OK: I got the iBook for free from my Aunt Karen who was the original owner. She was "downgrading" to a VAIO. I told her to get a ThinkPad, but did she listen to me? Nope. She'd better coddle that VAIO because they tend to be flimsy, something which only the new Lenovo-designed ThinkPads seem to be.
And the 600x? A refurb. This is the point I'm making here: these were CHEAP. Both of these models can be found cheap as refurbs. If someone walks off with either the iBook or the 600x I'd be bummed but I could theoretically replace it without sweating it too hard.
Get a cheap-ass refurb for your road computer, and leave the extra-spiffy lappie or desktop at home. At least for a few years, anyway.
I have two lappies. Neither are newer than 2000. One's a clamshell iBook, running Mac OS X "Panther." One's a ThinkPad 600x, running Debian Sarge Linux with a smidge of Sid for spice.
If you want a really nice computer, keep it on your desktop. Don't take anything with you you can't replace.
This totally does *not* make sense. I have a tutorial video that I am having to cut into pieces to upload to YouTube. The whole enchilada in LoFi Quicktime is 27MB. I'm having to give it to them in 10 Min> chunks. Guess what? Each chunk is coming out to 55MB. OK, if that's the way you want it, YouTube, go ahead and give me 220MB of space instead of 27MB.
...continues to be delayed, then I suspect this is exactly what they will do. Throw the current "Windows Vista" down the same shitter that Copland was thrown down in favor of NeXTStep, assimilate a flavor of BSD (Theo DeRaadt needs money now, he'd be Open to it, I think...) and that will be what "Windows Vista" ends up being.
Windows Vista! Now with BSD Unix goodness! Kiss the BSOD goodbye!
There was a scene during the Order 66 montage that originally was supposed to involve Ghyslane Raza, where a Padawan takes out a metric buttload of Clone Troopers before being disposed of. Too bad that never happened and they got another kid for the role.
Certainly that would have been the ultimate vindication for the Star Wars Kid. Show him wielding a sabrestaff and kicking serious butt. I'm sure he would have gotten more than $300,000CA for the appearance. He'd be set for his entire college tuition even if he chose to become Ghyslane Raza, MD, Ghyslane Raza, DDS, or Ghyslane Raza, Esq., JD.
Of course, this is the *real* point behind the lawsuit. Make sure young Ghyslane's college tuition is paid for because the parents didn't save enough.
I said it once and I'll say it again Spindler was a man ahead of his time.
Gott in himmel, you are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
Herr Spindler almost augured Apple into the ground. More Road Apples came out during his regime than any other CEO of Apple.
It took the combined heavy lifting of Gil Amelio (the true unsung hero who saved Apple from the shitter) and The Steve to get Apple out of the rut Spindler put it in. Sculley sent it on this trajectory, but it was Spindler who put it into a power dive.
Spindler's place in Apple history is assured: the guy who nearly killed the company.
It's fine under Panther too, particularly if you've done as I have done and jack the RAM up to 544MB, the maximum for the model. Yes, a clamshell *will* take a 512MB SO-DIMM, just so long as it's the right 512MB SO-DIMM. It has to be the lowest density version you can get in 100MHz.
When I was back there in seminary school There was a person there Who put forth the proposition That you can petition the Lord with prayer Petition the lord with prayer Petition the lord with prayer You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
I have an old school MiniDisc player that was bought on eBay. MZ-R70. What is it about 1999-vintage technology that is still so good? The little devil is 3" x 3.25" by less than an inch thick, and made of anodized aluminum. It gets ridiculous amounts of playtime and somewhat less ridiculous amounts of record time on a single AA battery. It's not CD quality but it does the job for both podcasts and live recording of my husband's many bands.
Yes there are new MD players out there. They now can record in non-compressed PCM, which only yields 15 minutes of record time per disc. However, Sony totally overcomplicated the interface with bells, whistles and a jogwheel. I couldn't figure the new one out...I will have to study TFM to figure it out for my friend Jim. The MZ-R70, however, is very easy.
I hate Sony. I really really HATE Sony. But their electronics, particularly their vintage stuff, still rocks.
One thing: T-Mobile uses Cingular's network on the West Coast. Ergo, T-Mobile and Cingular use the same frequency over here.
