I’ve a couple of stand fans for circulating air and cooling the rooms down but seems like the roomba 560 so not really like them.
The roomba 560 will climb onto the base of these stand fans and occasionally get stuck there, making that the last destination of its cleaning cycle.
So how can I avoid such situations? After some thoughts, I reckoned that I could:
- Replace all my standing fans with wall mounted fans; or
- Have a high tech solution of carefully positioned virtual wall(s) to exclude the fan area; or
- Live without the fans and use air-con instead; or
- Make the fan base difficult / impossible to mount
Well, seems like the first three are either too expensive or challenging so I would go for option 4 instead!
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This is the scooba floor washing robot in midnight blue!
The iRobot Scooba 380 Floor Washing Robot from Woot.com finally arrived via ComGateway. The shipping, like the last time, is pretty fast. It took only four days to get from US to SG (via DHL Express).
For those who do not know about the iRobot Scooba. The Scooba is essentially a floor washing robot that automatically navigates around your apartment/room and does all the floor washing, scrubbing and lastly, squeegeeing. It does all the light vacuuming, washing, scrubbing and squeegeeing all one a single pass and it passes a spot multiple times just like the iRobot Roomba.
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It is Comex (for those who don’t know, it is a computer show in Singapore)! Went down with my colleagues and picked up two sets of 4GB RAM (Kingston 4GB 1333MHz) at $33 each
My new Kingston DDR3 1333MHz 4GB RAM sticks
First thing I did after stepping back into the house? Dug out the screw driver, went to the study room and start installing the RAM sticks. Upgrading the RAM on the iMac 27-inch is a straight forward process, even Apple put up an article on how to install or remove memory. Just be careful not to drop your iMac while shifting it around.
The memory upgrade process took me less than 10 minutes. System booted up normally and the “About this Mac” reflected the correct amount of RAM.
System now having 16GB of RAM
You might ask me why I need so much memory? I do play with a bit of virtual machines (VM) so having some spare memory is always good as sometimes I boot up multiple VM to try some stuffs.
Well, so do you need to add memory to your iMac? If you are seeing the beach ball more often and Activity Monitor shows that you have low amount of free System Memory. It is probably time to add some memory. 
The Apple File Protocol (AFP) stopped working the day I upgraded to OS X Lion. Network shares on the NAS (DNS-320, ReadyNAS Duo) can no longer be browsed through AFP because none of them supports AFP 3.X calls and the authentication standards required by Lion.
I need a fix fast! Why? My iMac’s 1TB Seagate HDD got recalled and I needed Time Machine (TM) to work before the tech guy replace it on site.
(Re)setup my compiling environment, this time for the DNS-320. Did some compiling, wrote some shell scripts and Time Machine (on OS X Lion) is working with my D-Link DNS-320 once again. Well, it still throws some CNIB warning messages when accessing the share but at least it works now. The CNIB issue is fixed with help from Ben Archer.
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Time Machine
Enabling Time Machine support on the D-Link DNS-320 is, surprisingly, a straight-forward task. Yes, you can use your own NAS (Network Attached Storage) for Time Machine backups instead of Apple Time Capsule. However, Time Machine seems to use all the available space (on the NAS) for backup purposes. So I started to explore how can I limit the amount of disk space used for Time Machine.
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iMac 27" with my wireless keyboard, magic mouse and magic Trackpad
Finally got myself a decent computer from the recent PC Show 2011 (9 June to 12 June 2011). In fact, I got myself the ultimate all-in-one desktop computer and I am using it to compose this entry you are seeing now.
This Apple iMac 27-Inch is the mid 2011 model that comes with the following configuration:
- 27-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen TFT display (resolution: 2560 by 1440 pixels)
- 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with 6MB on-chip shared L3 cache
- 8GB (two 4GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 memory (upgradable to 16GB although some have pushed it successfully to 32GB)
- 1TB (7200 rpm) harddrive (upgradable to 2TB or 256GB SSD)
- AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics processor with 512MB DDR5 memory
- Two Thunderbolt ports
- One FireWire 800 port
- Four USB 2.0 ports
- SDXC card slot
Check out the Apple iMac page.
Interested to get a iMac 27-inch? Check out the Apple iMac 27-Inch Desktop deals on Amazon.
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