This is what happen..!

VNC to OSX

I always had problem connecting to my home computer running OSX from a Windows computer. VNC was slow, it didn’t work too well.

I tried TightVNC today and it solved all my problems. It’s fast and work as good as screen sharing on OSX.

I’m just happy to report this, you may carry on! :-)

Twitter

I installed Tweetie on my iPhone. I can only say that it is way better than Twitteriffic.

I was using the free version of Twitteriffic, it might not compare with Tweetie since the last one is a paid app.

Ubuntu on my Vaio P

I’ve installed Ubuntu Linux on my Vaio P.  It’s quite easy with Ubuntu 9.04 Beta.  Graphic card, wireless, some function keys, hibernate and suspend works out of the box.  Some tweak are needed, but everything works quite ok.

Here is what needs to be tweak for it to work.  First thing, graphic card, you need 2 tweaks for it to work in native 1600x768 resolution.

Grub, you need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst modify the line beginning with “kernel” and append this last command to boot in 1600x768x16bpp:

vga=0x367

Don’t forget to update grub:

# sudo update-grub

Then you need to add the following line to your /etc/X11/xorgs.conf file.  In the device section, right under “Identifier”:

driver       “fbdev”

Now reboot and you will have native resolution.  It wont be a speed daemon, but it’s really usable.  You can play low res flash video full screen without any skipping.

Update Sony Vaio P

It’s now been almost 3 weeks since I got my Vaio P.  It’s really a great little laptop.  I once had a Asus EeePC 701 and this little dude kicks his ass.  Ok, It’s not a great comparaison, I know, first gen Netbook vs a brand new one.  But this is only what I have used.

I did try to install Linux on it, but the Vesa resolution isn’t that great, it’s slow as hell!  I might as well use Vista.  I’ve thought about using Windows 7, they say it’s faster, but the beta will only work until August.  After that, you need to reinstall Vista or a new version of Windows 7.  Since this is not confirm or anything, I might as well give Vista a try.

Right now, it work ok.  I’ve found how to customize it so it feel good.  Been using it with Cygwin and Console2.  I’ve also installed Google Chrome.  I’ve been using a text editor that looks and feel like Textmate on my Mac.  It’s called E.  With all those Apps, It’s good to use.  And I’m almost not using my MBP anymore.  Well at least for day to day browsing.

Oh, and it’s a great laptop to bring with you anywhere when you’re on duty call.

Creating a USB key boot drive

Like every good unix person, I like to run some flavor of Linux on my PC computer.  So since I got the cool Vaio P, I wanted to try the lates and greates Ubuntu release.  I didn’t want to trash my Windows partition or repartition everything to make some space for Linux.

Here comes the Ubuntu USB key.

It’s all specified on there website.  You can make your key in Linux with dd, you can use some other program on Windows.  Well I didn’t have a Linux computer, Cygwin with dd didn’t work for me and I had a shit load of problems with OS X.  Here’s how I finally made it work on OS X.

These are my notes.

1. Plug your usb key and verify which drive it is.
   • diskutil list
2. Unmount your usb key.
   • diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
3. Copy your image file on the key.
   • dd if=image.file of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m
4. Eject your usb key.
   • diskutil eject /dev/disk1
5. Here you go, you’re done.

Sony Vaio serie P

I got a new gadget this week. A white Vaio serie P, netbook computer, errr, Lifestyle PC as Sony calls them.  It’s a 8.9 inch computer with a really great 1600x768 screen.  The screen is so small that it’s sometime hard to use.  When it’s sitting on a table, it’s not that bad.  Else, you need to crank up the font dpi to 120 so it’s comfortable.

The bad thing, it’s that it comes with Vista Home edition installed.  And it can suck the life out of this little wonder pc.  People say that Windows 7 is great on it.  But it’s still in Beta, and I can’t come to install it and be force this summer to remove it and comeback to Vista.  I’ll probably be getting it when it officially comes out, but until then, I’ll have to work the way it is right now.  I might give Linux a try when everything will be working with it.

Other than that, I don’t really have a review for it. I’m still working to install all my needed programs and everything.  I already had to do a software restore on it since it wasn’t really responding to my last install.

I’ll keep you all posted on my setup next time that I write about it.