It’s been a while since I last posted… Many things have happened since the Rocket Launch like the Long Beach Grand Prix, backpacking at Big Pine Lakes, vacation in Hawaii, a new iPhone 3G (currently being sent back to Apple… more on that later. Maybe), School starting (Java class… ugh), and now I finally choose to blag about the least interesting of them all.
It was on the recommendation of my counselor that I join the Computer Science club to benefit my transfer application. Curious to see the difference between my high school Computer Club–which turned out to be an assortment of pasty, pimply, and stale dorks who only played computer games, and the City College Computer Science Club. I had hopes that I’d be able to get together with some eager students and collaborate on fun programming projects. Within the first few minutes of the first meeting I realized this was not the case.
For about an hour the advisor (a middle-aged bachelor) was leading an argument about what to do with the Gaming Club members that want to partake in the open-for-all Computer Science Club LAN parties. I was thoroughly dissatisfied by the end of the meeting. The only thing that was established was that the Gaming Club is the Computer Science Club archnemesis. Needless to say, I probably won’t be going back. It was a lame waste of my time.
So this is how things are supposed to work.
It’s been a while that I have had my eyes on the MacBook. Fortunately, the retarded CompUSA decided to go out of business, and I got in on the liquidation. All Macs were 15% off, which is something that never happens. At this point in time, their stock was quite low, though I managed to pick up the black MacBook with only two remaining.
As a Linux enthusiast and Microsoft System Specialist, I have been continuously exposed to different environments–including their flaws and benefits. I side with Linux on this issue because things tend to work the way I want them to work. Windows tends to not work the way I want it to work, often leading to performance issues or BSoD (and Apple is aware of this: see SMB Shares icon).
With Mac being a BSD UNIX OS, strikingly similar to Linux, I see many benefits of using it. For one, the software provided is generally better than the software available for Linux, though software available for Linux tends to be ported to Mac quite often. In addition to being UNIX, the internets tend to work better, like such as, formula1.com. On Linux, this site was slow and all the features were somewhat confusing to navigate around. In Mac, it is displayed probably how it was intended to be displayed. And it is fast.
Some might ask, do you regret spending the approximate value of your left kidney to purchase a MacBook?
No. My kidneys are self regenerating.
Thank you for reading. Peace out lil’ scouts.
I’ve been having some issues with my computer overheating, so I decided to retrofit a cooling duct over the CPU. As seen in the picture, the SBCC card stock map provides an excellent platform for controlling the flow of heated air. With a fan on the back panel, cold air is taken from outside, sucked through the CPU heat sink, then exhausted out the back. It should also be noted that heated air rising from the chipset heat sink is also being displaced. After doing some analysis of temperature statistics, I can conclusively say that this contraption works.
And the data (all units in degrees Celsius; rounded average across ten data samples):
Before: 47 (idle), 58 (compiling gcc)
After: 37 (idle), 51 (compiling gcc)
It should also be noted that with the case side in place, temperatures rise significantly. For this reason, I leave the sides off at all times. The risk is the attraction of dust and of course, accidental damage to internal components.
Ah, and take a look at the ATX power connector to fan supply. It took some failed attempts to match the correct (mismatched colors, see black and yellow wires connecting to the red and black wires). Failed attempts involve shorting the entire power supply, effectively shutting off the power supply.
While writing this post, CPU temperatures have ranged from 46 to 48.5, and that is running firefox (bad with CPU utilization), emacs, and amaroK.
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