Geeklawyer has a dual screen 24″ iMac. When it was running Tiger it was rock solid. After Upgrading (?!) to Leopard he has been plagued with instability and crashing not seen since he ran Windows 98. The screen will lock up for 15 minutes on end — though background processes appear to be working.
In the belief that having done an upgrade over Tiger was the problem he just wiped and reinstalled, only to find exactly the same problems. There appear to be nVidia video driver issues. Oddly Tiger was stable until the last few updates when it started behaving the same way — although to a far lesser degree.
Leopard on Geeklawyer’s black Powerbook is fine — not a single issue — so the moral appears to be leave Leopard well alone if you have an old iMac.
16 year old plus Girl Guides want a ‘safe sex’ badge. Geeklawyer is available as a tutor, but not for the Brownies. Oh no.
The US is not interested in British opinions on the War on Terror. Wants to arrange the torture of people anyway. No shit?! really? — who’da thunk it.
Guantanamo trials a farce and window dressing for a lynching. No shit?! really? — who’da thunk it.
BBC committed to a Linux/Mac iPlayer. Geeklawyer thinks this is a good idea as he used either Ubuntu or OSx and rarely Winduhs apart from games. The trouble is that there is no DRM software for Linux so as long as content providers insist on it, stupidly in Geeklawyer’s opinion, we are stuffed.
Format shifting may be coming to the UK. You may soon be able to lawfully rip your CDs to MP3. Relieved? yea Geeklawyer is too ‘cos he doesn’t do it at the moment — honest.
Published on
27 April 2007 in
geeklawyer and waaaaay off-topic.
Tags: apple, birthday, harem, intel, linux, love, macbook, macmini, OSx, sex, ubuntu, xmas.
Princess Ruthie deigned to come to see Geeklawyer yesterday — an all too rare honour bestowed on the humble serfs comprising her harem. In between rampant activities too vile and sordid to soil even the pages of this blog — the Daily Star of the legal blogging world — Ruthie was spoilt by Geeklawyer with a fine lunch and no expense spared. £30 well spent. And she finally had the fine ring that he bought her as an Xmas present resized to fit her elephant like pinkie.
But the best bit: having been lulled into a spirit of love by such a phoney display or synthetic affection from Geeklawyer Ruthie was suckered into buying Geeklawyer a Mac Mini. Geeklawyer often marvels at you Earth creatures — this thing you call love makes you mad and blind. Being a cold creature of logic Geeklawyer understands how to exploit it to full advantage.
And, Oh, what advantage. The Mac Mini is such an uber cool toy. However Ruthie was not entirely exploitable: Geeklawyer had tried to get Ruthie to buy him a Macbook Pro but was rebuffed. Then he made his pitch for a middle of the range Macbook, but tight-arse Ruthie was still not enough moved by the spirit of love to buy that. A Mac Mini was settled on and Geeklawyer nonetheless feels super happy — a profitable result just for some distasteful sex.
The plan is to rip out OSx (despite it being such a sweet operating system) and install Linux. Geeklawyer is not sure what Linux distros run on Intel Macs (Ubuntu?) but when this is done he will use the Mini as a co-location server box and, finally, have a decent server to run his various web projects, such as this blog, on.
Published on
3 April 2007 in
Geek and toys.
Tags: broadband, GPS, hiking, HSDPA, Internet, Internet Tablet, Maps, MDA, modem, mp3, N800, Nokia, Nokia N95, OSx, phones, video, wi-fi, wireless.
(This post has been authorised by Ruthie)
Geeklawyer is not one to bear a grudge. Honest. It’s true that he has had an unfortunate experience with the Nokia N800 Internet tablet. They show signs of making up for it with a great new toy: the Nokia N95 smartphone.
Geeklawyer has been sticking with a functional but dull Nokia 6230 awaiting the arrival of the N95. And he been doing so since September of last year.
