None taken! It's part due to stress, part due to the fact that my Mac very badly positioned on the side of the table, because the PC occupies the main space and partly due to the new Apple keyboard. Nice, but it takes some getting used to.
I work as a journalist. I'm 26, and starting to learn how to cope with stress and the fact that a single small slip of the keys could land my employer in a multi-million lawsuit.
The answer is; with the years, you get more confident in yourself. You know that the abaility to do it is in you, and is neing used, so it's nothing to worry about. Focus on teh task instead.
But occasionaly, I do get a bit worried. Like five minnutes ago, where the competing newspaper said (indriectly) that my story about the returing caskets with soldiers from Iraq was dead wrong (Among the pictures from thememoryhole.org were some pictures of caskets frome the columbia accident). I paniced a bit, yes, but though calmly about it, investigated my case, and discovered that the pictures I had discarded (since they wer taken during the day, while the pictures I used were in the night) from columbia had not been included in my article. And therefore it was 100% correct.
I love Apple too, but for another reason: I bought a snow-white keyboard from them, it arrived at the end of the week. After unpacking it and using it a bit, I saw that the spacebar key was a bit crooked. It was also a bit annoying for me to use, as i type a lot in my profession.
I called Apple, and they said it was not problem for me to exchenge the KB at a local Mac dealer. I went to the Mac dealer, and they were asshats to an extreme extend (The store is going south fast, as they are using all the time to blame Apple instead of taking care of customers. I hung around the store for ten minutes as the second in line for service, and listened to the four people in the offices playing Snood and complaining to their bosses about how Apple rips them off. That might be true, but you still need to SELL something if you're in the selling computers-thingy).
As I could not exchange the KB there, instead they got angry with me, I called Apple again. They were shocked to hear about the treatment and sent me a new KB. This was friday afternoon. On monday morning, the new KB had arrived. I unpacked it and installed it, getting ready to send the old one back. After installing it I discovered that it lacked the Æ, Ø and Å keys. And I kinda need them to write norwegian.
So I called Apple again, and talked to a kind customer service woman. She heard my story, verified it in their log and said: "God, this is embarrasing", and sent a new KB next day delivery. This was Monday afternoon. Tuesday morning, the new KB arrived, with all the keys, none crooked. But it was the 2002 model, not the 2003 model.
So, again, I called Apple.
This time I said: "Look, I'm not complaining. There has been some fuckups, but your behaviour has been kinda superb in handling it. But the KB is not the one I ordered. I can, however, keep it for a small reimbursement" The representative said: "What kind of reimbursement did you have in mind?" "Well, I could really use an Apple Mouse" "And how much do you want to pay for it?" "Well, about 30 USD sounds fair" "And would that be a wired or a wirless one?" "You know, the wireless is veeeeeery nice..." "I see. Let me talk to my manager about this, please hold"
I held the line for two minutes, before she returned. "Do you have Bluetooth in your Mac?" she asked. "Yes, it's a new Powerbook" I responded. "In that case, I'm sending you a new Bluetooth Apple mouse, free of charge as a was of saying sorry for the mishaps." she said.
After giving her my CC number (without exp. date), she brought up the old order and added the mouse to it. five minutes after, I brought the old order up in Safari and saw that the mouse was due to be delivered soon.
This is, bar none, the best customer treatment I have ever recieved. The fucked up, yes, but really, really went out of their way to unfuck it. And I got a new Bluetooth mouse to replace the piece of crap that is the Microsoft Bluetooth mouse.
And I like typing on the 2002 KB better. Win - win - win...
Excuse me, but how do you do this: "With the digital audio output, my Powerbook makes a better stereo/DVD player for me in my room as well."? I've looked around my 15"PB 1,25 gHz, and I can't see any SPDIF outs or abd coax outs... Is this in a former model?
LOL! I didn't think about that term before right now. I ment, as I think you understood, a house heated partly by the constant heat from the earths crust.
Although we're not too hot (pun intended) on the soal power issue, the scandinavian houses seem to be quite energy efficient with good insualtion and a good deal of us use thermal power. The thermal power is simply water heated in the crust of the earth, so you save some of the energy otherwise wasted on heating it to that point. A friend of mine lives in a thermally heated, very thouroughly insulated house (with good ventilation), and they spend a tiny, tiny amount of dough on heat. He recons the thermal system would be paid off in six years, making it a total of ten years in investment. He also applied for a grant from SINTEF for repairs, and got it. Not a bad deal.
