| macbook pro en route. |
[Oct. 26th, 2006|12:23 am] |
i skipped the first generation of macbook pros for a number of reasons, but the second generation looks promising. i ordered mine just now. i always need an extra power adapter kicking around.. so i have to buy one of the new ones, hence the extra 71 bucks.
Apple 85W MagSafe Power Adapter (for MacBook Pro)
* Part Number: MA357LL/A
* Estimated ship: Within 24 hours
* Delivered within 2-3 business days after shipping
* 1 $71.00
MacBook Pro, 15-inch, 2.33GHz
* Part Number: MA610LL/A
* Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
* Accessory Kit
* 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
* MacBook Pro 15-inch Widescreen Display
* 120GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
* 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* SuperDrive 6x (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Estimated ship: 1-3 business days
* Delivered within 2-3 business days after shipping
* 1 $2,299.00
AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook Pro/PowerBook (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll
* Part Number: S2514Z/A
* Estimated ship: Within 24 hours
* Delivered within 2-3 business days after shipping
* 1 $239.00
Order Subtotal: $2,609.00
Shipping Charge: $18.00
Estimated Tax*: $220.02
Estimated Total: $2,847.02 |
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| dragonforce tickets |
[Sep. 28th, 2006|05:17 pm] |
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kevin bailed and i have two extra tickets to dragonforce in nyc for friday. any takers? |
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| rochester |
[Sep. 1st, 2006|01:50 pm] |
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i'm in rochester this weekend - if you don't know how to get ahold of me, leave me a comment. most of sunday is free but friday night and saturday might be doable depending on how things shape up. |
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| virtuedesktops & osx |
[Jun. 29th, 2006|01:02 am] |
this is mostly for osx users.
i'm a big virtual desktop user. i know a lot of people who do a ton of things at once have gone from using virtual desktops to using apple's exposé function.. but i'm just not a huge fan. it's nice and all, but for the same reason that i don't like to have windows overlapping eachother, i don't like to have windows cluttered enough where exposé would be handy for me. virtual desktops save the day for me.
up until now i've used desktop manager (http://desktopmanager.berlios.de) which is no longer developed, but apparently there's a new project based on desktop manager called virtuedesktops (http://virtuedesktops.info) and it's GREAT. one of the biggest things that annoyed me about desktop manager is when you switch the focus with apple+tab to another application, and that application was on another desktop.. your desktop would not be automatically switched. that's been fixed. there's also a neat pager that cam be brought up with a hotkey. virtuedesktops works with parallels (x86 macs only, obviously) so you can make one desktop a full-screen windows machine and another desktop a full-screen linux machine.. you get the idea. they have a little video of it in action on their site.
anyway, long story short, download virtuedesktops, tweak it to your liking (it took about 20 minutes of hotkey and preference tweaking plus one restart of the application to get everything working properly) and do a little dance - it really made my day by patching all the little annoyances with desktop manager. i'll probably donate 50 bucks to the project after i've used the software for a few months.
in other news, i have an intel mac mini being shipped to work to replace my desktop. at first glance it would seem underpowered for someone like me, but all my heavy computing is done on remote machines. right now i have 2 20" monitors, but i'm trading them in for 1 24" widescreen monitor which will run at 1920x1200 - osx plus virtuedesktops would provide spectacular window management on a monitor of half that size, so i think i'm pretty well off. i'm really happy that my boss is opening up and allowing the unix admins to purchase apple hardware to replace the dells so i can run the operating system that i'm most comfortable with. |
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| friday night agenda |
[Jun. 28th, 2006|08:48 am] |
here's the events for friday night. michelle and company seem to have bailed on me for TOTH since she has to pick up people from the airport, however anyone's welcome to join us (that includes you, kevin, mauvis, mark, and all other nyc dwellers on my friends list). both of these are birthday celebrations, however everyone is invited.
6pm - brooklyn brewery - me, michelle, kristen, etc.
http://www.brooklynbrewery.com
11pm - TOTH (turntables on the hudson) @ the frying pan - me, mike, kyle, erin, etc.
http://www.turntablesonthehudson.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=59979893 |
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| world of warcraft invites |
[Jun. 15th, 2006|09:23 am] |
so i have 5 10-day free passes, if anyone wants to try out world of warcraft. here's how it works.
* you get a copy of the game from someone you know, bittorrent, me.. doesn't matter
* you give me your email address
* i invite you
* you get 10 days for free to try it out
if you choose to continue and sign up for a full subscription, i get 30 days for free, and i'll probably paypal you 5 bucks or something since it saves me money. when signing up you should choose the realm that i play on (frostmourne).
the new expansion will be coming out this fall with tons of new content, so now's a great time to start a character, get some gold, become familiar with the world, etc.
you know you want to. |
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| ozzfest |
[May. 19th, 2006|12:48 pm] |
http://www.ozzfest.com/bands.html
anyone else want to go? a friend of mine and his girlfriend are going but i only like a few bands that are playing. i'll go if there's other people who want to go. july 29th, nyc. |
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| radiohead |
[May. 2nd, 2006|11:12 am] |
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radiohead is playing in nyc june 13th & 14th, and thanks to michelle stalking the ticket sales, i have tickets to see them both nights. |
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| tool |
[Apr. 28th, 2006|08:02 pm] |
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well this is a nice surprise.
i just got two tickets to see tool on saturday, may 20th at city center in the mail.
i spent all morning last saturday calling and trying to use their non-working website to get these tickets but i never received a confirmation and never checked to see if my credit card was charged.
wow, that's awesome. |
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| horse! |
[Mar. 5th, 2006|01:21 pm] |
it took me a real long time, but i finally got a horse in world of warcraft. i bought mine too.. none of that pansy free warlock crap!
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