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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Homing from Work By Diana Hsieh @ 12:15 AM Paul sent me his "urban word of the day" for April 25th. It's too perfect not to post: Homing from Work Using work time and resources for personal tasks. See reverse telecommuting Busey: Steve, did you download those episodes of Entourage I told you about? Myers: I told you Gary, my home Internet connection sucks ass. I am going to download and burn them at the office while I am homing from work. Ha! Labels: Computers, Language E-mail Diana Hsieh    PermaLink    Comments (Popup)    BloggerThis Sunday, April 13, 2008 MacBook Pro Sleep Problems By Diana Hsieh @ 12:54 AM Hooray! I've finally fixed my MacBook Pro's problems with waking up from sleep! Basically, about one time in ten, my Mac would only partly wake up from a state of sleep. Nothing would revive it, so I'd have to reboot. That was very annoying, and multiple web searches over the past few months offered no help whatsoever until I discovered this page on how to change the sleep mode. So now my Mac is set to sleep mode 0 (i.e. the "old style sleep mode, with RAM powered on while sleeping, safe sleep disabled, and super-fast wake") instead of the currently standard sleep mode 3 (i.e. the new sleep mode where "RAM is powered on while sleeping, but RAM contents are also written to disk before sleeping" so that the machine hibernates if power if totally drained). The lack of ability to slip into hibernation as a backup isn't a problem for me, since I never fully run down my battery while in sleep mode. Plus, I like that the computer sleeps and wakes faster than before. Most importantly, however, my computer has woken up perfectly from sleep for a few weeks now, with just one funky exception. Until it began working properly, I didn't realize how much the constant nagging worry that my computer might not wake properly wore on me! Now I feel liberated! Labels: Computers E-mail Diana Hsieh    PermaLink    Comments (Popup)    BloggerThis Saturday, March 01, 2008 Printer Recommendations By Diana Hsieh @ 3:02 PM I am thinking of buying a laser printer. It absolutely must: print only in black and white connect wirelessly print double sided Any recommendations (or anti-recommendations) of particular printers -- or manufacturers? I've been very happy with my HP inkjets over the years, but their wireless capacity seems to be less than stellar. Labels: Computers E-mail Diana Hsieh    PermaLink    Comments (Popup)    BloggerThis Tuesday, February 05, 2008 Dark Castle By Diana Hsieh @ 11:02 PM I've never been much for computer games, but back in my early teens, I spent tons of time playing Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle on my little Mac SE and Mac Classic. Now, thanks to TUAW, I recently discovered that a new version, Return to Dark Castle, is supposed to be forthcoming shortly. It's in color, with all its characteristic sound effects, and includes not all the old levels from the prior two games. To get a glimpse, you can check out the just-released trailer. Apparently, the game has been in development for some time, so I can only hope that it will be released sooner rather than later. Otherwise I might just explode. Labels: Computers E-mail Diana Hsieh    PermaLink    Comments (Popup)    BloggerThis

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