ummmm... steve-o was driving around pixar long before apple bought Next and got on their knees to have him return along with it.
you know... thanks to google... you really never have to look that young.
Well friend, i do respect your views on this subject. Your little piece on cambodia was nice. Oh by the way, we are not bombing Cambodia anymore. So you can be happy now.
Now it's my opinion time: More Carpet Bombing.
I don't know how i feel about obliterating people because they are communists. but i do know a few other things.
1. when you hijack and slam four jumbo jets full of innocent americans into things. then we will kill you.
2. when two of those things are the tallest buildings in our largest city. we will kill you
3. when those buildings collapse and take a huge chunk of lower manhattan and 5000+ lives with them. we will kill you.
4. attacking the pentagon is fair game. but we are still going to kill you.
5 anthrax is flowing like cocaine in hollywood. we are going to kill everyone.
Americans are not that special. there are a lot of things we do not do well, but one of the things we do well is this: homocide. We are spledid slaughterers of human life. we rock at it. we like it. we look for reasons to engage in it.
do not ever play america in a game of "i bet you won't come over here and kill all of us!" because you will loose.
we are a country that dropped atomic bombs, twice... remember that. america had exactly two atomic bombs in our arsonal. so how many did we use? both.
it is a shame that people can't seem to understand how much we love the killing. we get high minded and swear to god we won't kill the same way an alchoholic swears off gin, and then some assholes give us a reason to attend a mardi gras bender.
so anyway the only problem with the current b-52 attack on afghanistan is this: not enough carpet bombing.
Yes, digital media is volatile, but arguably much less so then chemical/photoreactive
media.
The amount of money you spend to keep those precious images safe depends on
how important it is to you to do so. For every day use there is nothing wrong
with CD-Rs, just keep them out of the sun and don't set your ashtray and/or
vodka-tonic on it. If you feel that you need better, look into better CD-Rs
suck as the Kodak Ultima
80s. Keep them in a nice safe shoebox on the top shelf of the hall closet
(in their cases, damnit) like you probably do those precious historical shots
of you riding a Big Wheel in your diapers.
If you are really proud of your work or you make some money with that camera,
well then invest in a quality hard drive, format it and only keep data on it.
The odds of it frying are poor (insert your IBM deskstar joke here) but if you
must get a couple and raid them for redundancy... that should buy you a couple
of years before something as stable as magneto-optical comes back and more useful...
Also, there is no shame in printing your best work (on the proper acid free
photo paper with lasting dyes) and keeping them somewhere safe as well, you
can always scan them back in if you need them binary. If you are really really
good and take actually historical shots, then pretty much the Internet is your
storage device, since there are usually at least hundreds of major university
servers worldwide holding untold thousands of versions of most of the most historical
of images.
As for compact or smart media, my Olympus E-10 takes both and can use microdrives
as well. This pretty much allows me to take as many damn photos as I want (badly,
usually) before I have to swap out either for an empty chip or card. Since the
argument is about digital publishing there is no need into getting into the
whole mess about huge tif files Vs small lo-res jpgs but with a couple of one
gig microdrives (and maybe a laptop or digital wallet to dump the data into)
all your whining is hollow.
(Speaking of which, Happy Halloween. Don't eat popcorn balls, they are nasty.
Also: candy-f**king-corn)
The real argument is pretty much, if you are a real artist, the price of a
digital that can come close to a quality (read professional) 35mm and the equipment
it takes to process the data to the degree a pro can manipulate negs in a darkroom
is still waaaaay too expensive. But not for long. I wish I could whine along
with the "technology is bad for us" crowd, but not this time.
Um, this is kind of a ridiculously over technical little piece. But most of us would rather hack off a limb then buy a Gateway or a Dell... (Notebooks are another thing... though i wouldnt buy a gateway notebook at gunpoint.)
