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Apple in Shanghai
Here is where they are in Xujiahui at the Taipingyang Shopping Mall is the Apple outlet on the first floor Macsimum News – People’s Republic of Mac; The East is Mac The East is Mac. I’ve yet to see a place on the mainland where the Mac is more felt than in Shanghai. Apple ads…
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Dell XPS 410 vs. Apple iMac 24″
OK, so here is an interesting shootout, take the Dell XPS 410 that has the Core Duo and compare it with the Apple iMac. The “iMac”:http://store.apple.com/1-800-780-5009/WebObjects/EducationIndividual.woa/6224004/wo/gp2Z3rHpoCgE2Jnw5rC1jaAK5BG/2.?p=0 is $2200, has a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4MB cache, 1GB of 667MHz DDR2-SDRAM (PC2-5300), 250GB 7200rpm SATA Drive , nVidia GeForce 7600GT 256MB SDRAM and includes…
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Windows XP onto a Dynamic Disk
We’ll, our primary 75GB drive looks like its failing, I took a new 750GB (!!) drive and made a 700GB data and 50GB system area, but in order to install Windows XP on the 50GB section, I need to make it recognizable. Apparently, only certain types of partitions can be used for Windows XP. Here’s…
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Beware of Mobile Sidewalk!
Beware of theses guys at “Mobile sidewalk”:http://www.mobilesidewalk.com/ a buddy of mine, Brian, told me about them, I browsed their site and then they asked me for my mobile number. Little did I realize that they would start charging me $10/month via T-mobile for a service I never used. Amazing that folks can get away with…
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ipod backup
“Ilounge”:http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-computer/ covers iPod backup and copying utilities. It recommends the $15 PodPlus or the 10 pound Podutil.
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iPod Speakers
!http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/12/0,1425,i=127093,00.jpg!:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1927961,00.asp * “Think Outside BoomTube H2O1 review by PC Magazine Think Outside BoomTube H201 looks like the Apple Hifi, but according to PC Magazine, this $150 portable sounds much better. It is round and has dual subwoofers (if you can call 2.2 inch drivers subwoofers). * Apple iPod Hi-Fi. Super expensive at $350 so way…
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iPod Nano 2G
Mystery chips, no PortalPlayer inside new iPod nano the new second-generation iPod nano has three Apple-marked chips of unknown origin and no chip from PortalPlayer. According to a Wedbush Morgan Securities report, one of the Apple-marked chips is a Samsung ARM processor, occupying the socket formerly supplied by PortalPlayer. Earlier this year, PortalPlayer warned that…
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Lu Bo Lang Restaurant ?????
“Lu Bo Lang”:http://www.lubolang.com/ Restaurant (?????) lu4 bo1 lang2 jiu3 lou2 or literally green wave porch) was one of first restaurant we ever visited in Shanghai. It is right next to the famous “Yu Gardens”:http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-2761741-yu_gardens_shanghai-i and has been host to lots of Presidents most recently Clinton. There is a huge picture there. They are famous for…
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Chinese Dell Dimension 9200
It is so hard to tell with Dell’s what you are really getting because there are really very few reviews and they are outdated as the hardware changes, still for about $1600 you can get a really amazing machine in china from Dell. Dell Dimension 9200 Product Details Here’s an analysis of what you get…
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W22n51.sys BSOD
I tried to upgrade to the latest driver on the Sony site for my VGN-TX140P and there is now something wrong, the Intel Pro Wireless application doesn’t come up and I now will get blue screen of death with a W22n51.sys stop message. Upgrading to the Intel generic driver doesn’t help. The version is 10.5.…
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Nows the time to buy a Dell in China
With Intels Core Duo 2 out and the 975P chipset, its way out in front in terms of performance. However, AMD has just dropped all their processor prices, so if you don’t overclock, at the budget level, get an Athlon X2 3800+ over a E6300 1.83GHz However, if you go up even a little bit,…
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Wifi Tools
OK, here’s the definitive set of tools that I use to make sure a wifi network is working: * “Advanced LAN Scanner”:http://www.radmin.com/products/utilities/lanscanner.php. This is super useful for figuring out what devices and computers are actually on a network. When you get to a new network run it and it will tell you what’s running and…
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Dell Dimension 9200
The Intel Core Duo 2 finally appears in the chinese market as the “Dimension 9200”:http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_9200_cn?c=cn&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn. They have a great “promotion”: right now where if you pay an extra 4000 RMB ($500), you get 2GB of memory and a 20″ monitor. Given that they make them in China, not a bad price and they deliver too!…
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Apple Announcements
“The Mercury News”:http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/15503747.htm notes Apple announced a refresh of their iPods for the fall selling season and unexpectedly, demonstrated their upcoming set top box code named iTV which looked really cool. Here is what you can now get, in rough order of importance: * Downloadable movies. They are going to do full length movies now…
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Small Business Server 2003 SP1 Notes
