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My Review of Kanex iAdapt 51 Mini DisplayPort to HDMI

Caleb Shay — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:23:50 +0000

Kanex 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…

Works great

By Caleb from Bushkill, PA on 2/23/2010

Pros: Highly Compatible

Best Uses: Turn Mac Mini into HTPC

Describe Yourself: Quality Oriented

Primary use: Personal

I used this to connect my Mac Mini to my HDTV and Surround Sound system. Works flawlessly to get 5.1 audio and HD video from my Mac Mini for use with Boxee/Hulu/FrontRow/whatever.

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The state of our education system

Caleb Shay — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:47:45 +0000

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…

Caleb Shay — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:54:19 +0000

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

iPhone FTL

Caleb Shay — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:56:00 +0000

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

Caleb Shay — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:39:30 +0000

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

Did it work?

Can I include an image?

Snowboarding

Caleb Shay — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:30:58 +0000

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 up. Moving, moving again, out of work, have work but no time, life threatening car accident, etc. Anyways, I got up a mountain today, and here are the things I’ve concluded about me and snowboarding:

I’m getting old. I’m going to need to start doing some stretches first before I just jump on a board now. I managed to pull multiple muscles almost immediately.
Part of the excitement of doing this was it struck me as a good way to get some exercise to help me lose weight. Problem: I need to lose some weight in order to really be able to do this. Between the extra baggage and the flexibility problems, after I got to the top of the mountain it took me almost 15 minutes to get my bindings adjusted, with lots of huffing and puffing. This got really old after a couple of runs.
Speaking of a couple of runs…that was all I could do before I was exhausted. I guess that really shouldn’t be surprising given the above mentioned items.
Shawnee is a teeny-tiny mountain. Even with my amazing ability to fall almost as much as I did the first time I ever got on a board, a run still only took a few minutes. On the plus side, this means the lift ride is really short, so you don’t really have time to get cold stiff muscles while riding up the mountain.
I need some braces for my snow pants. I spent most of my time going down the mountain trying to pull my pants back up with gloves on and not fall down or fill my pants with snow.
As much as I love snow sports, and as much as I love bars with interesting drinks, the two REALLY should not be combined (but hot cider with a shot of Hot Damn! in it is really tasty).

Part of me keeps saying, “You have no health insurance, what the hell are you doing falling down a mountain?”, but the other part of me says “Health insurance costs money I don’t have right now, but falling down a mountain where your wife works is free!”.

Here’s to illogical logic and crossed fingers…Cheers!

Stupid Mac Tricks

Caleb Shay — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:20:16 +0000

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

ZFS in OSX

Caleb Shay — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:37:29 +0000

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 the exabyte range, built-in checksumming to guarantee filesystem integrity. Simple storage pools for creating filesystems without a separate volume manager. Self-healing. Blazingly fast. Dynamic striping. Automatic block size adjustment. Snapshots. It’s all there and then some. Think of it as being able to treat your local storage like an enterprise SAN. I’m pretty excited about this (if you can’t tell). I wonder if Apple will let me put my root filesystem on ZFS…

I quit smoking

Caleb Shay — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:52:54 +0000

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 haven’t had a good night’s sleep in 2 weeks. In theory you can take the patch off before going to bed, but then you wake up cranky and REALLY craving a cigarette.

However, I still get irritated easily, but not as bad as going cold turkey. My wife is a saint for putting up with my mood swings.

Mac+VMware update

Caleb Shay — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:41:39 +0000

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. Honestly, I didn’t even care if I actually had virtualization for my mac, I just want a damn ESX client!