Oh yeah, neither my husband nor I have an "official" T-Mobile phone. We have ancient Ericsson r520m Euro-phones. They do exactly what we want and none of what we don't. The only real difference between ours and this bargain-basement Moto is that ours has Bluetooth, GPRS capability and internal memory. Oh yeah, no locking crap.:P
If you buy your own and make sure it's compatible with your provider's network bob's your uncle.
...which means 20 consecutive seasons on network TV.
Goddess help us all. That's 15 more seasons than they should have ran. The Simpsons jumped the shark after S5.
Idea for a real Tron 2 movie:
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The Story of Tron
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Flynn, who initially started out as an innovative programmer of videogames, presides over Encom as it becomes the main provider of operating systems for personal computers. Flynn grows more and more out of touch the more money he makes, and his lust for more and more domination of the field becomes more and more intense.
It is now 1995. Two things have emerged that he cannot control: 1.) Arpanet becomes the Internet, and is opened to the Great Unwashed. It begins to take shape as its own cybernetic landscape, much like the interior of the Mainframe but infinitely more vast. 2.) A Flynn-like programmer in Europe, Karl Svenson, has created an operating system which, while still rough around the edges, has the potential of blowing Encom's "Portals" system out of the water. And he's giving it away. The thought galls Flynn.
So Flynn goes back to a wheel of paper punch tape and resurrects the MCP. The MCP's new mission: to conquer the Internet and to eliminate Svenson. The MCP gets out of Flynn's control, and Flynn and Svenson are eventually forced to work together to prevent the MCP from putting them both out of business.
If you work at Pixar, go right ahead and take this. You're welcome.
If QEMU can be tuned up to become a workable solution, this might be a better way of running Windows on MacIntel. Insecure guest OS runs sandboxed and chrooted from the more secure (but not perfectly secure) host OS. I wonder if W2K SP4 or 98SE would run faster than XP under the same conditions...
I'd rather boot Windows in a secure sandbox as a guest OS under Mac OS X than dual-boot. So for me, a VMWare-esque solution would be ideal. That's going to be the real "killer app" that makes MacIntel very attractive.
However, expect an Intel version of Virtual PC as the only "official" way of running Windows on a MacIntel. Microsoft will see to it that this is how everything will shake out.
There is one more thing I would like to point out, if you are an atheist and find that the Christians you know gleefully support war and Bush's proactive foreign policy, I say to you, don't be fooled by them. Those Christians have bought into the lie that war is the only way to solve our current national problems, they have sacrificed their religion in favor of their political agenda. They have ignored Christ's message of love and peace in favor of a message of nationalism and selfishness. Those people are all-too-eager to sacrifice 100,000 of God's children in Iraq in favor of God's children in America. The only time I would ever justify war is in self-defense, the wars in the middle-east are not wars of self-preservation; they are wars of the all mighty dollar and economic-preservation.
You seem to be able to see through a lot of Dubya's Bush-shit. Very interesting.
However, think about this: why was it that Dubya was re-elected, mostly by "Bible-believing Christians" in the Southeastern, Midwestern and Intermountain West? Especially when you consider implantable VeriChips were approved for human use by the FDA during George W. Bush's first administration. This would mean that the Mark of the Beast, if RFID is really to be used in this way, was approved on George W. Bush's watch. And they re-elected the bastard!
My quetion to you: is George W. Bush the "Beast From The Sea," and is Dick Cheney his "False Prophet?" Or is it the other way around, with Dubya the front-man for the real Beast, Cheney? Or do you think this is not the case?
Another question and I'll wrap it up: what do you think of scholars who believe that the Book of Revelation is an allegory for Roman persecution of Early Christianity, both Hebrew and Greek, and the destruction of the Great Temple by Roman forces under Emperor Titus? Are you aware that Nero Caesar has a value of either 616 or 666 according to how you transliterate it in Hebrew and valuate it according to Hebrew Gematria?
I'm just curious. I was a believer, I'm not now. As a woman, I consider Christianity to be repugnant, just like I do the Judaism I was born into and the Islam that was basically Judaism made palatable for the Arabian tribes. Most non-Abrahamic religions are quite patriarchal as well. However, I would not consent to implantation of VeriChip. I find it an unacceptable breach of my privacy, and potentially hazardous to my health. It's also...umm...spooky, if you know what I mean. No freakin' way. Hang it around my neck, put it in my employee badge. That's OK. Implant it? That's where I draw the line.
Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you. I filter all email from.cn anyway as a matter of course, so if they're going to create their own alternative DNS and everything and sever themselves from ICANN, then cool. Go away and take your spam relays with you.
