By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Internet, Leopard, Apple on May 12, 2008 at 12:55 pm
When the temperature outside starts with a 3 you know you have problems. A single digit, Fahrenheit, or preceded by a minus (as is often the case in Montreal and other under-developed parts of the world) means it is what is technically known as bloody freezing. A single digit after the 3, as in the southern half of the UK this weekend, the correct term is bloody hot. Unless you are measuring in the R
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Loading ...Comment by - May 12, 2008 on 8:28 pm
I love the thought of working in the garden but have yet to come across a screen that lets me see it properly in sunlight. Even my Nokia N800 makes me squint at it. Itis marginally better when I take off my sun glasses but then I get a headache from the sun lol. How are Macs for this?
Comment by - May 13, 2008 on 7:32 am
The much discussed glossy screens are actually very good. I was using a lowly MacBook in the shade, with brilliance and contrast turned to max. I wouldn’t want to do graphics work on it in the garden but watching TV and using Screen Sharing was fine. Late in the afternoon when the sunshine was less bright the screen was almost as good as when indoors.
My old Powerbook had a standard, non-glossy screen and was all-but useless in the sun.
Comment by - May 13, 2008 on 10:25 am
I agree with Sharon, I find the modern laptop screens unviewable in direct Sun… however in shaded areas its okay I agree - personally I find the reflective screens a pain on my commute, so have a non-reflective screen currently - direct sun on a reflective screen is horrible!
I too use my laptop + Slingbox (a v.cool thing) to watch my Skybox over the wireless network - and have been known to sit in the shaded area of the garden, watching tv while barbequeing food… I also have used it in all over the house, TV while cooking in the kitchen is another useful activity as the laptop can be placed directly beside the cooker - so no head turning required.
Comment by - May 13, 2008 on 10:32 am
Sadly, the only Slingbox we can connect to is located in Chicago, from which we get excellent reception. But US TV is dire so we only watch BBC’s international offerings and old movies.
It is tres kewl to watch TV direct from West Blackhawk Street to West Worthing, in the garden.
Comment by Jacques Daviault - May 19, 2008 on 1:27 pm
It’s been a very busy week in frozen Montreal… and so I didn’t read your latest post until today. A thousand apologies. I don’t have .Mac (it’s not available here in underdeveloped Montreal, but we’ve been promised electricity so it should be here soon), and that will probably be my Achilles heel, to borrow from another Mediterranean mythological lexicon.
Well, back to my Mac. 
Comment by Bb - May 22, 2008 on 5:52 pm
So much for ditching the F1 then!
Remote Administration is indeed one of the ancient wonders of the modern computer age.
I run a VNC client on my work desktop (Windows) which I can then log into from my home MacBook. From there I can then use a Remote Viewer within my Remote Viewer to control various (Windows) servers. It can get a bit confusing if you don’t pay attention to which machine you are actually controlling. Also - watch out for VNC ‘feedback’ when you connect a remote machine viewer to the local machine:
http://idisk.mac.com/tobytennent-Public/VNC_feedback_loop.jpg
Comment by - May 27, 2008 on 5:53 pm
having sorted out my time machinery [auto backup using superduper] and not needing all the rest of the 10.5 gubbins cause 10.4 works fine I can’t use back to my Mac.
but I can use logmein.com on any Mac running 10.2 or up [probably, certainly it works with 10.4] as can anyone with a humble pc.
I use it to sort out minor problems on my mate’s macbook 180 miles away.
Comment by smith0258 - April 23, 2010 on 10:02 am
It’s been a very busy week in frozen Montreal … and so I didn’t read your latest post until today. A th it was a very busy week in Montreal is frozen … And so I have not read your latest post until today. A thousand apologies. I (. Mac is not available here in Montreal is undeveloped, but we were promised electricity, it should be here soon), and that will probably be my Achilles heel, a mythological dictionary borrowed from Mediterranean LE. ousand apologies. I don’t have. Mac (it’s not available here in underdeveloped Montreal, but we’ve been promised electricity so it should be here soon), and that will probably be my Achilles heel, to borrow from another Mediterranean mythological lexicon.
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