Nicole and I did a bunch of packing tonight. I got my closet, minus my cloths, all packed up along with all my “junk” drawers in the bedroom. Nicole has already packed a bunch of stuff. Tonight she took down everything on the walls and packed it. I think we are making good progress and if we keep it up next week should be a lot less stressful. The apartment however has become difficult to traverse.
Ugh moving is not fun!
– Jeremy
So I did get up early this morning and went to Home Depot for the screw driver I needed. I got the old memory out, 2 sticks of 512 meg Samsung RAM, and installed the new RAM, 2 sticks for 1g Corsair RAM. I have to say it’s pretty cool to look at your system stats and see that you have 1.6 gigs of RAM to spare.
Just for fun I opened all the applications in my dock and I still had 500 megs of RAM to spare
– Jeremy
I ended up working ate tonight so I didn’t have much time to mess with the Macbook. At lunch I did download a new FTP program I want to play with. It looks very promising.
I tried to install the new RAM in the Macbook, but apparently I don’t own a Phillips 00 size screw driver. I am going to try to get up early, go to Home Depot and pick one up.
– Jeremy
I subscribe to a daily email from Beliefnet called Daily Buddhist Wisdom and today’s subject was: The Dalai Lama on Death. Now, if you are like myself, the thought of death is pretty unpleasant thought, but it’s a fact of life that some day we will all slip in to the great beyond. (I am not here to argue about religion. I think we as a species have done enough fighting over it already.)
“When you die you go alone, and the only light to accompany you derives from the spiritual practice or positive acts you have done.” -The Dalai Lama
Just something to meditate on while going about our daily tasks.
– Jeremy
Ok so I’ve had the Macbook for 4 full days and this evening I finally got down to business. Beyond the normal surf the internet, check my mail, and listen to music stuff the main thing I do with a computer is build websites. It’s not only my job, but also my hobby. So I found a program called Coda that I thought would be a great coding environment. It’s a little pricey at $79, but they offer a 2 week trial. So I figured I would give it a try before I plunked down my $79.
Tonight I decided to do some work on some tools I have been building for my next project. I fired up Coda and started hacking. Coda is nice since it has an FTP program built right in to the program. That being said however I found it a little tricky to use. I had a decent first experience with Coda, but I might look else where for my needs. I have some other suggestions that at least need to try since they are free.
– Jeremy
I ordered some more RAM for the Macbook. It cam with 1 gig of RAM and my plan all along was to upgrade it to 2 gigs. These days 1 gig of RAM is acceptable 2 gigs is preferable. At least on a windows machine. It only cost me about $80 and since I am fairly comfortable working on computers I will install the RAM myself.
– Jeremy
