Software's NewtSync (v0.3.3, not the commonly available, but broken under Tiger older version)
So right now I have the ability to install packages on the eMate, as well as the ability to sync both Address Book and iCal with the Newton software. The only slight annoyance (other than the general slowness of a serial connection) is that NewtSync will only sync one calendar from iCal. As a result I am currently using a program to combine together several calendars into one for placement onto the eMate.
The next plan, now that I have an install program working, is to get a wireless card for the eMate so I can get online (and sync via wireless!)
Other computer news:
I have my PowerBook hooked up to our television now, along with the eyeTV. The annoying part is that our apartment lost our cable a few days before I moved in, so the eyeTV is somewhat useless. I have a bunch of stuff recorded, but...
Today I got MediaCentral up and running, and it seems to be running a lot better than the last time I installed it. It brings the Mac+eyeTV about as close to a mythTV box as you are going to get for the moment, and I am pretty happy with it.
Imagine FrontRow with the ability to do things like... oh, watch live television, be able to access eyeTV recordings without exporting them, watch VIDEO_TS folders, and so on.
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Date: 2006-06-04 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-05 03:52 am (UTC)We have a Skeeter? And you're having sleepover's with him?
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Date: 2006-06-06 01:27 am (UTC)(at least not me. My roommate seems to have them a couple of times a week, but that is a subject for another post entirely)
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Date: 2006-06-05 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-05 01:08 am (UTC)If anyone finds this post in a Google search, there is a problem with the solution I presented earlier for getting the eMate seen through the Belkin device. The .kext needs to be owned by root, and needs to have its execution bit set.
cd to where the .kext is (eventually it will go into /System/Library/Extensions/ but you can do this before or after it gets there)
sudo chown -R root F5U103Driver.kextsudo chgrp -R wheel F5U103Driver.kext
To set it to executable:
sudo chmod -R ug+x F5U103Driver.kextAnd just so you don't have to reboot to test to make sure it works...
sudo kextload F5U103Driver.kextBefore you run NetSync you will also need to get the computer to see the device as a network interface, so open up the Network pane of the System Preferences and click "Apply" (you should get a warning that a new network interface was found).
And do not worry Chris, we love you anyway.
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Date: 2006-06-06 08:53 am (UTC)