Soup Plantation<\/a> I flipped on my iPhone and a list of WiFii networks appeared. The following SSID was found: NCC-1701D. Unfortunately it was protected, but I would have liked to see what was on the network.<\/p>\n2) The new cell phone law in California is a joke. $20 fine? Most people are just ignoring it. Over the last week I have seen at least 3 dozen cars still talking on the handsets while driving as they drift all over the road. So basically, the law is not a deterrent. I say fine them $250 for the 1st offense and take away their license for the 2nd. And who the heck thinks SMS texting is safer than holding a phone to your ear?<\/p>\n
3) I purchased a new Cavalry raid array. This is a dual 500gb raid 1 or 0 array with eSata. I lost the single external drive on my Tivo last month. Fortunately I didn’t loose a lot of shows, but I wanted my disk space back so I could get my 95 hours of HD recording back. The drive array arrived in the mail yesterday and I attached it to my tivo. It told me I now had 165 hours of HD. That can’t be right!!!!<\/p>\n
So I realized even though the sticker on the side said mirroring, it was set up in striping mode. It has a little dial that is supposed to change the raid level but the numbers are out of alignment. Fortunately I was able to plug it into my mac running VMware and install the management software. I had to dial through and check the management software to see what position it was in. Once I found the Raid 1 position, I had it re-sync the volume. This took about 5 hours. Once the sync finished, I re-attached it to the Tivo and now I have my protected volume. Now I need to figure out how to protect the internal drive from failure.<\/p>\n
4) I also bought a USB raid 1 chassis. This I plugged into the apple Airport. Now I can backup my mac using Time Machine.<\/p>\n
5) I tried to upgrade my mac to leopard. what a disaster. The DVD I was using had a corrupt file, so it left my mac in a very unusable state. Fortunately I had a backup and could do a fresh install from a new DVD and then migrate my data. What should have been a 2 hour install took a day and a half. Lesson learned, do NOT skip the verification of the dvd when installing the OS.<\/p>\n
6) The new iPhone software was released today at 4pm. (8 hours late). I upgrade my phone and am loving the application feature. There are some really good third party apps. I also am SOOOOOOO happy the calendar now supports groups. I can now identify which calendar the appointment is associated with.<\/p>\n
7) I have a new up-converting DVD player. It will do 1080p, but for some reason it will not sync at 1080p though my receiver. I have to keep it at 1080i. I will have to call Pioneer at some point. I wonder if my extended warranty is still valid.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it’s been a very busy tech week at Pond Haven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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