Monthly Archives: May 2006

Motion Detection

I found a cool app called MacSaber. The only problem is that the code it uses to read the motion data is wrong. It’s a closed source app too so I can’t fix it. Oh well, at least it’s a … Continue reading

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Isaac starts eating again

Since having gastro, Isaac hasn’t been eating more than 100ml of formula each feed. This was starting to worry us so Bree took him to the doctor. He started on “anti-refulx” (ie. thickened) formula yesterday and he loves it. He … Continue reading

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SMC Update

What is an SMC? I don’t know! The update seems to make the machine more aggressively respond to high temperatures. Using CoreDuoTemp, I am observing the use of lower frequencies to help drop the temperature. The fans also seem to … Continue reading

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Tempted by a MacBook

Damn. Less than 3 months old and my machine is effectively obsolete :( To my eye, there are only 2 things different about the MacBooks. The screen is smaller and the video card is crap. The smaller screen is something … Continue reading

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Eve doesn't have a dodgy CPU

While looking at the whine issue, I stumbled across some guy (cryptonome?) in a forum who claimed that Mac OS X wasn’t taking full advantage of the Core Duo, specifically SpeedStep. He was trying to write a kernel module to … Continue reading

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Emily Blows Chunks (and other weekend illnesses)

Emily picked up a gastro bug from kindy again. It hit Friday night (around 2am). Emily threw up twice. We had been out at a Thai place for my dad’s birthday so the puke contained all sorts of strange things. … Continue reading

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Hacking my Bank

Some time ago, Virgin Money put a crappy on-screen keyboard on their login page. The idea is that you have to click with the mouse and you can’t type with the keyboard. There’s some obfuscation done to try and ensure … Continue reading

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Relay for Life

Last night I did my first relay for life. My family has been doing it for 5 years now but I’ve always been interstate or unavoidably occupied. There was around 30 family members in the team and we had a … Continue reading

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Eve does Windows

It was a hassle but I finally got Windows running on Eve. I found out that even though Apple tells you otherwise, you can install and run Windows XP SP1 just fine but there are some instabilities (eg. hang on … Continue reading

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Make rEFIt and safe sleep play well together

I like the idea of having a boot manager, hence rEFIt. I also like safe sleep (can you even turn it off?). There’s just one problem: they don’t play well together. The basic problem is that when you turn the … Continue reading

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