I predict that spam traffic will plummet after this happens. Enjoy your walled-garden MiddleKingdom.Net. Have fun. When you are ready to rejoin the civilized world, let us all know. Oh yeah, and when you are ready, lock down those damn SMTP servers, dammit.
Think of history. Gil Amelio buys NeXT for technology to move The Rhapsody Project (next generation Mac OS) forward. He gets The Steve on the Board Of Directors as part of the bargain. Six months later, Amelio is out on his ass, and The Steve is iCEO.
I think that Disney will be harder for The Steve to assimilate than Apple was. I give it two years on the outside. Just two years.
Oh yeah, and for the naysayers who were talking about how Apple didn't swallow Pixar even though The Steve is CEO of both companies: The Steve owned Pixar before he was invited back to Apple.
Two years on the outside, folks. My fearless prediction.
And one other thing: Dvorak has been wrong before on many things. He is so wrong it's not funny on Apple ditching Mac OS X for Windows Vista. You *will* see Windows Vista running in virtualization as a guest OS on a Mac OS X host OS, you *may* see Apple selling Windows Vista for dual-boot as an option for game junkies, but you will *never* see abandonment of Mac OS X. It's The Steve's baby. His favorite to boot. I am completely serious about this.
The flag of Virginia shows a woman standing over the body of a felled man. The man's crown has come off, showing that he was a king who has been toppled.
The imagery of that flag sometimes makes me think about what George W. Bush's fate would be if the world was just. It isn't. So it won't happen.:P
The telecom bust happened a year earlier. When the NASDAQ took its dive in 4/2000 it took a lot of telecoms with it.
Pour out a little liquor for Pacific Gateway Exchange. [sigh] Began to die in July of 2000. By January 2001 it was delisted and bankrupt. By April 2001 it was on the auction block.
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OK: I got the iBook for free from my Aunt Karen who was the original owner. She was "downgrading" to a VAIO. I told her to get a ThinkPad, but did she listen to me? Nope. She'd better coddle that VAIO because they tend to be flimsy, something which only the new Lenovo-designed ThinkPads seem to be.
And the 600x? A refurb. This is the point I'm making here: these were CHEAP. Both of these models can be found cheap as refurbs. If someone walks off with either the iBook or the 600x I'd be bummed but I could theoretically replace it without sweating it too hard.
Get a cheap-ass refurb for your road computer, and leave the extra-spiffy lappie or desktop at home. At least for a few years, anyway.
I have two lappies. Neither are newer than 2000. One's a clamshell iBook, running Mac OS X "Panther." One's a ThinkPad 600x, running Debian Sarge Linux with a smidge of Sid for spice.
If you want a really nice computer, keep it on your desktop. Don't take anything with you you can't replace.
No more videos allowed that are 12+ minutes.
This totally does *not* make sense. I have a tutorial video that I am having to cut into pieces to upload to YouTube. The whole enchilada in LoFi Quicktime is 27MB. I'm having to give it to them in 10 Min> chunks. Guess what? Each chunk is coming out to 55MB. OK, if that's the way you want it, YouTube, go ahead and give me 220MB of space instead of 27MB.
Other than that, YouTube is Da Kine.
...continues to be delayed, then I suspect this is exactly what they will do. Throw the current "Windows Vista" down the same shitter that Copland was thrown down in favor of NeXTStep, assimilate a flavor of BSD (Theo DeRaadt needs money now, he'd be Open to it, I think...) and that will be what "Windows Vista" ends up being.
Windows Vista! Now with BSD Unix goodness! Kiss the BSOD goodbye!
There was a scene during the Order 66 montage that originally was supposed to involve Ghyslane Raza, where a Padawan takes out a metric buttload of Clone Troopers before being disposed of. Too bad that never happened and they got another kid for the role.
Certainly that would have been the ultimate vindication for the Star Wars Kid. Show him wielding a sabrestaff and kicking serious butt. I'm sure he would have gotten more than $300,000CA for the appearance. He'd be set for his entire college tuition even if he chose to become Ghyslane Raza, MD, Ghyslane Raza, DDS, or Ghyslane Raza, Esq., JD.
Of course, this is the *real* point behind the lawsuit. Make sure young Ghyslane's college tuition is paid for because the parents didn't save enough.
I said it once and I'll say it again Spindler was a man ahead of his time.