OK, here are the tidbits that I gathered froma quick read of the “planning”:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/plan/gsg/chptr3a.mspx guide and also there are some SBS enthusiasts like “SBS Rocks”:http://www.sbs-rocks.com/Links.htm and the very useful “Documentation by Task’:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/techinfo/productdoc/topic.mspx for SBS * After you install SBS, you can *not* change the DNS name of the domain, the Netbios name or the computer…
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Motorola KRZR K1
!>http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/motokrzr/images/thumb_motokrzr_k1.jpg!:http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/motokrzr/They are here the next generation RAZR is now available from OEM sites. They are expensive at $400 or so, but they are coming. They are basically slightly slimmer and smaller, but the main technical features are a 2 megapixel camera, EDGE for faster data services, a MicroSD memory card so you can listen to…
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Small Business Server 2003
We got one of these for our office and it is just enough different that it is a little confusing to me. I kind of lost track of how Windows and Exchange worked with Windows NT and Exchange 4.0, so I date myself. Fortunately, “Microsoft”:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/default.mspx has Technet which has lots of free information about it…
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Concierge.com Shanghai Restaurants
“Concierge”:http://www.concierge.com/destination/shanghai/eating is the Conde Nast Traveler web site. Aside from T8, they have some other great recommendations including 3 on the Bund. I’ve been there and while the food was very good, the main thing was the amazing view of the Bund. Other ones that I need to check out are “Creek Kitchen”:http://creekart.cn which is…
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T8
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ANA
Wow, I flew “ANA”:http://www.anaskyweb.com/us/e/travelservice/index.html business class from Shanghai to Tokyo, it sure is luxurious. The seats are nice and firm. (I sure wish United would upgrade theirs) and they reline to just about flat, but 130 degrees down, so not quite flat. Also they have those cool movie on demand systems that Cathay also has.…
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Media-Motor only with Yahoo Sniffer
Talk about an insidious threat, Media Motor hijacks web addresses like “alexa.com”:http://alexa.com by installing as a domain thingy in the registry. It is very hard to find. Ad Aware didn’t find it, Spybot doesn’t find it. Only Yahoo’s toolbar (which is Webroot) found it. The behavious is strange, it gives you pages that sort of…
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LAN sniffing and password recovery
When you are a support guy trying to figure out an unfamiliar LAN that the last guy didn’t document, hyou need some sniffing tools to figure out what is going on: Here are some from “What is the best LAN sniffer?”:http://www.governmentsecurity.org/archive/t7343.html and they recommend: * “Ettercap”:http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/ is a network sniffer and there is a “windows…
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Linksysinfo on Linksys firmware projects
“Linksysinfo”:http://www.linksysinfo.org/portal/forums/forumdisplay.php seems to be the place where all the various firmware projects are discussed. I’ve used DD-WRT and it worked OK, but when I upgraded our WRT54G to HyperWRT Beta 21, it completely bricked it, so beware. Other projects I haven’t tried include Svearsoft, EWRT, HyperWAP. Also there is the MustDie Firmware for WAP54Gs. Another…
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Link WAP54G V3
We have a bunch of these APs Linksys.com – Support/Technical Support/Downloads WAP54G – Wireless-G Access Point . One thing is the use of “hyperwap”:http://www.hyperwap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=53 on it to give it more features. This is a version of Hyperwap based on the 3.04 firmware that is the latest from linksys. Apparently the DD-WRT firmware “works”:http://www.hyperwap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=53&p=2 with both…
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Think Secret
“Think Secret”:http://www.thinksecret.com/ is the top site according to google for Mac rumors. There are a bunch of things happening: * This tuesday, we should see the 2nd generation nano and a wide screen iPod coming out. Wahoo! * “24 inch iMac”:http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0609newimac.html In case you missed it a 24″ iMac is now available for about $2K.…
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Blackberry 8100 Pearl
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Transaction error – Decryption Error
Connie has exactly this problem right now. In reading this long thread, it looks like the keys are somehow out of sync. Folks have tried installing a new version of the desktop manager, deleting all the service books and reregistering and sometimes that fixes it. Others have just tried regenerating these keys. So, I guess…
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popsugar
!>http://popsugar.com/files/images/heather_locklear2_1.jpg!:http://popsugar.com Simon and I had a great conversation abourt where the web is headed. There are an amazing number of vertical sites now like POPSUGAR | Insanely Addictive. Heather and David have been hanging out all summer, and with the end of the summer comes the end of this romance. Heather has decided it’s just…
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iMac get Intel Core 2 Duo
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D-link DI-624 Rev C Firmware
I’ve been using v2.70 for a while, but it doesn’t work with the more advanced encryption schemes. In particularly, it really only works with WEP 128 bit. However, there have been some releases since then so that now with “2.75”:http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16808179~mode=flat I’ve been able to get WPA with AES working. This is all greek to many…