I use the excellent Menu Meters to view some important system information, including network traffic. I noticed this in the popup menu tonight:
That’s right. It’s 30% faster than my wired network.
I never thought the cable would be the bottleneck. Time to purchase some gigabit ethernet cards for stuff…
Apache • Scripture • Café Del Mar • Volume 8
Fri 29th Jun 2007
With my new machine, it’s time to consider how I’m going to store data, and how I’m going to back it up.
One thing I’ve wanted to do is have most of my data stored within an svn repository, so that I can have revision control on all of my documents. I’m not too sure how well this would work, since I’d have to remember to keep checking stuff in and out.
Perhaps I’ll wait until Leopard with Time Machine arrives. Then I should be able to have revision control on all files, automatically, each time I save.
In the meantime, I’ve set up a folder inside my Home directory that is called .SVN, and I’ll put all of my subversion repositories for my coding projects into there. Have considered having an external svn server, and might go this route. That way, I’d only be able to check changes in when at home, or over the internet. Might not be too useful, since I’m planning to spend lots of time coding in local Cafés, where I only have port 80 access.
Perhaps I should make an ssh tunnel through port 80 at my home, so I can access my network anywhere, regardless of this restriction.
Well, my MacBook Pro finally arrived. Sorry for not blogging about it earlier, but I had to play with it, and get a heap of stuff installed.
I’ve found a heap of cool things to do with Laptop specific things, but nothing is cooler than this:
MarcoPolo, which automatically chooses the Location (an OS X specific method of allowing you to have sets of settings which change depending on, well, your location), according to a user defined set of rules. Not only can you change the location, but you can also have user defined actions. So, for instance, I can have it set so that it mounts my school home directory when I get to school, and automatically mount my iTunes library server directory when I get home.
You can use more than just WiFi signals to determine ‘where’ you are, such as what other devices are connected, what IP address you have, and what Bluetooth devices are nearby.
The only thing I haven’t figured out is how to automatically change the Firefox proxy, which I can do with a manual action, but not yet automatically.
This is why I love OS X.