Gott in himmel, you are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
Herr Spindler almost augured Apple into the ground. More Road Apples came out during his regime than any other CEO of Apple.
It took the combined heavy lifting of Gil Amelio (the true unsung hero who saved Apple from the shitter) and The Steve to get Apple out of the rut Spindler put it in. Sculley sent it on this trajectory, but it was Spindler who put it into a power dive.
Spindler's place in Apple history is assured: the guy who nearly killed the company.
It's fine under Panther too, particularly if you've done as I have done and jack the RAM up to 544MB, the maximum for the model. Yes, a clamshell *will* take a 512MB SO-DIMM, just so long as it's the right 512MB SO-DIMM. It has to be the lowest density version you can get in 100MHz.
The machine also has a 30GB hard drive.
Still going strong since 1999! Gotta love it. Blue Clamshell. Takes a knockin' and keeps on rockin'. That's what Apple engineering is at its best.
-- Jim Morrison "The Soft Parade."
I have an old school MiniDisc player that was bought on eBay. MZ-R70. What is it about 1999-vintage technology that is still so good? The little devil is 3" x 3.25" by less than an inch thick, and made of anodized aluminum. It gets ridiculous amounts of playtime and somewhat less ridiculous amounts of record time on a single AA battery. It's not CD quality but it does the job for both podcasts and live recording of my husband's many bands.
Yes there are new MD players out there. They now can record in non-compressed PCM, which only yields 15 minutes of record time per disc. However, Sony totally overcomplicated the interface with bells, whistles and a jogwheel. I couldn't figure the new one out...I will have to study TFM to figure it out for my friend Jim. The MZ-R70, however, is very easy.
I hate Sony. I really really HATE Sony. But their electronics, particularly their vintage stuff, still rocks.
[Darth Sidious mode]
Power!!! Unlimited power!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH!!!!
[/Darth Sidious mode]
Three words. O'Reilly. Falafel. Loofah.
One thing: T-Mobile uses Cingular's network on the West Coast. Ergo, T-Mobile and Cingular use the same frequency over here.
:P
Oh yeah, neither my husband nor I have an "official" T-Mobile phone. We have ancient Ericsson r520m Euro-phones. They do exactly what we want and none of what we don't. The only real difference between ours and this bargain-basement Moto is that ours has Bluetooth, GPRS capability and internal memory. Oh yeah, no locking crap.
If you buy your own and make sure it's compatible with your provider's network bob's your uncle.
...which means 20 consecutive seasons on network TV.
Goddess help us all. That's 15 more seasons than they should have ran. The Simpsons jumped the shark after S5.
Flynn, who initially started out as an innovative programmer of videogames, presides over Encom as it becomes the main provider of operating systems for personal computers. Flynn grows more and more out of touch the more money he makes, and his lust for more and more domination of the field becomes more and more intense.
It is now 1995. Two things have emerged that he cannot control:
1.) Arpanet becomes the Internet, and is opened to the Great Unwashed. It begins to take shape as its own cybernetic landscape, much like the interior of the Mainframe but infinitely more vast.
2.) A Flynn-like programmer in Europe, Karl Svenson, has created an operating system which, while still rough around the edges, has the potential of blowing Encom's "Portals" system out of the water. And he's giving it away. The thought galls Flynn.
So Flynn goes back to a wheel of paper punch tape and resurrects the MCP. The MCP's new mission: to conquer the Internet and to eliminate Svenson. The MCP gets out of Flynn's control, and Flynn and Svenson are eventually forced to work together to prevent the MCP from putting them both out of business.
If you work at Pixar, go right ahead and take this. You're welcome.
If QEMU can be tuned up to become a workable solution, this might be a better way of running Windows on MacIntel. Insecure guest OS runs sandboxed and chrooted from the more secure (but not perfectly secure) host OS. I wonder if W2K SP4 or 98SE would run faster than XP under the same conditions...
I'd rather boot Windows in a secure sandbox as a guest OS under Mac OS X than dual-boot. So for me, a VMWare-esque solution would be ideal. That's going to be the real "killer app" that makes MacIntel very attractive.
However, expect an Intel version of Virtual PC as the only "official" way of running Windows on a MacIntel. Microsoft will see to it that this is how everything will shake out.
The Prequel Trilogy basically killed the Sci-Fi Blockbuster. He's griping about something he had a hand in bringing to pass. I weep not.
