Jon Simpson’s Weblog

Ok, so the replacement for my previously damaged PowerBook arrived today. It’s as expected, and at this point I think I’m going to wait a few days before making any sweeping statements about its functional state.
Again, it seemed just as I had got used to the iBook, the PowerBook came along and impressed me with [...]

Further to my last post about spaced paths and SCP, I ran into SCP not particularly liking the laggy and low-bandwidth nature of the connection I was using it over. This caused some problems with it stalling in the middle of transferring files. As SCP seems to overwrite files it has already started retrieving, and [...]

Ok, so whilst trying to copy a directory structure from one of my Windows boxes at home, I had an issue getting scp to like the pathnames & filenames (they contained spaces). I’ve looked up the answer to this before as its affected me previously, but this time it took 10-15 minutes of googling. So [...]

As I was in the process of moving all of my e-mail, documents and other trivial pieces of data back to the iBook pending the PowerBook’s departure, the large difference between the two hit me. Having gone from the iBook to the PowerBook, I had obviously noticed the improvements that the new system had brought, [...]