Actually the preponderance of Slashdot readers are "do-it-yourself-ers" when it comes to hardware, usually because either you can build better cheap boxes useing speciallized hardware, or you can build boxen so over the top powerful that the mass manufacturers couldnt touch them. (Though companies like alienware and voodoo spank most of us on the high end, in terms of cost vs. quality)
So anyways be careful about sweeping generalizations, they make you look less then sharp. (Though personally I do have to agree that there are probably only like 11 guys out there that are printing this article so that they can re-read it in bed.)
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"Everytime I turn on the television and see that the government has it's thought-stealing satellites out beaming their lasers on me, broadcasting my ideas and secrets on NBC. Well I would reach for my tin foil helmet...
That is until i found there are laws to protect me now. Thanks WIPO! I just wish there were laws to make the neighbors dog stop ordering me to kill."
yes actually. i am. tell me. what do you find so compelling about this bad boy? as someone that is obviously a ninja hardware man. i would love to hear what you think.
also. please explain computers to me. if i where to say get a 1U rack case and drop in a athalon board, a nic, a firewire card, a nice sized drive, a good sound card with digital outs and install mandrake or debian... how am i screwed out of this wholesome HP experience?
(oh yeah, i realize that i cant get the rackmount case at best buy, but i can get a funky little antec, and i still think i would be miles ahead. but i am new to all of this and implore you to educate me as to my neophite madness.)
Hmmmm, it seems to have some proprietary OS that is married to "Real" software products (which i hate), it works with "select" mp3 and portable music players, which sounds like it's RIAA approved. it has no firewire so adding drive space is a bitch. it has no interactive television capibilities....
this is shit. sorry to be glib but this is the most unexciting componant entertainment solution i have ever seen. i am sure just about every slashdot reader could build a better box then this with off the shelf parts at a best buy.
*frightened, smiling broadly and nodding head at monitor*
I don't know about you. but i like the fact that someone has cleaned up the language a bit. what with all the rudeness i see on television. maybe if the taliban had a nice big brother to look into what they were doing and reading, well there wouldn't be so much of this unpleasentness in euroasia.
I feel liberated by not having to think so much about what is happening with the prolitarians and haveing someone doing my thinking for me. Civil liberties and freedom of speech only confuse people and get them into trouble...
When I purchased my copy of XP it came with a webcam/dongle with the instructions, "Brother Bill wants to watch you watching XP".
{end sarcasm}
jesus h knickers... not that Apple is the peoples computer, but when they made the commercial of that chick whipping the hammer at the "telescreen" they eluded it was IBM that was the vile BB.
I hope they take this to more absurd extremes actually, i really want to see the audacity get silly. Remember, Joe Macarthy would have been called a hero if it wasn't for Roy Cohne to get so ridiculous that the nation would no longer tolerate them.
Absolutely well stated, as another NJB owner i could not agree more.
I would add this as well, nothing I own with an Apple logo has ever broken on me. (color classic, IIci, IIfx, Quadra 650, 8100, 8500, Beige G3 and my current TiPowerbook and too new to tell G4 tower) they just become old and obsolete perhaps but they don't stop working. (yay yellowdog and debian). before the flames begin, i am sure Apples break, and that perhaps your Apple (or your mom's, whatever) has. I am just stating that mine have not.
Meanwhile, my Nomad Jukebox fell from my night stand to my luxuriously thick carpeted floor, and wham, dead. this was a two foot fall. Creative still has not resolved this. I am willing to bet (especially since the drive heads park on the wee toshiba drive) that this wouldn't have happened with the iPod.
besides... no one what to get me for christmas anymore. this will change.
True and thanks for the heads up. but again check out my link
and get support for 10.1, explanations on the differences between Apple's Included Apache and PHP modules and other builds, as well as support for upgrading from 10.0.x. For OS 10.1 fans
that are a bit iffy with BSD, this guy
is a geek deity.
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It's especially true in your case- you force them both on anyone around you.
I force them? with.... my "you must read my comment" ray-gun? no no no, little cunt. no one is forcing you to do anything at all. as a matter of fact i urge you express yourself and your own opinions as often as possible.
with all this anthrax we can use the comic relief
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Sounds to me like he already had his opinion about the machine before he ever laid a hand on it. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink.
never mind the fact that you have just stated an opinion. genius. but my mom says that all the time. you sound like my mom. clever.
