Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
If you've been using a Macbook Pro or similar for some time, you'll find that their batteries need tender love and care, if they are to go the distance. According to Apple, I fit into the 'ideal use' category as I regularly use my notebook on the 1+ hour daily ...
Posted in General, OSX, Hardware | 5 Comments »
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Ever been on a client site and stuck with 1024 x 768?
I remember when even that was a dream, but after you get used to widescreen dual VGA in your own environment, weaning yourself off this can be a challenge. If you believe Microsoft research, dual screen users "never ...
Posted in Hardware, Productivity | No Comments »
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Good grief, I paid the price of tweaking my OS 10.4.x install after installing Leopard and dealing with the myriad of problems previous tweaking posed!
The first problem was after a very long upgrade process (1+ hours) for Leopard, I was presented with a nice blue screen, a mouse pointer and ...
Posted in OSX, Hardware | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Recently I have been trying to determine what the impact of using MQ message persistence is on disk subsystem performance. There is alot of literature from IBM recommending ideal configurations to support MQ persistence, so I won't turn this into a post that recommends ideal settings. What I did want ...
Posted in MQ, Solaris, Hardware, Analysis, Tuning | 3 Comments »
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I've been using a MacBook Pro for about 12 months now, and whilst I love this machine and its capabilities, it does tend to run at high temperatures. I use my laptop as a desktop replacement mostly, and whilst on my desk, I pretty much run parallels (virtual machines) all ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
I've been having a lot of problems with my Apple mighty mouse lately. Particularly with the scroll wheel which would scroll up but not down. I think eating chips and surfing the web was getting things too greasy. Apple lend us some advice here on how to clean your wheel ...
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