We got Private Parts in the mail today, and we are watching it now. Kelly is importing pictures into iPhoto on her Powerbook from the other computer. I decided that SPAM was becoming a serious problem for me so I decided to move from Outlook Express 6 to Mozilla Mail 1.3. Mozilla Mail implements a Bayesian mail filter to learn what SPAM is and filter it out whenever you get it. I just finished importing all my mail from Outlook Express and have managed to trim down my Inbox from about 220 messages to about 4. Plus when I finally make the move to Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop I will be able to export everything to Evolution or keep Mozilla Mail.
I was sitting in the bathroom today and trying to figure out if I load Mandrake on my print server how do I share a printer out to a Windoze machine? Is it done thru Samba? Hmmmmmm. I finally managed to get our Epson Stylus Photo 820 shared out to the Powerbook. I had to install Gimp-print to find the right drivers to be able to print from a Samba share. And yesterday I was playing with Powerbook trying to test the battery in it to see if we are getting decent life out of it. I have been reading about a lot of Powerbook/iBook owners who have degraded performance with the release of 10.2.4, so we ran the battery down yesterday, and charged it all the way back up. I found a perl script to run that gave the current parameters of the battery including the capacity, amps, current charge. Here it is…..
#!/bin/bash
[ -x /usr/sbin/ioreg ] &&
/usr/sbin/ioreg -p IODeviceTree -n “”battery”” -w 0|
sed -ne ‘/| *{/,/| *}/ {
s/^[ |]*//g
/^[{}]/!p
}’ |
awk ‘/Battery/ {
gsub(“[{}()”]”,””, $3)
gsub(“,”,” “,$3)
split($3,ct,” “)
# extract flag value and convert to hex
sub(“Flags=”,””,ct[2])
str=sprintf(“Flags=%d/0x%03x”,ct[2],ct[2])
sub(“Flags=[0-9]*”,str,$3)
# get max and current charge levels
sub(“.*=”,””,ct[4])
sub(“.*=”,””,ct[5])
printf(“%s [%.1f%%]
“,tolower($3),100*ct[5]/ct[4])
}’
# EOF
At first I thought that we were having battery trouble because we only had about a hour and 15 minutes beforewe were on stand-by battery.Then I changed the Energy Saver settings and turned down the screen brightnessso now we are an hour and 15 minutes into the run down with 61% of battery left, so at the current settings itwould seem that we have at least 3 hours or battery life.
Everybody to the Limit. For all you Strong Bad fans out there.
We were pretty lazy today, we didn’t get out of bed until almost 12 today.The alarm went off at 8, but neitherone of us could drag our lazy asses out of bed.So we ended up going to the gym at about 2:30 or so, then afterthat we had to go to Wal-Mart to pick up some quarts of oil for the truck.Because we couldn’t find strawsat Wal-Mart we went over to Target to get some.We saw John over there but he didn’t want to stay and talk with ushe must have had other things to do. 🙂
We have to drop the truck off in the morning at Liberty Toyota to get the thermostat and the oil changed, sowe will actually have to get up in the morning.
Private Parts is over now, so we are going to watch Real World/ Road Rules Challenge followed by Moster Garage.