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Was his review of the XBox after Playing Odd World on it:
I can't say how much the Xbox sucks!
It really sucks...
The Xbox sux it really really sux!!!
I am really not sure why I enjoyed both hearing that, and they way he said it. I preorded a Game Cube too...
jackass.
microsoft is a publicly held company and the the public expects it grow. they face tapped markets and a tapped business models and unfriendly economy.
microsoft is not a man with a big bag of money.,
moron.
Incentive \In*cen"tive\, a. [L. incentivus, from incinere to strike up or set the tune; pref. in- + canere to sing. See Enchant, Chant.]
1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action;
stimulative.
It would appear that Microsoft is not seeing the numbers they would like in Office XP sales. They have the audacity to host a media extravaganza including Madonna in New York to hoopla WinXP, despite recent events (they want to "show the world that America is still doing business"... that costs money... they are launching Xbox next month. That will cost money. the economy is bad, and people are keeping both hands on their wallets...
I may be wrong here... but it looks to me like i am seeing a sick company...
Desperation \Des`per*a"tion\, n. [L. desperatio: cf. OF.desperation.]
1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up
of hope.
2. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of
hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
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you just might be my favorite troll at the moment. kudus for creativity and originality.
cause if you are for real. you are so a fucktard.
I not only fly out of O'hare often but I also often have to meet people in the terminals.
I would never claim that O'hare has better then average security, but i recall since at least 1999 (in at least the United, American and Delta terminals) i have been asked to turn on my Palm Pilot or Laptop. (though i can't remember them checking my cell, ever)
I never thought twice about it. I think it's creepy that even after recent events other airports don't.
I never thought I would be using Apple products this late in the game. It used
to be overpriced and sometimes underpowered. It was a pain in the ass most times.
But what it did it did well. I loved them, but it was hard to do. The company
was run by both jagoffs and hippy jagoffs, and it seemed like all they were
good for was creating great technology and never supporting it, backing it or
implementing it to any practical degree (if you remember the features added
and removed between system 7.1 and say... 8.1 you will know exactly what
I am talking about) and everything was too expensive. Though since one of the
hats I wore was the art/publishing director for a friend's wee company.
I also always had at least one up and running.
Then I was gifted with a 500Mhz Ti PowerBook (long story, yes i am a lucky
bastard)
Imagine my surprise that it's 2001 and I actually spending more time on
my PowerBook then any of my other boxes, yes including my beloved Mandrake
rocketbox which has all my terabytes (sarcasm) of of mp3s (and pr0n).
Out of
the box since last May and running OS 9.1 this little gem had single handedly
replaced the beige G3 I was running and I get to take it and work home with
me. Yeah I wound up replacing some SCSI hardware with firewire, but it wasn't
like I had huge raid cabinet running, just the odd scanner and oddball peripheri
(anyone interested in a couple of SyQuest 44 and 88s?).
That alone is enough for me to give Apple the big nod. But ever since I installed
OS 10.1 I have actually felt giddy about an OS in a way I have not felt since
I first installed Red Hat on a whim back in 1995. I am having fun again...
it is cool to hack on this little bastard. I really never messed with or concerned
myself with BSD before, honestly, but shit it's like talking to a Canadian,
it's not all that hard. I installed MySql
today on it tonight, you wanna know why? Cause I could. I wanted to mess around
with it on the train tomorrow. When was the last time you felt like that? I
never feel that way with Linux anymore (it's just a good solid tool now,
I take it for granted). I hardly ever boot the Win2K box, (I find it is more
"secure" that way) unless I want to play Arcanum or something MS specific.
But who needs games when you have grep?
This wee little PowerBook along with OS 10.1 really kicks my ass. Now I find
myself doing the unthinkable and looking into G4 towers, but I think I am going
to wait for the G5 since Apple seems to be pumping out new models every six
to eight months. Get one of them DVD burners and transfer all my pr0n (I mean
MP3s) off the drives.
