Setting up Fedora 9 on my Mac mini as we speak. I can’t get over how much of a breeze it is. The mini is going to be used as a local dev server. I’m pretty excited to be able to work locally on our projects — it’s going to speed up development greatly (oh, and I won’t continually break things on the live servers).
On my Blackberry, I have this little indicator light towards the top right of the device. Whenever I have a voicemail, email, text-message, etc, it will blink a red light. When I first got the phone, I didn’t think much of it. But once my use with the device increased, I realized I rely heavily on the indicator. It allows me to know if I have any form of messages pending without having to turn the screen on — thus saving on battery usage.
Why doesn’t the iPhone have this? Apple uses their trademark glowing light on many of their devices. My Mac Mini has it, my AppleTV has it. Why isn’t it implemented into the iPhone? The iPhone should have the glowing light whenever there is a message waiting to be retrieved. Why they left this out is beyond me.
I decided to disable the Mac OS X Dashboard tonight in hopes of freeing up some extra memory. So far, so good.
I didn’t want to really comment on the MacBook Air. At first, I was like every other Apple fanboy — OMGZ! APPLE MACBOOK AIRZ~! SO TINY, SO NICE! And then I came to my senses.
Excuse my language once more, but who the fuck is this thing designed for?
Well, I picked up a hard-drive today to install within my Mac Mini. The idea of upgrading the Mac Mini is a pain in the ass, because of how small the system is. But in all reality, it’s really not that much different than upgrading a regular old desktop.
Once you’re able to pry the case apart, it’s a breeze — just unscrew a few sets of screws, remove the wireless antenna, and you’re golden.
As of right now, I’m about 5 minutes away from a clean install of OSX on a new hard-drive. I’m currently shopping for an external enclosure in hopes of restoring the contents of the original hard-drive.
We’ll see how this all works out — hopefully I didn’t lose too much data, but at least my entire music collection was on another external drive.
Update: All enclosures for 2.5″ sata drives are extremely ugly — why can’t they make good looking cases for these things?
24Hansen is my venue to write about whatever is on my mind. I don't consider myself a blogger. Instead, I like to post entries within my journal. HUGE difference, I know.
I am currently twenty five years old, though I feel like I'm still twelve. I'm engaged to a wonderful person, and have three crazy, but very lovable, cats.
On May 21st of 2008, our precious Sunny passed away. You may read more about him here.
