neoneoism

I moved house and I am without my beloved broadband. I got myself a three modem… but to be honest.. it sucks. The connection is iffy, the speed is awful (it is meant to be a 3mb connection, but I am yet to see anything over 1mb) most of the time it runs at about 15-30KB.

I am going to get a land line and real broadband as soon as possible. From the looks of things I will be going with UTV. If anyone has a better suggestion, poke me.

Having been working on a lot of code recently for a site, I got sick of using smultron. It is a good editor… just not what I remember vim being. I found a good native port of vim for mac and it is like the good old days

There are a few small issues though.. mostly to do with the .vimrc file. I used to have one with all my settings and everything just the way I like it… damned if I can find it though. I have been trying to rebuild it over the last couple of days and it has been quite fun actually.

secrets is an app for changing hidden settings in os X. I found this the other day while bored, and I was able to change some things that where bugging me… and some I never thought of. The reason I was looking to change settings was the fact that itunes 8 no longer allows you to hide the genre of music while browsing. Now fixed

Another thing I found was the ability to change the dock to a 2d version.. which, in my opinion looks better than the 3d shelf. 

2d dock

There are many other settings to change.. and, as of now, I have not fully gone through them.

The speakers on my ibook died a few days ago (the earphone jack works fine)… the thought that I should be replacing her has been milling around my mind for a while now. While it is not as fast as most modern laptops.. I still feel attached to her and don’t want to say good bye just yet. 

I have had this ibook for a little over three and a half years now, and.. ignoring the speakers, it is in perfect working condition. I only notice its age when I am streaming some of the higer quality media from the net.. or some flash based sites, but I can live without these things.. seeing as I have a Mac Pro sitting on my desk downstairs. 

I am thinking that I should do a clean install and use yuki (her name) for writing and general use when I am not at home.. ot just don’t feel like going to the mac pro to work. 

One the subject of writing. I have been trying to get back into it recently. I have always had a love / hate relenship with my writing… insofar as I love the act of writing.. and I hate everything I write. I posted some stuff I wrote on my wow guilds forums… not sure if I would ever post anything on the net for all to see….