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My Review of Kanex iAdapt 51 Mini DisplayPort to HDMI

Originally submitted at Abt ElectronicsKanex iAdapt 51 Mini DisplayPort to HDMI – MDPHDMITOS/ True HDMI 1.3 Chipset Enables Highest Quality Resolution Support Up To 1080p Deep Color/ Design For Apple? Unibody 2009 Models/ Supports Mini DisplayPort 1.1a Input/ Input Video Signal: Mini DisplayPort/ Input Audio Signal: Apple? Mini Jack/ Wh… [...]

The state of our education system

Just ran across this on Slashdot.

Short version:

Teacher stops child from giving away Linux CDs to other students.  Claims that there is no such thing as “free” software, and the child is obviously doing something illegal.

I’m so dumbfounded, I have nothing to add.

Got my iPhone…

…so what enterprising soul is going to give me an ssh client?

iPhone FTL

Andi and I tried to get iPhones this morning…an exercise in futility.

For some reason, AT&T/Apple decided that 20 phones per AT&T store should be plenty. Jackasses.

Testing TextMate for Blogging

Supposedly I can use TextMate, which I use for most of my coding, for blogging. Let’s see how this goes.

Snowboarding

Andi got a job at Shawnee Mountain. This means I get to snowboard for free at a mountain that is actually on my way home from work, which rules. So, I went snowboarding today for the first time in several years. I kept meaning to go every year, but something always came [...]

Stupid Mac Tricks

Today’s silly-ass trick? This page, that shows you what my laptop sees each time it wakes from sleep.

ZFS in OSX

According to World of Apple, the next release of OSX (Leopard) contains Sun’s ZFS. If you haven’t heard of ZFS, you should really check it out. Sun is calling it “The last word in file systems”, and they may be right. Maximum filesystem sizes in the zettabyte range, maximum file sizes in [...]

I quit smoking

The title really says it all. I’m on day 13 without a cigarette and I’m actually starting to feel better. I took the patch route, which really seems to have taken a lot of the edge off. The downside to the patch is that it gives you really vivid dreams, so I [...]

Mac+VMware update

Well, apparently VMware has heard the cries of OSX users…sort of. VMware for OSX is in “Friends and Family” beta right now, and hopefully will see public consumption soon. The new product is called VMware Fusion and is apparently a cross between Player and Workstation. This does NOT make me happy. [...]