Today I finally fixed the problem I was having with my wireless network connection. It would cut out completely requiring a restart or sometimes it would randomly work again. It would loose the network easily or if the display dimmed or the computer went to sleep, you wouldn’t have much chance of getting back online for the moment. My computer is a Macbook Pro and the network is 802.11N with WPA2 Personal security. Now after digging around for a couple of hours I uninstalled VMware Fusion, reinstalled using the new 1.1 Release Candidate, and it works grand. Just to be sure I also completely uninstalled Parallels which is also known to cause such problems. So now I’m happy to have a reliable wireless network again. The cause was some network related kernel extensions these VMs added. I guess it messed up the OS upgrade.Lesson to be learned. Don’t blame the OS right away. And by the way, VMware is a lot better than Parallels. I’m working on compiling VirtualBox as well which is an open source virtual machine. I’ve heard good things of it, but it will have to be good to beat VMware Fusion.

The major thing holding me back from using Gmail on my desktop mail client is the fact that it only supported POP for mail access. But now all that’s changed as of this screenshot from my account:

Hey, this notebook actually works really well for recording. Here’s myself playing around on my mouth organ.

Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee

Well I went and bought myself a Macbook Pro. First I checked every Staples and Bestbuy store in the local area. When they didn’t have the one I wanted in stock. (They were either bought-out or didn’t carry them.)

So I ordered one from Staples.ca. They deliver next day but since I ordered after 6pm they delivered two days later. But it was the wrong machine. Inside I found  a white Macbook 2GHZ little thing. So I call them straight away and the next day they drop by and pick up the delivered book dropping off the one I wanted and paid for.

Overall I would continue to recommend Staples.ca. So long as someone is there to receive it as they’ll try twice and cancel the order otherwise.

But now to the good stuff, I like the trackpad. Use two fingers to scroll/zoom. Tap with two fingers to do a right click. The keyboard is great once you get used to it, especially how it lights up automatically as the lighting decreases. I setup an 802.11n network with WPA2 security and it works great.
It’s amazingly fast, especially coming from a PPC machine.

I wouldn’t mind if the battery lasted a little longer. But you probably could say that about every laptop currently in production.

Bootcamp is incredibly easy to use. I’ve installed Vista along with Mac OS X.
Talking about operating systems I pre-ordered Leapord yesterday. Haven’t used it yet so we’ll see how good it really is.

The Wissmann Family was over here for a few days.  I’ve recorded and edited each session and we will probably make them available on lighthousegospel.net in the coming days.

Hi there! To those who actually read my blog every now and then.

I’ve moved it over to a subdomain, blog.artooro.com and upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 at the same shot, not to mention using subversion as an installation and upgrade mechanism.

Not sure what I’ll do with the main domain yet but we’ll see what happens in the coming days and weeks.

The Israeli security cabinet  approved a new aircraft missile defense system to be installed on all civilian aircraft. This decision comes after intelligence reports and the fact that Israel’s enemies having access to more advanced missile technology.

They’re the first nation to do so, and it’ll be interesting to see what progresses.