...the good 'ole Doom Process Killer. Where the processes of the computer showed up as enemies with a number above (The PID), an then you could frag (kill -9) them to eternal peace in/dev/null
I have.Mac, and it is not what I'm thinking of. I just imagined a huge mailserver that forwards, and a simple web interface to change the settings as your new ISP account etc. Maybe finance it with targeted ads, like a couple a week or so. Just a thought.
True. And I have the know-how to do that. But what about the others. The moms and pops that change their address each time they change the ISP? Some ISPs are cool, and let you keep the account or at least forward it but many don't.
I have to keep ALL the mail I get and send at my work. I my cabinet I have HDDs with 15 GB of mail, in duplicate, saved for life. My new powerbook has so far only 10 messages, but it will grow.
I would love an adress I could use for the rest of my life, but the storage is irrelevant. What I want is an address at a domain guaranteed not to disappear, that forwards the mail to my ISP du jour.
>fuck with my iPod and you're going to have some extra holes in your ass.
For your sake, I really, really hope that your mugger is unarmed (In England, if they carry anything at all, they carry knives. Guns are a rarity). And if he's armed, I hope that he or she draw slower than you. But that is irrelevant becaus if they a) have a gun and b) mug you, the gun is already probably drawn. And that is bad for you.
And, BTW, the USP sucks ass. Men use the Desert Eagle Mark XIX. Although my 970 hours of gun training was with Glock 17 and 19...
Yeah, not only that. It takes arounf one minute to login to MSN at work, on a w2k computer.
My GFs Mac has a really, really, really strange MSN problem. When she goes up to the second floor, the MSN starts to log her out from her wifi iBook. All signal levels are the same, same number of successful packets (100%) and no other programs experience any connection problem. Strange, indeed,
From the argument at Ars: Steve Jobs has never gave a real damn about selling computers to the markets that really matter in terms of sales (corporate/business/education/government sector)
I call bullshit.
Apple has always focused on the education sector, and up until the early / mid 90ies had a firm grip on it in several countries.
As I spoke to the guy in charge of educational sales in Norway, it became clear that they are very, very VERY interested in marketing towards the education sector. But they lost the grip in the non-Jobs time period, and struggle to take it back. Now, they're up against the challenge of selling computers to a sector firmly locked in with one OS. The cool-dressed-head-shaved guy in charge also said that the schools want Macs, the students want Macs, the IT teachers want Macs, the principal want Macs (lower TCO), the mundicipal IS department doesn't want Macs. And usually, they win.
Apart from UNIX Terminals, is there something stopping her from doing all that in a PC-laptop? Download legal music? Check. Burn CD's? Check. Make movies? Check. Presentations? Check. Surfing? Check. Email? Check. Chatting? Check.
Sure, she could do all that on a w2k laptop, but she didn't. What she had experienced from the w-world was vir(ii/uses), crashed, slowness, expensive video editors, lame-ass CD burners, etc. With the iBook, it all simply worked. Right out of the box. Snap a picture, connect camera, view picture. As opposed to: Snap picture, connect, wait for W to recognize camera, locate driver CD, install driver etc.
What I'm getting to here is that the threshold for first-time users is lower. This means that you can do more, with less guidance in shorter time. And when the system is so thorough as MacOS X, users find themselves doing things they never had contemplated on PCs.
It is not difficult for you or me to use W, but it might be difficult for someone else to get started. And this was what happened with my GF. She never got started on W. But in MacOS X, the OS started her. By being easy to use, intuitive, less prone to errors and more satisfying to use.
If it was only the UNIX terminal that counted, I'd given her an acc on one of my Debian boxes. But the point was that she found it, and started to use it on her own. No BF interaction included.
This says, at least to me, something about the power that MacOS has to include the user, and educate the user about itself. It seems that newbies in W are too busy trying to handle all the crap that the OS deals them, to acutally learn someting new.
I was at an Apple press conference today, where they showed off iLife to the press.
Arne Odden, a rather nice fella and the CEO of Apple Norway, started the whole thing by saying that he's getting a bit tired of the questions about iTunes Music Store for Europe, since no one knows when the myriad of contracts, recordings (yes, even European artists record and these are going into the store), and the kitchen sink will be ready.
So he said it with these words: It'll ready, when it's ready.
And that is what we know about the Apple Music store for Europe today. He even mentioned that there's some recorings being prepared from tapes. Studio tapes that is. Interesting...
