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20″ Apple Cinema Display color over saturated

eip — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:32:19 +0000

I have a 20″ Apple Cinema Display (ACD) purchased (actually received as a gift but never mind that) around 2003 and a MacBook Pro 15″ (MBP) purchased around 2006. Both of them has been calibrated using Eye-One Display 2 with 6500k white point, 2.2 Gamma, and 120 lum (+/- a little). For some reason, the colors on ACD appear to be over saturated particularly yellow and red while the MBP is a lot more natural. If the images look “right” on the ACD, they are flat on the MBP (and monitors/LCDs attached to PCs). When the images look right on everything else the ACD bleeds yellow and red, and appear too dark.

What gives?! I wonder if I can use a slighly cooler white point to achieve a correct display?!

Update 04/16/2009: Several posting in an Apple forum said that closing the MBP screen will produce better result. I tried it with only ok result — color saturation is better but still not completely satisfied.

SVN on Leopard

eip — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:06:00 +0000

I tried to set up Subversion on my MacBook Pro running OSX Leopard 10.5.6 by following Mark Kirby’s blog entry. Overall, his instructions were excellent if you plan on sticking with the pre-installed Subversion 1.4.4. However, if you want to update to the latest Subversion version (1.5.4 at time of this writing), you will need to keep the following in mind:

1. Apache2′s mod_dav_svn.so was complied with Subversion 1.4.4 in mind.

Instead of:
/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so

Use:

/opt/subversion/lib/svn-apache/mod_dav_svn.so

2. It is probably just readability issue on Mark’s blog, but module name and path should be on the same line.

Instead of:
LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so DAV svn SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn

Use:

LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so DAV svn SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn

Microsoft Taps Jerry Seinfeld As Vista Pitchman

eip — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:12:20 +0000

I like Jerry, but will still don’t like Vista. There, I said it.

Update: Now that I’ve seen the ads, I am not even sure how they’re suppose to change Microsoft’s image beside making them look even worst than before. What a waste of money.

Update: Jerry is no more. Microsoft is pulling the plug on those dumb commercials. Instead, they will be targeting those “Get A Mac” ads directly. Look Bill, I am no ad-master, but shouldn’t you channel your money into making a good product first?

PhishMe

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:39:48 +0000

I got an email that said something about Apple was not able to process my recent payment. They really had me thinking my .Mac (MobileMe) subscription was up and my credit card on file has expired. Unfortunately for them, my spidey-sense alerted me that the URL didn’t seem right.