Interesting how just about anyone that has ever re-financed a house, had to deal with insurance companies or has friends in corporate law knows instinctively that large multinational corporations can be vile. They have no problem being as dirty as it takes to win whatever it is they deem important to their interests. We know this, as we are big boys and girls.
But there is a whole new paradigm out there, successful geeks in positions of power that can arbitrate and dictate to the old guard of business. This still fascinates me. Even companies like Xerox and IBM had been toadying to the wall street/ Madison Avenue spirit of post-WWII business acumen since forever, so as that when the new school of geek economy was coming up the ranks they were perceived as aliens.
I don't even want to get into the whole old/new economy thing. Or how companies like Intel and HP blended the two models to be jaugernauts. I just get a strange thrill whenever i see the old school tide smash into the new school sea walls. (once upon a time problems like this would be handled at a country club with big business always winning, just look at how "fair" the FCC was/is at brokering bandwidth to the "public".)
Every time it happens the status que is forced to re-examine itself. How bad can that be?
check out the boards and the local computer fairs for old laptops, the black and white 486's are really cheap.
then see what you can get done with 'em. home made internet appliances, email stations, mp3 songlist fetching and playing from bathroom, whatever...
i am thinking of taking an anchient winbook with infra red and 10baseT and useing it as a master remote control unit.
but it won't be able to get me my beloved grey goose and lemonades... which is why i posted all those robot links earlier... gearheads? build/sell me a bartender.
Slashdot Mirror
ummmm... steve-o was driving around pixar long before apple bought Next and got on their knees to have him return along with it. you know... thanks to google... you really never have to look that young.
Well friend, i do respect your views on this subject. Your little piece on cambodia was nice. Oh by the way, we are not bombing Cambodia anymore. So you can be happy now.
Now it's my opinion time: More Carpet Bombing.
I don't know how i feel about obliterating people because they are communists. but i do know a few other things.
1. when you hijack and slam four jumbo jets full of innocent americans into things. then we will kill you.
2. when two of those things are the tallest buildings in our largest city. we will kill you
3. when those buildings collapse and take a huge chunk of lower manhattan and 5000+ lives with them. we will kill you.
4. attacking the pentagon is fair game. but we are still going to kill you.
5 anthrax is flowing like cocaine in hollywood. we are going to kill everyone.
Americans are not that special. there are a lot of things we do not do well, but one of the things we do well is this: homocide. We are spledid slaughterers of human life. we rock at it. we like it. we look for reasons to engage in it.
do not ever play america in a game of "i bet you won't come over here and kill all of us!" because you will loose.
we are a country that dropped atomic bombs, twice... remember that. america had exactly two atomic bombs in our arsonal. so how many did we use? both.
it is a shame that people can't seem to understand how much we love the killing. we get high minded and swear to god we won't kill the same way an alchoholic swears off gin, and then some assholes give us a reason to attend a mardi gras bender.
so anyway the only problem with the current b-52 attack on afghanistan is this: not enough carpet bombing.
i thank you for your attention.
Yes, digital media is volatile, but arguably much less so then chemical/photoreactive media.
The amount of money you spend to keep those precious images safe depends on how important it is to you to do so. For every day use there is nothing wrong with CD-Rs, just keep them out of the sun and don't set your ashtray and/or vodka-tonic on it. If you feel that you need better, look into better CD-Rs suck as the Kodak Ultima 80s. Keep them in a nice safe shoebox on the top shelf of the hall closet (in their cases, damnit) like you probably do those precious historical shots of you riding a Big Wheel in your diapers.
If you are really proud of your work or you make some money with that camera, well then invest in a quality hard drive, format it and only keep data on it. The odds of it frying are poor (insert your IBM deskstar joke here) but if you must get a couple and raid them for redundancy... that should buy you a couple of years before something as stable as magneto-optical comes back and more useful... Also, there is no shame in printing your best work (on the proper acid free photo paper with lasting dyes) and keeping them somewhere safe as well, you can always scan them back in if you need them binary. If you are really really good and take actually historical shots, then pretty much the Internet is your storage device, since there are usually at least hundreds of major university servers worldwide holding untold thousands of versions of most of the most historical of images.