On a side note, the presentation falled into the clammy hands of the DemoDevil when the iPod everything was stored on reached its limit (4 kB left!) and crashed the whole shebang right into the stone age. That was the first time I ever saw the Mac equalent of a BSOD, the grey please-reboot-window. Even that was designed beautifully. The Wintel fanatics started to laugh, but made utter fools of them selves afterwards by asking the dumbes, most inane questions I have ever heard from persons supposed to work for the computer press (Think PC Magazine journalists).
i) When the 17" PB arrived, it caused quite a stir at my workplace. The guy doing video editing LOVED it, because it had many features not even in existance on comparable PC laptops, the 17" inch screen was the most notable. Bluetooth, Extreme wireless, gigabit ethernet, backlit keyboard, all things that could make his day a lot easier (Quicker video transfer, less hassle in the dark). The price was never, never under discussion because you pay more for the better tools. The only thing stopping him from investing in this PB was the fact that the video export is soley done in WMV, and he couldn't find a good app for OSX at the time.
ii) A grand-aunt bought a laptop PC for 17 000 NOK, against the advice from my mom, who has become a Mac zealot on her old days (She has used computers daily since 1974). The lapton is simply too difficult to configure use for my aunt, and 3000 NOK more expensive than a similar iBook.
iii) My GF had a PC for 4 years, it was used only to type on and to pay bills on days here the 'net connection wasn't too bad because of all the malware on the computer. With her iBook, she downloads legally music, burns CDs, makes movies, presentations, surfs, emails (look! no vir(i/uses!)), chats, tinkers around in UNIX terminals!
iv) A mate called me up on sunday, desperate as hell because he had a project due on monday morning and iwthout warning, the norwegian characters on the keyboard of his PC disappeared (the AE, O and A) and the keyboard was suddenly american. He phoned me, to see if I had a solution, and he was desperate. This problem often occured to me at work, bu I never understood why. I tried to change the keyboard manually back to Norwegian in Control Panel of w2k, but that would only work every third or fourth time. He had to reboot six times (every time that happened) that evening, and told me the morning after that the next round of computers at his company will be all Macs his time is too valuble to waste like the evening before.
BTW: I use Linux at home, Windows 2000 / XP at work, do a lot of Windows repair, and have bought a 15" Powerbook so I'm no Mac zealot. I just believe that if your time is worth nothing, use Windows. If the primary goal is to get work done, use Mac. That is my whole philosophy.
No offence, just to be curious: What is it that you can do on a w2k platform, that you can't don in OSX, Linux or w2k on Virtual PC?
My Powerbook 15" SuperDrive is on its way to me from Apple, and I'm actually going to use w2k again for the first time in tree years at home, in VirtualPC. (The reason is that my work uses a crappy HTML-in-web editor that will ONLY work on Explorer for Windows)
Until now, it has been a teensy bit cumbersome not being able to use that editor directly, but to use an external one then cut-n-past the HTML in the article, while using Linux. But the no-crashes-in-three-years advantage made up for this many times over.
The picture supplied on the article page (If it is the robot, my japanese is rusty) shows the awesome creativity of the japanese designers. This design would never have been approved by marketing here in conservative Europe.
OK - so you're a Mac user from the sound of things.
No, I'm a Debian user. Right tools for the right job. At work I use Windows, but I'm buying a Powerbook, because it is a lot more powerful in Photoshop.
OK - so Microsoft installs NetBIOS over TCP/IP by default.
Seems like it. A little bit retarded if you ask me.
I guess I'm at fault for not turning it off. But, as a long time Linux user, I didn't realize exactly how dangerous a default install of w2k really is. I had heard about the Blaster worm, and the IS dept. at my work ran around in circles trying to fix it (Seems like it entered the network via laptops) but since it did not affect me I did not know a lot about it. So turning off NetBIOS wasn't my first thought. The first was to get a proper firewall, then patch the hell out of the installation.
Still, your GF is probably better off with an iBook - they are girls machines after all;-)
She is very content with it. Now she makes video, writes documents, burns CDs and all that stuff that she did not know how to do on a PC. And we all know that the mens computer is the powerbook! *woof, woof*!;)
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, well... I do need to focus on something else sometimes. And, luckily, reading Slashdot is part of my job! :D I write about tech...
None taken! It's part due to stress, part due to the fact that my Mac very badly positioned on the side of the table, because the PC occupies the main space and partly due to the new Apple keyboard. Nice, but it takes some getting used to.
