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The summer season snuck in on us. At “Snipe Fleet 444″:http://www.snipe444.org/ they race every Tuesdays April-September, so time to get started with at least the Summer series June 18-July 30.
These things are a class of boat, but there are lots of manufacturers and things to consider. “Mike McLaughlin”:http://www.snipe.org/articles/buyused.php did a good overview article on them that is mindnumbing in complexity. You need a good used boat in the first year.
His main points are that the boat itself should be within five pounds of its weight. Otherwise, it has absorbed water. You want a boat with PVC foams. He mentions there are lots of shapes from Chubasco, Eclipse, Jibetech, McLaughlin, Mueller, Persson and Phoenix.
The mast must be a good bendty one. Cobra II, Firestix, Sidewinder, Proctor Miracle and Bryant are all OK.
The blade (daggerboard and rudder) are less improtant but should be straight and smooth.
! | | Theoretical | Real World | So right now we just did a benchmark with a MacBook Air and a Time Capsule and got 2MBps on 802.11n which is way, way less than 9MBps and mor elike what you would see with generic 802.11g.
| SATA 1.5Gbps | 150 | 75 |
| USB 2.0 480Mbps | 60 | 30 |
| Fast Ethernet 100Mbps | 12 | 10 |
| Gigabit Ethernet | 120 | 40 |
| 802.11g 54Mbps | 7 | 3 |
| 802.11n 300Mbps | 38 | 9 |
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!>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20070330/226rest_30_2.jpg! Well, I said you could spend a year exploring downtown Seattle restaurants for lunch. Here’s a sampling of the latest so far in the definitely go there again. As a sampling of where to find reviews, “Gayot.com”:http://www.gayot.com/restaurants/bestof/bestof/seattle.html and The Stranger I’d add to my list. The “Gayot Top 10″:http://www.gayot.com/restaurants/bestof/se_top10foodratings.html is pretty good.
* “Steelhead Diner”:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/309512_rest30.html is right across from Cafe Campagne and it servers some really great and different cuisine. I had gumbo and it was very nice. The chili is hot and don’t think of it as a diner, it has a great view and great good. They hand out Seafood watch, so they care about the environment. Lots of local ingredients and its a family place. Ken Davis is from Louisiana, was executive chef at Arnaud’s there and then was at Sazerac and then Oceanaire. It isn’t just southern, the Black Cod sounds wonderful by the way.
* “Copacabana”:http://www.seattleweekly.com/2006-04-19/food/south-america.php#copacabana. Also at the market and with a nice view over the top. The only Bolivian restaurant in town. Try the Paella, but what I really love are the local cola and the drink from the Amazon. 1520 Pike Pl.
* “Maximilien in the Market”:http://www.maximilienrestaurant.com/reviews/. Nearly impossible to find if you don’t know where it is. (It’s deep inside near the pig). It is a classic French bistro. Try the onion soup or the mussels. They are terrific.
* “Place Pigalle”:http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=9969 is right next to Max’s at the Market. They’ve got a new chef and updated menu. Like Max’s, they have a great view. Food is terrific too. Not as classic a Max’s. But still bistro food.
* “Cafe Campagne”:http://www.gayot.com/restaurantpages/info.php?tag=SERES00174-01&code=SE. This is the downstairs little brother to Campagne’s. Looks like a French bistro. The cassoulet is terrific.
* “Andaluca”:http://www.gayot.com/restaurantpages/info.php?tag=SERES9935&code=SE. The staff here is terrificallly friendly and the tomato bread soup is really good. It is vaguely spanish I would guess, but feels mediterranean I think is the general term.
* “Il Fornaio”:
And here are some places that are on the list to try:
* “Le Pichet”:http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/1/242/Seattle/Downtown-restaurants/Le-Pichet.html. How many French bistro’s are there in downtown Seattle. Its kind of amazing.
* “Metropolitan Grill”:http://themetropolitangrill.com For the day we are so depressed we have to eat a big steak and drink a martini at lunch time 
* “Chocolate Box”:http://sschocolatebox.com Because you can’t live by good alone :_)
* “El Puerco Lioron”:
* “Etta’s”:http://tomdouglas.com/ettas Seafood by the green.
* “Lola”:http://tomdouglas.com/lola Greek food.
* “Palace Kitchen”:http://tomdouglas.com/palace
* “Serious Pie”:http://tomdouglas.com/serious
* “Taste at SAM”:http://tastesam.com. Great cookies!
* “The Triple Door”:http://tripledoor.com
* “Serious Pie”:
Well, many folks on “Apple’s discussion”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7026416 are talking about performance issues with 7.3.1. Like me, I now lose the connection to the Time Capsule drive and then Time Machine fails and looks for a password (which should be on the key chain).
The other problem is slow network “speeds”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1477962&tstart=-2 where folks are seeeing speed stuck at 2Mbps (I see 2MBps), but when they go back to 7.3, they get back to high speeds. That is what most folks are seeing. 2MBps even on large copies. Also, the MacBook Air looks stuck at about 2MBps writing while the MacBook Pro is at 9MBps as “Macintouch”:http://www.macintouch.com/reviews/timecapsule/ reports. As an aside, you should get about 14MBps with a direct gigabit ethernet connect.