There is one more thing I would like to point out, if you are an atheist and find that the Christians you know gleefully support war and Bush's proactive foreign policy, I say to you, don't be fooled by them. Those Christians have bought into the lie that war is the only way to solve our current national problems, they have sacrificed their religion in favor of their political agenda. They have ignored Christ's message of love and peace in favor of a message of nationalism and selfishness. Those people are all-too-eager to sacrifice 100,000 of God's children in Iraq in favor of God's children in America. The only time I would ever justify war is in self-defense, the wars in the middle-east are not wars of self-preservation; they are wars of the all mighty dollar and economic-preservation.
You seem to be able to see through a lot of Dubya's Bush-shit. Very interesting.
However, think about this: why was it that Dubya was re-elected, mostly by "Bible-believing Christians" in the Southeastern, Midwestern and Intermountain West? Especially when you consider implantable VeriChips were approved for human use by the FDA during George W. Bush's first administration. This would mean that the Mark of the Beast, if RFID is really to be used in this way, was approved on George W. Bush's watch. And they re-elected the bastard!
My quetion to you: is George W. Bush the "Beast From The Sea," and is Dick Cheney his "False Prophet?" Or is it the other way around, with Dubya the front-man for the real Beast, Cheney? Or do you think this is not the case?
Another question and I'll wrap it up: what do you think of scholars who believe that the Book of Revelation is an allegory for Roman persecution of Early Christianity, both Hebrew and Greek, and the destruction of the Great Temple by Roman forces under Emperor Titus? Are you aware that Nero Caesar has a value of either 616 or 666 according to how you transliterate it in Hebrew and valuate it according to Hebrew Gematria?
I'm just curious. I was a believer, I'm not now. As a woman, I consider Christianity to be repugnant, just like I do the Judaism I was born into and the Islam that was basically Judaism made palatable for the Arabian tribes. Most non-Abrahamic religions are quite patriarchal as well. However, I would not consent to implantation of VeriChip. I find it an unacceptable breach of my privacy, and potentially hazardous to my health. It's also...umm...spooky, if you know what I mean. No freakin' way. Hang it around my neck, put it in my employee badge. That's OK. Implant it? That's where I draw the line.
Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you. I filter all email from .cn anyway as a matter of course, so if they're going to create their own alternative DNS and everything and sever themselves from ICANN, then cool. Go away and take your spam relays with you.
I predict that spam traffic will plummet after this happens. Enjoy your walled-garden MiddleKingdom.Net. Have fun. When you are ready to rejoin the civilized world, let us all know. Oh yeah, and when you are ready, lock down those damn SMTP servers, dammit.
...would just be the other shoe dropping.
Think of history. Gil Amelio buys NeXT for technology to move The Rhapsody Project (next generation Mac OS) forward. He gets The Steve on the Board Of Directors as part of the bargain. Six months later, Amelio is out on his ass, and The Steve is iCEO.
I think that Disney will be harder for The Steve to assimilate than Apple was. I give it two years on the outside. Just two years.
Oh yeah, and for the naysayers who were talking about how Apple didn't swallow Pixar even though The Steve is CEO of both companies: The Steve owned Pixar before he was invited back to Apple.
Two years on the outside, folks. My fearless prediction.
And one other thing: Dvorak has been wrong before on many things. He is so wrong it's not funny on Apple ditching Mac OS X for Windows Vista. You *will* see Windows Vista running in virtualization as a guest OS on a Mac OS X host OS, you *may* see Apple selling Windows Vista for dual-boot as an option for game junkies, but you will *never* see abandonment of Mac OS X. It's The Steve's baby. His favorite to boot. I am completely serious about this.
"Thus, always, to tyrants."
:P
The flag of Virginia shows a woman standing over the body of a felled man. The man's crown has come off, showing that he was a king who has been toppled.
The imagery of that flag sometimes makes me think about what George W. Bush's fate would be if the world was just. It isn't. So it won't happen.
Spindler is the person to blame for the Performa boondoggle.
The telecom bust happened a year earlier. When the NASDAQ took its dive in 4/2000 it took a lot of telecoms with it.
Pour out a little liquor for Pacific Gateway Exchange. [sigh] Began to die in July of 2000. By January 2001 it was delisted and bankrupt. By April 2001 it was on the auction block.
"Trigger Rigid" armor. Right out of the book. John Brunner was the 1960s answer to Jules Verne.