As for compact or smart media, my Olympus E-10 takes both and can use microdrives as well. This pretty much allows me to take as many damn photos as I want (badly, usually) before I have to swap out either for an empty chip or card. Since the argument is about digital publishing there is no need into getting into the whole mess about huge tif files Vs small lo-res jpgs but with a couple of one gig microdrives (and maybe a laptop or digital wallet to dump the data into) all your whining is hollow.
(Speaking of which, Happy Halloween. Don't eat popcorn balls, they are nasty. Also: candy-f**king-corn)
The real argument is pretty much, if you are a real artist, the price of a digital that can come close to a quality (read professional) 35mm and the equipment it takes to process the data to the degree a pro can manipulate negs in a darkroom is still waaaaay too expensive. But not for long. I wish I could whine along with the "technology is bad for us" crowd, but not this time.
Um, this is kind of a ridiculously over technical little piece. But most of us would rather hack off a limb then buy a Gateway or a Dell... (Notebooks are another thing... though i wouldnt buy a gateway notebook at gunpoint.)
Actually the preponderance of Slashdot readers are "do-it-yourself-ers" when it comes to hardware, usually because either you can build better cheap boxes useing speciallized hardware, or you can build boxen so over the top powerful that the mass manufacturers couldnt touch them. (Though companies like alienware and voodoo spank most of us on the high end, in terms of cost vs. quality)
So anyways be careful about sweeping generalizations, they make you look less then sharp. (Though personally I do have to agree that there are probably only like 11 guys out there that are printing this article so that they can re-read it in bed.)
"Everytime I turn on the television and see that the government has it's thought-stealing satellites out beaming their lasers on me, broadcasting my ideas and secrets on NBC. Well I would reach for my tin foil helmet...
That is until i found there are laws to protect me now. Thanks WIPO! I just wish there were laws to make the neighbors dog stop ordering me to kill."
yes actually. i am. tell me. what do you find so compelling about this bad boy? as someone that is obviously a ninja hardware man. i would love to hear what you think.
also. please explain computers to me. if i where to say get a 1U rack case and drop in a athalon board, a nic, a firewire card, a nice sized drive, a good sound card with digital outs and install mandrake or debian... how am i screwed out of this wholesome HP experience?
(oh yeah, i realize that i cant get the rackmount case at best buy, but i can get a funky little antec, and i still think i would be miles ahead. but i am new to all of this and implore you to educate me as to my neophite madness.)
Hmmmm, it seems to have some proprietary OS that is married to "Real" software products (which i hate), it works with "select" mp3 and portable music players, which sounds like it's RIAA approved. it has no firewire so adding drive space is a bitch. it has no interactive television capibilities....
this is shit. sorry to be glib but this is the most unexciting componant entertainment solution i have ever seen. i am sure just about every slashdot reader could build a better box then this with off the shelf parts at a best buy.
*frightened, smiling broadly and nodding head at monitor*
I don't know about you. but i like the fact that someone has cleaned up the language a bit. what with all the rudeness i see on television. maybe if the taliban had a nice big brother to look into what they were doing and reading, well there wouldn't be so much of this unpleasentness in euroasia.
I feel liberated by not having to think so much about what is happening with the prolitarians and haveing someone doing my thinking for me. Civil liberties and freedom of speech only confuse people and get them into trouble...
When I purchased my copy of XP it came with a webcam/dongle with the instructions, "Brother Bill wants to watch you watching XP".
{end sarcasm}
jesus h knickers... not that Apple is the peoples computer, but when they made the commercial of that chick whipping the hammer at the "telescreen" they eluded it was IBM that was the vile BB.
I hope they take this to more absurd extremes actually, i really want to see the audacity get silly. Remember, Joe Macarthy would have been called a hero if it wasn't for Roy Cohne to get so ridiculous that the nation would no longer tolerate them.