The wait is over and, damn, it was worth it. It works seamlessly with Mac OSx unlike the crappy MDA Pro (Ruthie has just acquired an O2 XDA — the same inadequate model Geeklawyer has joyfully ditched). It has a 5 megapixel camera, high definition video, email, an FM radio, MP3 player and photo and video gallery. It has a proper sized earphone jack so one can use decent headphones and not the silly ‘phone only’ specials other phones have. It has a MicroSD slot with cards available up to 2Gigs. A fast USB2 connector allows for proper synchronization with a PC and one can synchronize over bluetooth or wireless.
Best of all it has an inbuilt GPS receiver. This takes some time to start up and hunt satellites, and this caused Geeklawyer some concern, but when it does start it is reasonably accurate for a GPS unit of this type and one can pay for download-able maps. Geeklawyer bought the UK maps. This functionality was given a brief test and it worked well but Geeklawyer intends to take it hiking for a serious test.
On the connectivity front it has all bases covered: it has bluetooth and, wonderfully, Wi-Fi it is also HSDPA capable, one of only a handful of phones with it. HSDPA can give near broadband speeds when there is decent coverage: pages downloaded in a flash and it’s capabilities as a Mac Powerbook modem lead Geeklawyer to regard this as the best breed of smartphone available so far: the MDA Pro has a better size of screen but the N95 has a superior browser: Opera.
This is a truly excellent phone and well worth the wait. Provided it doesn’t screw up in the next few weeks Geeklawyer may be prepared to forgive the N800 fiasco.
Published on
18 February 2007 in
legal profession.
Tags: adsense, blogging, Dear Leader, ego, fees, House of Lords, Impact, law firms, lawyers, Legal 500, OSx.
Geeklawyer is pleased by the recent modest growth of UK law blogs — we have a long long way to go before we reach the same relative numbers as in the US. But there is something of a contradiction here: while welcoming more bloggers Geeklawyer is concerned …
Continue reading ‘Why should an English lawyer blog?’
Published on
31 January 2007 in
Geek.
Tags: beagle, BSD, business, dashboard, DRM, linux, microsoft, monopoly, OSx, RIAA-MPAA, spotlight, windows.
Geeklawyer is pretty much unimpressed by the Windows Vista publicity blitz hailing the new release of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system: yea, the visuals look pretty slick at least based on the publicity seen so far, but he’ll reserve judgement until he’s seen it running and decide if its significantly better than OSx. He doubts it.
Continue reading ‘Windows Vista — not much of a view?’
For an eternity Geeklawyer has been trying to get his superflash phone to act as a modem for his Apple laptop, and failing in truly monumental style. In a moment of rare and uncharacteristic self-doubt he wondered if perhaps he was not, after all, both an alpha male lawyer and an alpha geek.
Continue reading ‘huzzah!! Geeklawyer is now is never away from the Intarweb’
Published on
20 November 2006 in
toys.
Tags: apple, hype, ipod, iRiver, mp3, OSx, radio, recorder, RIAA-MPAA, voice, wireless, zune.
Geeklawyer cannot find a decent mp3 player. He currently has a Creative Zen Vision:M but frankly, it’s a dogs dinner. The software is crap, there’s no Apple Mac OSx software (except some ropey Opensource stuff) you can’t use it as a portable hard drive and the FM radio broke within 2 months. The Apple iPod is a superbly thought out device but it is overhyped overpriced and underspecified: to get anything decent like a radio, or even something so basic as a voice recorder, requires a dongle which is expensive and pointless — except that the 3d party ecosystem is intended to milk you the punter of the maximum amount of cash possible. Fair enough Geeklawyer says, business is business, but Steve: don’t tell me you love me as you rifle though my wallet. Continue reading ‘MP3 players’
Geeklawyer is a huge fan of Apple’s OS and hardware. they really are pretty spiffing. He can’t say the same for their litigation. The corporate monster is, of course, a beast and a paradox for all Apple fanboys. Continue reading ‘Itunes’
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