Pain in Eclipse on MacOSX

I couldn't believe that it gave me so much pain just trying to run Eclipse probably on OSX Mountain Lion with Subversion support.  After struggling for hours wondering why the hell I got "Failed to load JavaHL Library", I found a work around here.  But it's already midnight now, and think if setting all these worth my time since I think I will probably do my development on the Windows side instead.

Note to self, reboot that damn external harddisk

For some odd reason, everytime I reboot my MacMini, I have to reboot my external harddisk that contains the MacZone and NTFSStuff Partition.  Really don't know why, but at least it solves the problem as long as I follow this same workflow.

So that's Mountain Lion

After my friends kept saying how awesome OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion was, I finally couldn't resist the temptation, and prepared to give it a try.  So I grab the files, extracted the dmg, and then follow the instruction by use Disk Utility to restore the dmg to an existing Lion partition.

Problem comes, I kept getting verification error.  It turns out that that's ok.  All I need to do is first enable to partition, and then repair the partition.  After that, I got the partition up and running.

Here's the next problem.  I found that for some quick reason, the Capacity of the drive is 424Gb, but the actually usable size is just 8Gb!  Later, I solved the problem by using Apple Disk Utility.  First I slightly shrinked the partition, that forced the partition to recalculate, and finally reclaimed all the capacity of the partition.  Then I enlarged the partition to the original size.  And now I got the full partition capacity.  Along the process, though, I need to do disk repair on the partition a few times.  But eventually it all worked out.

Having enough disk space is so important.  Because when I am out of disk space, crazy thing happens. For instance, I got error message saying that I had no privilege when I tried to change to start up disk, all because there's no space left on my hard disk.

I still haven't found Mountain Lion particularly awesome.  Maybe I just need some more time to get used to it.  But at least I enough the Chinese Handwriting feature.

Giving up on iFiles

After keep trying to make iFiles to work properly, I finally give up on it for a few reasons:

• Can't find a way to sync iFiles setting between devices using DataDeposit
• Only at MOST 2 cloud drive setting is being saved.  Anything more than that will not work.

Instead I found using GoodReader a much better solution to consume files on cloud drives.  Let me see if I can another cloud drive browser as Plan B.

Win8Metro TestBed is RAD

I just tried Win8 Metro TestBed on my iPad and it was pretty amazing.  It works prefect for my case since I have Windows 8 Release Preview install on my closet server computer as yet I still would enjoy using the Windows 8 Metro environment once in a while.  This iPad App gives me a great way to do that.  At first I had a bit problem with the Photo App, but somehow the problem seemed going away.  Now I need to figure out how to make the Music App works with the songs that I added to the music library, but then that's Windows 8's problem, and not this app's problem.

What's wrong with iFiles

I was pretty ticked by an iPad iFiles since it lost most of the account setting I entered (Box.Net SugarSync and so on).  I uninstalled the app after such frustration.

Power sucker

In my last several road trips, I used my iPad (first one, then two, and then the third generation) as GPS, and found that during the 4 to 5 hours of driving, battery life fell respectably 50%.  This afternoon, however, I tried another approach by tethering to my new Galaxy Nexus phone.  I found that that iPad battery dropped 60%+ even though my trip had shorten to 3 hours.  Of that top of that my Nexus phone was also sucking up batteries.  So at the end, I found it a very bad idea using tethering thing way.  Better directly leave the microSim in iPad instead.