I hope the kinder dosent try rocket-jumping with LAWS portable rocket launchers...
Absolutely well stated, as another NJB owner i could not agree more.
I would add this as well, nothing I own with an Apple logo has ever broken on me. (color classic, IIci, IIfx, Quadra 650, 8100, 8500, Beige G3 and my current TiPowerbook and too new to tell G4 tower) they just become old and obsolete perhaps but they don't stop working. (yay yellowdog and debian). before the flames begin, i am sure Apples break, and that perhaps your Apple (or your mom's, whatever) has. I am just stating that mine have not.
Meanwhile, my Nomad Jukebox fell from my night stand to my luxuriously thick carpeted floor, and wham, dead. this was a two foot fall. Creative still has not resolved this. I am willing to bet (especially since the drive heads park on the wee toshiba drive) that this wouldn't have happened with the iPod.
besides... no one what to get me for christmas anymore. this will change.
True and thanks for the heads up. but again check out my link and get support for 10.1, explanations on the differences between Apple's Included Apache and PHP modules and other builds, as well as support for upgrading from 10.0.x. For OS 10.1 fans that are a bit iffy with BSD, this guy is a geek deity.
It's especially true in your case- you force them both on anyone around you.
I force them? with.... my "you must read my comment" ray-gun? no no no, little cunt. no one is forcing you to do anything at all. as a matter of fact i urge you express yourself and your own opinions as often as possible.
with all this anthrax we can use the comic relief
Sounds to me like he already had his opinion about the machine before he ever laid a hand on it. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink.
never mind the fact that you have just stated an opinion. genius. but my mom says that all the time. you sound like my mom. clever.
Was his review of the XBox after Playing Odd World on it:
I can't say how much the Xbox sucks!
It really sucks...
The Xbox sux it really really sux!!!
I am really not sure why I enjoyed both hearing that, and they way he said it. I preorded a Game Cube too...
Read again. not upset. amused.
these are indeed english words and not code. do not attempt to find the hidden meaning.
I was going to reply to your rather angry response in kind, until i looked at your member information and read your previous posts.
you are one hell of a Microsoft apologist. I smell an agenda and probably employment.
They will probably call this flaimbait. but you sir, are the man. this amuses me. my comment was so trivial and unpointed and you are so upset.
That really amuses me. Take your agenda elsewhere, this is supposed to be free discussion. I am glad I didn't vent my spleen on you.
jackass. microsoft is a publicly held company and the the public expects it grow. they face tapped markets and a tapped business models and unfriendly economy. microsoft is not a man with a big bag of money., moron.
Incentive \In*cen"tive\, a. [L. incentivus, from incinere to strike up or set the tune; pref. in- + canere to sing. See Enchant, Chant.]
1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action;
stimulative.
It would appear that Microsoft is not seeing the numbers they would like in Office XP sales. They have the audacity to host a media extravaganza including Madonna in New York to hoopla WinXP, despite recent events (they want to "show the world that America is still doing business"... that costs money... they are launching Xbox next month. That will cost money. the economy is bad, and people are keeping both hands on their wallets...
I may be wrong here... but it looks to me like i am seeing a sick company...
Desperation \Des`per*a"tion\, n. [L. desperatio: cf. OF.desperation.]
1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up
of hope.
2. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of
hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
you just might be my favorite troll at the moment. kudus for creativity and originality. cause if you are for real. you are so a fucktard.
I not only fly out of O'hare often but I also often have to meet people in the terminals.
I would never claim that O'hare has better then average security, but i recall since at least 1999 (in at least the United, American and Delta terminals) i have been asked to turn on my Palm Pilot or Laptop. (though i can't remember them checking my cell, ever)
I never thought twice about it. I think it's creepy that even after recent events other airports don't.
Of course, Be my guest.
- motherhead
(okay great, first i wanted to post the as an AC because it was incidental, now i have to avoid the lameness filter...
okay a joke.
What's the difference between the Taliban and Christmas?
Christmas will be here in December.