I'm at work, hence the stress... ;) And the fact that I have a very, very bad writing position. :(
I work as a journalist. I'm 26, and starting to learn how to cope with stress and the fact that a single small slip of the keys could land my employer in a multi-million lawsuit.
The answer is; with the years, you get more confident in yourself. You know that the abaility to do it is in you, and is neing used, so it's nothing to worry about. Focus on teh task instead.
But occasionaly, I do get a bit worried. Like five minnutes ago, where the competing newspaper said (indriectly) that my story about the returing caskets with soldiers from Iraq was dead wrong (Among the pictures from thememoryhole.org were some pictures of caskets frome the columbia accident). I paniced a bit, yes, but though calmly about it, investigated my case, and discovered that the pictures I had discarded (since they wer taken during the day, while the pictures I used were in the night) from columbia had not been included in my article. And therefore it was 100% correct.
In other words: Trust your instincts.
I love Apple too, but for another reason: I bought a snow-white keyboard from them, it arrived at the end of the week. After unpacking it and using it a bit, I saw that the spacebar key was a bit crooked. It was also a bit annoying for me to use, as i type a lot in my profession.
I called Apple, and they said it was not problem for me to exchenge the KB at a local Mac dealer. I went to the Mac dealer, and they were asshats to an extreme extend (The store is going south fast, as they are using all the time to blame Apple instead of taking care of customers. I hung around the store for ten minutes as the second in line for service, and listened to the four people in the offices playing Snood and complaining to their bosses about how Apple rips them off. That might be true, but you still need to SELL something if you're in the selling computers-thingy).
As I could not exchange the KB there, instead they got angry with me, I called Apple again. They were shocked to hear about the treatment and sent me a new KB. This was friday afternoon. On monday morning, the new KB had arrived. I unpacked it and installed it, getting ready to send the old one back. After installing it I discovered that it lacked the Æ, Ø and Å keys. And I kinda need them to write norwegian.
So I called Apple again, and talked to a kind customer service woman. She heard my story, verified it in their log and said: "God, this is embarrasing", and sent a new KB next day delivery. This was Monday afternoon. Tuesday morning, the new KB arrived, with all the keys, none crooked. But it was the 2002 model, not the 2003 model.
So, again, I called Apple.
This time I said: "Look, I'm not complaining. There has been some fuckups, but your behaviour has been kinda superb in handling it. But the KB is not the one I ordered. I can, however, keep it for a small reimbursement"
The representative said: "What kind of reimbursement did you have in mind?"
"Well, I could really use an Apple Mouse"
"And how much do you want to pay for it?"
"Well, about 30 USD sounds fair"
"And would that be a wired or a wirless one?"
"You know, the wireless is veeeeeery nice..."
"I see. Let me talk to my manager about this, please hold"
I held the line for two minutes, before she returned. "Do you have Bluetooth in your Mac?" she asked.
"Yes, it's a new Powerbook" I responded.
"In that case, I'm sending you a new Bluetooth Apple mouse, free of charge as a was of saying sorry for the mishaps." she said.
After giving her my CC number (without exp. date), she brought up the old order and added the mouse to it. five minutes after, I brought the old order up in Safari and saw that the mouse was due to be delivered soon.
This is, bar none, the best customer treatment I have ever recieved. The fucked up, yes, but really, really went out of their way to unfuck it. And I got a new Bluetooth mouse to replace the piece of crap that is the Microsoft Bluetooth mouse.
And I like typing on the 2002 KB better. Win - win - win...
Excuse me, but how do you do this: "With the digital audio output, my Powerbook makes a better stereo/DVD player for me in my room as well."? I've looked around my 15"PB 1,25 gHz, and I can't see any SPDIF outs or abd coax outs... Is this in a former model?
LOL! I didn't think about that term before right now. I ment, as I think you understood, a house heated partly by the constant heat from the earths crust.
Although we're not too hot (pun intended) on the soal power issue, the scandinavian houses seem to be quite energy efficient with good insualtion and a good deal of us use thermal power. The thermal power is simply water heated in the crust of the earth, so you save some of the energy otherwise wasted on heating it to that point. A friend of mine lives in a thermally heated, very thouroughly insulated house (with good ventilation), and they spend a tiny, tiny amount of dough on heat. He recons the thermal system would be paid off in six years, making it a total of ten years in investment. He also applied for a grant from SINTEF for repairs, and got it. Not a bad deal.
And here it is: Spammers Porsche up for grabs
This was in the mainstream media, even. And Slashdot.
Seriously, it is nice to see that the Google system is not so overly polished that they wipe out any traces of human emotions and cute little oddites.
