I’ve just started do web site design work again. For the last year or so I havn’t done anything that really matters when it comes to web design, but am now.

So I’m basically done and what do I find? There’s one little things that Microsoft Internet Explorer messes up, again. If there was a way I could force everyone to use Firefox or Safari, it wouldn’t even take me a millisecond to decide to do it.

Havn’t posted anything here in awhile but just had to post this. I read awhile back on an MSDN blog where a developer basically was using Windows Server 2008 as his main desktop OS and gave a few tips on how to make that happen.

So today I got my copy from the action pack subscription and couldn’t resist trying it. I had Vista Business running inside VMware on my Mac without any issues for some time but lately it’s just been getting very frustrating. So I setup a new virtual machine and installed Server 2008 on it.

It’s absolutely awesome. In fact I’d rather use this than Windows XP, which doesn’t say much but still. I hope Windows 7 follows the trend of the server release rather than the desktop consumer release.

It’s fast, responsive, and just plain works like you expect (as far as Windows is capable of) instead of constantly working against you as does Vista.

Have fun trying it out for yourself!

Hey I’m actually writing an a new post here! Just came back from Chicago land. Went there to be rebooted, ended up with a new perspective.

As much as I hate driving downtown, overall it wasn’t too bad. Now what can I learn from the experiences gained in the past week? Remains to be seen.

Hey I have a great name for this, the Bible Nano!

Clicking on “Share Screen” asks for a password and then you can remotely take control of the other computer.

Now it starts to get interesting. I enabled Remote Desktop on a Ubuntu 7.10 box and OSX saw it immediately. So basically it’s completely cross platform compatible. So I thought maybe I could use this application as a general purpose VNC client, and yes you can!

The “Screen Sharing” application is stored in file:///System/Library/CoreServices/.

So basically I dragged it into the Dock and now it’s there for me to connect to your box whenever I want. All it asks is for the host and password if needed so it doesn’t have any advanced features at all. But it works.

How does $2 for every Gigabyte of data backed up sound? Cheap I’d say. Now what if you lost all your data. How cheap is that?

If you’re interested in a reliable and efficient backup solution, give me a call.

Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee

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.