Thank you ladies and gentlemen, good night and enjoy the rest of the show.)
I never thought I would be using Apple products this late in the game. It used to be overpriced and sometimes underpowered. It was a pain in the ass most times. But what it did it did well. I loved them, but it was hard to do. The company was run by both jagoffs and hippy jagoffs, and it seemed like all they were good for was creating great technology and never supporting it, backing it or implementing it to any practical degree (if you remember the features added and removed between system 7.1 and say... 8.1 you will know exactly what I am talking about) and everything was too expensive. Though since one of the hats I wore was the art/publishing director for a friend's wee company. I also always had at least one up and running.
Then I was gifted with a 500Mhz Ti PowerBook (long story, yes i am a lucky bastard)
Imagine my surprise that it's 2001 and I actually spending more time on my PowerBook then any of my other boxes, yes including my beloved Mandrake rocketbox which has all my terabytes (sarcasm) of of mp3s (and pr0n).
Out of the box since last May and running OS 9.1 this little gem had single handedly replaced the beige G3 I was running and I get to take it and work home with me. Yeah I wound up replacing some SCSI hardware with firewire, but it wasn't like I had huge raid cabinet running, just the odd scanner and oddball peripheri (anyone interested in a couple of SyQuest 44 and 88s?).
That alone is enough for me to give Apple the big nod. But ever since I installed OS 10.1 I have actually felt giddy about an OS in a way I have not felt since I first installed Red Hat on a whim back in 1995. I am having fun again... it is cool to hack on this little bastard. I really never messed with or concerned myself with BSD before, honestly, but shit it's like talking to a Canadian, it's not all that hard. I installed MySql today on it tonight, you wanna know why? Cause I could. I wanted to mess around with it on the train tomorrow. When was the last time you felt like that? I never feel that way with Linux anymore (it's just a good solid tool now, I take it for granted). I hardly ever boot the Win2K box, (I find it is more "secure" that way) unless I want to play Arcanum or something MS specific. But who needs games when you have grep?
This wee little PowerBook along with OS 10.1 really kicks my ass. Now I find myself doing the unthinkable and looking into G4 towers, but I think I am going to wait for the G5 since Apple seems to be pumping out new models every six to eight months. Get one of them DVD burners and transfer all my pr0n (I mean MP3s) off the drives.
Surprised by their audaciousness? No.
Interesting how just about anyone that has ever re-financed a house, had to deal with insurance companies or has friends in corporate law knows instinctively that large multinational corporations can be vile. They have no problem being as dirty as it takes to win whatever it is they deem important to their interests. We know this, as we are big boys and girls.
But there is a whole new paradigm out there, successful geeks in positions of power that can arbitrate and dictate to the old guard of business. This still fascinates me. Even companies like Xerox and IBM had been toadying to the wall street/ Madison Avenue spirit of post-WWII business acumen since forever, so as that when the new school of geek economy was coming up the ranks they were perceived as aliens.
I don't even want to get into the whole old/new economy thing. Or how companies like Intel and HP blended the two models to be jaugernauts. I just get a strange thrill whenever i see the old school tide smash into the new school sea walls. (once upon a time problems like this would be handled at a country club with big business always winning, just look at how "fair" the FCC was/is at brokering bandwidth to the "public".)
Every time it happens the status que is forced to re-examine itself. How bad can that be?
check out the boards and the local computer fairs for old laptops, the black and white 486's are really cheap.
then see what you can get done with 'em. home made internet appliances, email stations, mp3 songlist fetching and playing from bathroom, whatever...
i am thinking of taking an anchient winbook with infra red and 10baseT and useing it as a master remote control unit.
but it won't be able to get me my beloved grey goose and lemonades... which is why i posted all those robot links earlier... gearheads? build/sell me a bartender.
Hackable toys...
Want some programable robots? how about just robot arms? then here.
Still more robot resources... (I am looking for killer robotic laser-beam eyes, if anyone has a link...)
Hackable portable DVD player, (might break the price limit though)
whoops, coffee's done...