On the 28th February 2010 I celebrated my 23rd birthday, I am now officially old.
My Birthday…
March 9th, 2010Working for a control room…
February 26th, 2010I have to say it’s never dull here, in case you don’t know, I work for a control room, we basically monitor those pesky cords people have with the little orange triangle at the bottom, we’re the people you get through to when you pull one.
I do enjoy my job, even through sometimes the shifts are a bugger, but you get used to that pretty quickly and you have to kinda arrange your life around them, but I do get some free time. I’ve heard things you could never make up but some people manage to get themselves into such tricky situations that you have deal with efficiently and quickly; snap decisions are something we do very well.
I remember my first shift here, it was a night shift, starting at 9.30pm until 6.30am – I really didn’t know what to expect. I was so naive back then.
I really should write a book, the triffid woman sticks in my head and I’ll tell you the full story soon.
Paralells Desktop!
February 23rd, 2010I love this program, I’ve been using the trial version for a few hours now and it is great. It lets you run virtually an Operating System within your Mac.
I’ve got XP running in coherence mode which means I can effectively just use all my Windows programs with my mac and they show up on the screen!
And the best thing is, I didn’t have to reinstall Windows XP it’s using the BootCamp Partition that I had already installed!
I love this program it really does make life a lot easier!
It’s 59.99 and I will be buying it!
OSX and T-Mobile Broadband Modems
February 21st, 2010If you have OSX Snow Leopard and want to install your T-Mobile Broadband Modem on it be wary. I had a problem today which is fairly hard to solve in the beginning but you can repair the problem caused by it.
This problem specifically affects the T-Mobile Broadband Modem: ZTE MF626.
When the installer has completed you will notice that you can connect to the internet but you won’t be able to access many of the functions in system preferences, also your mac won’t boot into Snow Leopard. The problem is caused by the ZTE installer replacing a core system file (libcurl.4.dylib), that file is pretty much used by everything; including the boot process of your mac.
Luckily we can restore this file once the installer is completed and your mac will be as good as new.
DO THE FOLLOWING BEFORE YOU INSTALL THE SOFTWARE!
The Fix
Firstly we need to reveal all our hidden files we can do this via terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
This will let you find the folder: usr/lib/
Make sure you’ve copied that: libcurl.4.dylib into another directory before we continue.
Now you’ve got a copy of the above file go ahead and install the T-Mobile software.
Once it’s installed we need to find the: usr/lib directory again, simply copy and paste the libcurl.4.dylib file in and you’ll be good to go.
If you didn’t copy it, or can’t find it, you can use mine click here to download it.
Just for the sake of neatness we’ll re-hide those pesky hidden files by doing the following again in terminal.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder
That’s it, and you should be good to go.
Macbook day came early…
February 19th, 2010I decided to go and get my new MacBook today. I have to say that I am completely in love with it. I love OSX Snow Leopard and everything just seems to work on it.
I’ve transferred my iTunes library all two-thousand songs of it, and I’ve started to transfer all my documents. I haven’t got around to loading up Windows yet, but I will eventually.
I’m in love with my Mac, she needs a name though, suggestions are welcome!
New design: Part One
February 17th, 2010As you can see I’ve started to make some changes to the site, I think it’s looking better already, I have thinking tiny me, and some nice tribal work going on. I’m gonna add some more things as I get them done, so look out for a few more things coming up.
Just a quick update…
February 13th, 2010Just a quick update with a pic of me!
Three weeks until MacBook Day!
February 7th, 2010About three or four weeks ago I decided that on the 26th I would leave the Windows Family and move into Mac’s Welcoming arms, I set a day for it and I’m leaving you Windows. I will still need Windows, there a load of lighting tools that I cannot use on my Mac so I’ll be running both VitualBox and Bootcamped Windows Vista on it, I’m staying away from Windows 7, and sticking with Vista.
MacBook day is the 26th February 2010, I have a feeling that this date will go down in history as the day I turned my back on Windows, I’ll still need it, just not as much!
I’m getting a White unibody MacBook.
Protected: My Depression
January 24th, 2010Happy New Year
January 1st, 2010Happy new year to you all!
I must admit I really don’t see the point of celebrating the new year, it seems a bit pointless, it’s only another day in my opinion. Anyway we’ll see what 2010 brings to the table.