magsafe adapter problem
i hate the magsafe adapter that came with my macbook. three nights in a row it’s refused to power up. i suspect it got something to do with low power or voltage – whatever. it works fine during the day, though.
nginx, rails, php in leopard
I went on 2-day hackfest last weekend to run nginx, rails on php my macbook with a little help from lighttpd. Most of the time was eaten by compiling php -disable cli if building cgi with fastcgi- and writing shell scripts to manage nginx and spawn-cgi (from lighty). Nifty trick I learn when compiling in mac, use the configs from macports.
Tab Switching in Leopard
Found a nice plugin to switch Terminal tabs in my Macbook by using ⌘ 1-9 through aidanf.net. For somebody working in with terminals the whole day, this is godsend.
Got a nikon and a macbook
It’s been a while since the last time I actually blogged. So, maybe, to get things started again on this side of the networked world I am very happy to say that there’s a lot of new things I got myself into.
Two weeks ago I bought a Nikon digital SLR. It was hard deciding which system to buy. Canon also makes great cameras. In fact, I know more Canon than Nikon users. In the end I went with the cheapest one I liked. I bought a Nikon D40. For a couple more bucks I could have got a Canon 400D but the D40 just feels right during the tests. I’ve been out shooting most of the time ever since. The shots? They’re crappy at best.
And just today, I finally decided to get a Macbook. I have a month old Acer that I’m using to communicate to my family back in the Philippines. The Acer Aspire running Ubuntu works -well, almost – perfectly. The trackpad is so dumb it’s jumping all over the place. It doesn’t have a on/off button I came to love from my Compaq Presario. Writing code in the Aspire is a pain in the ass.
Like the DSLR, I have been wanting to get a Macbook ever since. I just didn’t have any compelling reason to get one. The real thing is really a joy to look and touch.
Drooling over Macs
I just saw a couple of people pulled out their MacBooks at Kublai Khan. How I would love to get my hands on them (the Macs not the people).