Here is how you downgrade:
# Start /Utilities/Airport Utility
# Click on your Airport and click on Manual Setup
# Choose Base Station/Upload Firmware and you should see 7.3.1 and 7.3
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! Normally I just use a handheld camcorder, but the pro’s use a mixing board and professional equipment. Well, that’s way easier these days thanks to Belkin: * “Belkin TuneStudio for iPod 6th Generation”:http://www.belkin.com/pressroom/releases/uploads/01_08_07TuneStudio.html. This is $400 list, $200 street device that records directly to an iPod at 16-bit, 44KHz (CD quality sound). It supports 4 inputs and you can use high quality XLR input microphones. Now if only I could find our lost iPod Video, I’d be set. This is perfect for remote situations where you don’t have a studio like at a concert. “Microphones”:http://www.zzounds.com/cat–Microphones–2821. Zzounds is the top rated site on google.
* “Tascam DR-1″:http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/item/TAS-DR-1-MIC-BUNDLE which is a dedicated digital recording device that you put SD cards in. It has a builtin microphone set. And is just $200, so less a pro setup than the Belkin, but way more compact. It takes two microphones in if you want to do that and you can get binaural microphones that fit in your ear which is way cool.
OK, we had the Ikon guy in to look at printers that are all-in-one. Confirms some of the initial work we did. There are basically four vendors, HP, Canon, Ricoh and Xerox to consider. And there are two major lines, consumer and business oriented. So it seems to be a you get what you pay for business.
The PC Magazine leader seems to be Xerox. They have a solid ink technology and low cost. The big issue is what happens when Xerox disappears as a vendor. On the other hand, it is the only middle of the road all-in-one that could be copier we could find:
* “Xerox Phaser 8860″:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2199147,00.asp. It lists for about $3K street. Or about $4K list for the “8860MFP”:http://www.office.xerox.com/multifunction-printer/color-multifunction/phaser-8860mfp/enus.html. They claim consumables are lower, but it does need to be on 24 hours to keep the solid ink melted. It won’t collate though.
* “Xerox Phaser 6180MFP”:http://www.office.xerox.com/multifunction-printer/color-multifunction/phaser-6180mfp/enus.html. This is $950 that does copy, fax, print and scan with duplexing.
* “Xerox Phaser 6360DN”:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2135176,00.asp. This is only a color printer at $1000 street.
For HP the choices are:
* “HP Color LaserJet CM6030″:http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/18972-18972-238444-12004-3328085-3644750.html which is replacing the HP 9500 for $9000 list price. This is 30ppm but does have a finishing option.
For Canon the choices are:
* “Canon iRC3480″ which is 34ppm and about $13K stree
For Ricoh the choices are:
* “Ricoh SP C811DN”:http://www.ikon.com/products/Printers/Color/Ricoh_Aficio_SPC811DN.asp. this is supposed to be about 15% less reliable than the Canon. It is $4K
We’ve found Time Machine incredibly, incredibly slow on the initial backup. Even with gigabit ethernet, it would backup may 3GB after 2 hours. With the way we use machines at work, it would just start over all the time. “Macrumors.com”:http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=379066 has some advice about what to do:
* Turn off Time Machine
* If you aren’t using a Time Capsule, “don’t”:http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/2007/11/04/time-machine-and-slow-first-backup/ let Time Machine format the disk, do it yourself (not relevant if you have Time Capsule since these are already formatted). “Gizmodo.com”:http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/leopard-disk-utility-format-issue-screws-with-time-machine-but-theres-an-easy-fix-316573.php explains the problem is that with PC formatted drives, Time Machine doesn’t format them correctly, so you have to erase with Disk Utility and then format as a Mac drive with Disk Utility as well.
* Exclude the disk from spotlight indexing and don’t start the initial backup while spotlight is doing the initial installation. “Discussions.apple.com”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1430223&tstart=0 emphasizes that you ahve to turn privacy tab off of spotlight for all disk involved. Go to System Preference>Spotlight>Privacy and drag to all the disks involved. Both the Time Capsule and the local hard drive.
* Turn off virus checking for sure! (I think this is my problem with my MacBook Air. I use clamav). This sped up the system 10x for the user.
* Other folks report that unmounting Time Capsule from Finder might help, but that’s unclear.
A 90GB system should take 120 minutes to do.
On a different front, “vitarara.org”:http://www.vitarara.org/cms/node/149 points out that you need to delete the “.inprogress” folder using the Finder on your Time Capsule and then restart Time Machine. You should get 12-14MB/second on a wired connection.
For “Time Capsule”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7110199 itself, people are finding that it takes 8 hours to backup 150GB and they use the wired connection. It is slow apparently intentionally to keep the computer being backed up fast. Not what folks want. I suspect, most folks would want to dedicate it because 8 hours of waiting just doesn’t make sense for most folks with laptops. Means they would be without a computer for a day in essence at work.
Others are reporting that the “Time Capsule”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1430223&tstart=0 seems to slow down over the day and they need to do a restart. *It seems to me that what is probably happening is the 802.11 wifi is slowly hunting down. That can happen, the Wifi slows down if there is interference and never goes back up, so it sounds like regular reboots of slow Time Capsules matter*
Some other problems include “backup corruption”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1503192&tstart=0 on MacBook Pro on wireless and then will hang on preparing backup…
As an aside the theoretical speeds for a Time Capsule should be “11.76MBps”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1471381&tstart=15 on Gigabit ethernet and 10MBps on 5Ghz. I’ve never actually gotten this.
Finally some folks suspect that the latest firmware “7.3.1″:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1471381&tstart=15 is just slowing things down and “some”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1502277&tstart=30 have found that a hardware reset by pushing the factory reset on the back realy does help. He was getting 0.2MBps until he hit reset then got 2MBps on an 802.11g connection.
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