Happy birthday, April!
...the good 'ole Doom Process Killer. Where the processes of the computer showed up as enemies with a number above (The PID), an then you could frag (kill -9) them to eternal peace in /dev/null
Aahhh.. Active aggression therapy.
I have .Mac, and it is not what I'm thinking of. I just imagined a huge mailserver that forwards, and a simple web interface to change the settings as your new ISP account etc. Maybe finance it with targeted ads, like a couple a week or so. Just a thought.
True. And I have the know-how to do that. But what about the others. The moms and pops that change their address each time they change the ISP? Some ISPs are cool, and let you keep the account or at least forward it but many don't.
Maybe I'll start a service?
I have to keep ALL the mail I get and send at my work. I my cabinet I have HDDs with 15 GB of mail, in duplicate, saved for life. My new powerbook has so far only 10 messages, but it will grow.
.
I would love an adress I could use for the rest of my life, but the storage is irrelevant. What I want is an address at a domain guaranteed not to disappear, that forwards the mail to my ISP du jour
>fuck with my iPod and you're going to have some extra holes in your ass.
For your sake, I really, really hope that your mugger is unarmed (In England, if they carry anything at all, they carry knives. Guns are a rarity). And if he's armed, I hope that he or she draw slower than you. But that is irrelevant becaus if they a) have a gun and b) mug you, the gun is already probably drawn. And that is bad for you.
And, BTW, the USP sucks ass. Men use the Desert Eagle Mark XIX. Although my 970 hours of gun training was with Glock 17 and 19...
Yeah, not only that. It takes arounf one minute to login to MSN at work, on a w2k computer.
My GFs Mac has a really, really, really strange MSN problem. When she goes up to the second floor, the MSN starts to log her out from her wifi iBook. All signal levels are the same, same number of successful packets (100%) and no other programs experience any connection problem. Strange, indeed,
Well, my GFs friends blame Apple for the problem. Since she's using a Mac, you know. They quietly ignore the fact that it happens to the was well.
Why do people despise the Mac platform so much?
From the argument at Ars: Steve Jobs has never gave a real damn about selling computers to the markets that really matter in terms of sales (corporate/business/education/government sector)
I call bullshit.
Apple has always focused on the education sector, and up until the early / mid 90ies had a firm grip on it in several countries.
As I spoke to the guy in charge of educational sales in Norway, it became clear that they are very, very VERY interested in marketing towards the education sector. But they lost the grip in the non-Jobs time period, and struggle to take it back. Now, they're up against the challenge of selling computers to a sector firmly locked in with one OS. The cool-dressed-head-shaved guy in charge also said that the schools want Macs, the students want Macs, the IT teachers want Macs, the principal want Macs (lower TCO), the mundicipal IS department doesn't want Macs. And usually, they win.
Apart from UNIX Terminals, is there something stopping her from doing all that in a PC-laptop? Download legal music? Check. Burn CD's? Check. Make movies? Check. Presentations? Check. Surfing? Check. Email? Check. Chatting? Check.
Sure, she could do all that on a w2k laptop, but she didn't. What she had experienced from the w-world was vir(ii/uses), crashed, slowness, expensive video editors, lame-ass CD burners, etc. With the iBook, it all simply worked. Right out of the box. Snap a picture, connect camera, view picture. As opposed to: Snap picture, connect, wait for W to recognize camera, locate driver CD, install driver etc.
What I'm getting to here is that the threshold for first-time users is lower. This means that you can do more, with less guidance in shorter time. And when the system is so thorough as MacOS X, users find themselves doing things they never had contemplated on PCs.
It is not difficult for you or me to use W, but it might be difficult for someone else to get started. And this was what happened with my GF. She never got started on W. But in MacOS X, the OS started her. By being easy to use, intuitive, less prone to errors and more satisfying to use.
If it was only the UNIX terminal that counted, I'd given her an acc on one of my Debian boxes. But the point was that she found it, and started to use it on her own. No BF interaction included.
This says, at least to me, something about the power that MacOS has to include the user, and educate the user about itself. It seems that newbies in W are too busy trying to handle all the crap that the OS deals them, to acutally learn someting new.
I was at an Apple press conference today, where they showed off iLife to the press.
Arne Odden, a rather nice fella and the CEO of Apple Norway, started the whole thing by saying that he's getting a bit tired of the questions about iTunes Music Store for Europe, since no one knows when the myriad of contracts, recordings (yes, even European artists record and these are going into the store), and the kitchen sink will be ready.
