Posted by Doug
Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:16:46 GMT
From a suggestion on #caboose I’ve snagged my wife’s 65cm exercise ball as my desk chair. I sit at my desk a lot and struggle with poor posture and general lower back pain.
The ball is quite fun. I’m such a fidgety person, I can’t stop bouncing! If you want to setup an iChat video you can see me bounce. I’m definitely sitting up straight. After a little over six hours on it yesterday, my back is definitely feeling sore. Not aching like I’m out of position sore; but sore like my muscles are feeling the exercise.
I’ve still got my regular desk chair, but when I sit in it I immediately start to slouch. After a few minutes I get pretty aggravated when the casters start to make ruts in the chair matt and I have to keep scooting to re-adjust my position. I’m really liking the ball!
Posted in House, Hardware | 5 comments
Posted by Doug
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:33:48 GMT
I’ve been a big fan of Darwin Ports for a while. It’s a relatively painless way to install open source software on your Mac. It borrows heavily from the FreeBSD ports. Gentoo is also based on this type of a system. Basically, rather than packing up binaries and offering them for download and distribution, Darwin Ports packages up instructions on how to download and compile applications nicely for the Mac.
I was able to successfully migrate my /opt tree with all my custom built ports in them over to my new Macbook Pro. However, all those binaries are PowerPC binaries. They all run under Rosetta emulation. So my blindingly 4x faster Macbook Pro runs all my Ruby on Rails tests at the same speed as my 1.33Ghz G4.
The solution appears to be mv /opt /opt.ppc and rebuild all the ports from scratch. I’ll post more when that’s all done.
Posted in Software, Mac OS X, Hardware | 1 comment
Posted by Doug
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:13:46 GMT
Oh happy day! My Macbook Pro has finally arrived! Migration from my old Powerbook to the Macbook Pro took about an hour and a half. Everything went really smoothly. I lost my VPN configs and had to redo those by hand. I’m not sure what all else I lost. Definitely some registration codes. I need to spend some more time checking stuff out; particularly the stuff from Darwin Ports and running my Rails tests. More later…
Posted in Hardware | 1 comment
From a suggestion on #caboose I’ve snagged my wife’s 65cm exercise ball as my desk chair. I sit at my desk a lot and struggle with poor posture and general lower back pain.
