i'm testing ecto
this is the first post with the new version of ecto (one of the good points of doing a fresh install is that you update all your programs…)
back on track
thanks to the aforementioned disassembly guide me ibook now sports a nifty 60gb harddisk. to make things really pretty i decided to do a fresh install of panther. so things might be slow on the blog for some days, because i need to get back all the programs and little tools i so heavily rely on (just to make sure everything works, i’m writing this from the cloned backup….)
ibook disassembly
after i partially unscrewed my ibook last night i gave up at two o’clock in the morning (mostly because i was too tired to go on and couldn’t see the screws anymore :-) then this morning i found this detailed pdf (1mb) in which cybergreg nicely explains how to replace the internal hdd of an ibook. so i just need to grab one of these really small screwdrivers and give it another go…
holy shit!
my internal harddisk is acting extremely funky, and making weird clicking noises all the time. at first i presumed it’s extreme overheating, cause i was doing some very processor-intensive work yesterday eveing. (rendering a huge mosaic with MacOSaiX). but this afternoon it’s not back to normal the weird clicking sound is still there. thank god i have got a bootable backup so i can try to do some debugging. after i booted from my external harddisk i started the disk utility from the backup and tried to verify the startup disk (the internal harddisk on my ibook). after a short while disk utility tells me that “the nesting of folders has exeeded the limit” which is beyond my explanation (see image on the left). i hope disk utility can fix this…
farenheit 9/11
i wanted to watch farenheit 9/11 tonight in the television (i missed it in the cinemas). but since i will go to see another movie tonight with wolf, peter and bruni i can’t… so, while i sit in the cinema, i’m (legally) downloading it via bittorrent, because the internet veterans for truth share their bandwith in the wake of the presidential elections in the us of a. ("…to help you make the right choice on Tuesday.") so you can download farenheit 9/11 as a 214 mb .mov file or as a bittorrent of the same size and watch it later on, wherever you wish.
pictures of the week 45
today i’ve been in the rope-park with nine (a belated birthday surprise for her). that was quite an amazing and adrenalie-inducing afternoon. but the most amazing thing was that nina is able to smile really charming before abseiling herself 15 meters down a tree. from above while abseiling from below ps: i know the picture lacks in the sharpness-departement, but i like it anyway… ps2: more pics are on flickr ps3: can you believe it’s only 7 weeks to go until ‘05?
address book apple-script
the powerbook blog linked to a nice hint on macosxhints.ch (features german translations of osxhints.com, but also original german hints). you might have seen that you can click on any label in a contacts detail (e.g. work address, telephone, etc) to get a nice menu to do things with the data (get it in huge letters all over your screen, look for the map, print label, etc.). since the release of panther coders can add to these menus with little apple-script-effort. the script mentioned in the hints adds an european map search, but i wanted to alter it to use the excellent map.search.ch. after downloading the nice applescript i changed it to this point:
how geeky can it get?
the image on the left shows how my flatmate notified me of the ready diner tonight. and he even didn’t cook, cause rita made some delicious homemade noodles.
want a mini-dv cam? [update]
i cannot remember the last time i used my video-cam, so i’m selling it. if you need one, go and grab it on ricardo.ch (or email me and i’ll delete the auction and sell it to you, bypassing the ricardo.ch-fees. i’ll even throw in all my home-videos for you :-) ) update: it’s sold already!
dubya bush doesn't want you
so, let’s assume you’re part of the internationally interested population and want to read george dubya bushs weblog to see what he (or his blogger) wants to tell you. or do you just want inform yourself about his view on different things that are important to yourself? but since monday morning you cannot access his website (www.georgewbush.com) from europe (or just about any other part of the non-us-world)? since quite a long time the website just times out on you and since monday morning you get one of these funky error messages seen in the image on the left. hm, then you’re left out behind and must stick to kerry’s page :-)