Archive for October, 2006
1. start up items
start up configuration is now stored at: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
/System/Library/StartupItems (for system startup items) or /Library/StartupItems (for locally-installed startup items).
2. root user is disabled, but you still can access root user, just type
sudo su -
3. use Synergy for sharing your keyboard and mouse. and your key mapping changes from xp
windows key - Option key
Alt key - command key
4. to share windows folder, use “connect to server” under Finder -> go menu
smb://host/shareName
To be continued.
October 25th, 2006
After a few days of research, finally I settled on the plan of my first family cruise, it is a 7 nights East Caribbean on Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) Jewel, the selection process was pretty hard, since we wanted both good itinerary and good price, after reviewed the profiles of more than 10 ships on cruisecritic.com, it is a no brainer to take the recommendation:
Best All-Around First-Time Experience: Norwegian Jewel These newest and largest ships in NCL’s Freestyle Cruising fleet offer a unique experience that’s more like that of a land-based resort and less like a traditional cruise than any other, allowing passengers to eat where, when and with whom they want in the cruise industry’s widest range of restaurants.
since Jane has to stay at home with Owen, it will be just me and my parents.
Here is the itinerary:
- Nov 26 Leaving Miami
- Nov 27 At sea
- Nov 28 San Juan, (day trip to visit old San Juan)
- Nov 29 Antigua, (take the famous Antigua Eco-Adventure tour as touted on BBC)
- Nov 30 St Thomas, USVI (half day trip to St John’s beautiful beaches, of course include Trunk Beach)
- Dec 01 At sea
- Dec 02 Great Stirrup key (this is a private island owned by NCL)
- Dec 03 Back to Miami
Before I do anything else, the first homework for me is to make plan to attack the good food, since we have only 7 nights, but we have 10 different style restaurants on the boat! (some of them do have “cover charge”) 
October 15th, 2006
Since we never got a HOnda car in our garage, so I paid some attention to the new annoucement of the new Honda model, which costs 3-4 million, the new model is a not a regular car, it is plane..check out the introduction here
October 4th, 2006
As a Yahoo shareholder, sometimes I felt very guilty but I just cannot help using and promoting the product or service from its competitor - Google. Today’s subject is google RSS/Atom feed reader.
One line explaination of feed reader for dummies: A feed reader is like an email reader for lazy people (like me) to read website’s update in one program without going to the individual websites.
If you don’t have a RSS reader yet and don’t want to spend money to buy a standalone software, google reader might be a good choice for you. You can easily subscribe to any RSS (or Atom) feed enabled websites, include my blogs (just type my blog name in the add subscription box).
Google reader is lightweight, it even comes with keyboard shortcut, neat!
October 2nd, 2006