So he said it with these words:
It'll ready, when it's ready.
And that is what we know about the Apple Music store for Europe today. He even mentioned that there's some recorings being prepared from tapes. Studio tapes that is. Interesting...
On a side note, the presentation falled into the clammy hands of the DemoDevil when the iPod everything was stored on reached its limit (4 kB left!) and crashed the whole shebang right into the stone age. That was the first time I ever saw the Mac equalent of a BSOD, the grey please-reboot-window. Even that was designed beautifully. The Wintel fanatics started to laugh, but made utter fools of them selves afterwards by asking the dumbes, most inane questions I have ever heard from persons supposed to work for the computer press (Think PC Magazine journalists).
It really, really depends on your purpose.
Some real life examples:
i) When the 17" PB arrived, it caused quite a stir at my workplace. The guy doing video editing LOVED it, because it had many features not even in existance on comparable PC laptops, the 17" inch screen was the most notable. Bluetooth, Extreme wireless, gigabit ethernet, backlit keyboard, all things that could make his day a lot easier (Quicker video transfer, less hassle in the dark). The price was never, never under discussion because you pay more for the better tools. The only thing stopping him from investing in this PB was the fact that the video export is soley done in WMV, and he couldn't find a good app for OSX at the time.
ii) A grand-aunt bought a laptop PC for 17 000 NOK, against the advice from my mom, who has become a Mac zealot on her old days (She has used computers daily since 1974). The lapton is simply too difficult to configure use for my aunt, and 3000 NOK more expensive than a similar iBook.
iii) My GF had a PC for 4 years, it was used only to type on and to pay bills on days here the 'net connection wasn't too bad because of all the malware on the computer. With her iBook, she downloads legally music, burns CDs, makes movies, presentations, surfs, emails (look! no vir(i/uses!)), chats, tinkers around in UNIX terminals!
iv) A mate called me up on sunday, desperate as hell because he had a project due on monday morning and iwthout warning, the norwegian characters on the keyboard of his PC disappeared (the AE, O and A) and the keyboard was suddenly american. He phoned me, to see if I had a solution, and he was desperate. This problem often occured to me at work, bu I never understood why. I tried to change the keyboard manually back to Norwegian in Control Panel of w2k, but that would only work every third or fourth time. He had to reboot six times (every time that happened) that evening, and told me the morning after that the next round of computers at his company will be all Macs his time is too valuble to waste like the evening before.
BTW: I use Linux at home, Windows 2000 / XP at work, do a lot of Windows repair, and have bought a 15" Powerbook so I'm no Mac zealot. I just believe that if your time is worth nothing, use Windows. If the primary goal is to get work done, use Mac. That is my whole philosophy.
Too bad I can't use it.
No offence, just to be curious: What is it that you can do on a w2k platform, that you can't don in OSX, Linux or w2k on Virtual PC?
My Powerbook 15" SuperDrive is on its way to me from Apple, and I'm actually going to use w2k again for the first time in tree years at home, in VirtualPC. (The reason is that my work uses a crappy HTML-in-web editor that will ONLY work on Explorer for Windows)
Until now, it has been a teensy bit cumbersome not being able to use that editor directly, but to use an external one then cut-n-past the HTML in the article, while using Linux. But the no-crashes-in-three-years advantage made up for this many times over.
The picture supplied on the article page (If it is the robot, my japanese is rusty) shows the awesome creativity of the japanese designers. This design would never have been approved by marketing here in conservative Europe.
OK - so you're a Mac user from the sound of things.
;-)
;)
No, I'm a Debian user. Right tools for the right job. At work I use Windows, but I'm buying a Powerbook, because it is a lot more powerful in Photoshop.
OK - so Microsoft installs NetBIOS over TCP/IP by default.
Seems like it. A little bit retarded if you ask me.
I guess I'm at fault for not turning it off. But, as a long time Linux user, I didn't realize exactly how dangerous a default install of w2k really is. I had heard about the Blaster worm, and the IS dept. at my work ran around in circles trying to fix it (Seems like it entered the network via laptops) but since it did not affect me I did not know a lot about it. So turning off NetBIOS wasn't my first thought. The first was to get a proper firewall, then patch the hell out of the installation.
Still, your GF is probably better off with an iBook - they are girls machines after all
She is very content with it. Now she makes video, writes documents, burns CDs and all that stuff that she did not know how to do on a PC. And we all know that the mens computer is the powerbook! *woof, woof*!