Archive for December, 2008

iPhone Software Deficiencies

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
  • Can’t sort or search emails;
  • Takes two extra steps to search contacts (due to lack of physical keyboard);
  • Can’t sync notes or task list;
  • Slow and spotty 3G connection (probably AT&T problem);

VMWare Fusion Crash

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Ever since I upgraded to V 2.0.1, I have experienced 3 times of complete system freeze of my OS X. I’m not 100% sure but VMWare is only program upgraded right before those system crashes. And it always happened in the Unity mode. Maybe the Unity mode is particularly unstable…

System vulnerability and testing

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Apparently toddlers are the best QA engineers. Our house has one vulnerability and it didn’t take our 2.5 year-old very long to find it – she locked the door to the garage. And since all my tools and the garage remotes are all locked in, there’s no way to get into the garage anymore. Usually there’s a back door, but in this case it is an old house and we didn’t bother to get the side door re-keyed.

Fortunately it didn’t happen in the rush hour of morning and she didn’t lock herself or someone even younger into it. It could be a lot worse. In this case, all it takes is to go knock the neighbor’s door and borrow and small flat-headed screwdriver. Thanks, neighbor!

Needless to say, I now have a small screwdriver in the living room, just in case next she locks one of the other three similar doors in the house, during funny hours.