The MacBook Pro 15″ is nice, but to be perfect, it would need :
a higher resolution screen. 1440×900 is too low, 1600×1050 would do better. And antiglare please. I’m buying a laptop, not a TV set.
3 or 4 USB ports, not 2.
a SSD (say 128 Gb) and a hard-disc (500 Gb).
The 17″ fits the bill for the screen and the USB ports, but I want a laptop, not an anchor. For the double disc, I will have to hack it myself with one of these disc-in-DVD-slot kits. My plan was to buy about end of this year, but I might want a bit to see if these aluminium thingies will evolve.
Due to some incompatibilities with software I really need (GnuPG support in Mail), I may have to wait for Snow Leopard as well.
Crisis or not, I don’t care, sailing is too much fun to care about this Swine Flu / Financial crisis / Tamiflu business holdup. My A-Cat Flyer 2005 is sold, and I already got the next one. One mast on top of this barebone and let me fly !
My home loudspeakers (MB Quart 280) are slowly dying. One of the tweeters makes strange noise, they are about 20 years old anyway, so they deserve a replacement. I have studied the market a lot. One key is of course WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor), so I settled my choice on a 2.1 system, with two floor-standing modern panel speakers, plus a sub-woofer hidden behind the TV set. Continue Reading »
J’avais un peu souci avant d’y aller. Ce serait formatté, propret, huilé, bref : du pop à succès. Eh bien non, ce fut du grand spectacle, avec émotions et très prenant. Au beau milieu du concert, Chris Martin et son équipe descendent sur le terrain avec 2 guitares, traversent la foule, montent sur un podium de 4m2, et entonnent quelques airs sympa (y-compris Billie Jean), le tout sous la pluie battante. Viva la Vida, c’est aussi un bon antidote contre la crise, à consommer sans modération.
The IOC decided not to grant sailing an 11th medal for the 2012 Olympic Games. This means that there will be no catamaran in the 2012 Olympic Games.
These people should watch the news, they will then find out how cool multi-hulls are. Look at the pictures of Alinghi from my friend Claude. Take a seat first, amazing stuff.
I’m no big fan of commercial database product. Oracle is a complicated beast, and I have never completely understood why big companies use such a complicated and expensive product to store small databases. A DBA friend of mine said that 90% of the databases he has seen in the last 10 years could be done in SQLite, 9% in MySQL, and only the remaining 1% would need Oracle. Maybe his assertion is a little bit exaggerated, well, he’s an Oracle DBA with more than 10 years experience, so he must be right in some way.
The MacBook Pro 15″ is nice, but to be perfect, it would need :
Comme en 2008 et 2009, voici le calendrier des jours fériés 2010 en Suisse pour iCal en format ics.
My home loudspeakers (MB Quart 280) are slowly dying. One of the tweeters makes strange noise, they are about 20 years old anyway, so they deserve a replacement. I have studied the market a lot. One key is of course WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor), so I settled my choice on a 2.1 system, with two floor-standing modern panel speakers, plus a sub-woofer hidden behind the TV set. 
J’avais un peu souci avant d’y aller. Ce serait formatté, propret, huilé, bref : du pop à succès. Eh bien non, ce fut du grand spectacle, avec émotions et très prenant. Au beau milieu du concert, Chris Martin et son équipe descendent sur le terrain avec 2 guitares, traversent la foule, montent sur un podium de 4m2, et entonnent quelques airs sympa (y-compris Billie Jean), le tout sous la pluie battante. Viva la Vida, c’est aussi un bon antidote contre la crise, à consommer sans modération.
