Purdue University has a farm of web servers that run the webmail service, and it still experiences several complete shutdowns a year because kids refuse to use Outlook, Mail, etc to check their email. both from home and on campus. It may be a general statement, but its true for 95% of our student population, IE is their email client.
I use the Sport 400 Multi-Plier daily. It's smaller and lighter than the original tool. I'm working outside during the summers between school and its invaluable for day to day work, i couldn't go without mine. I have the full-size version on my bunker gear (i'm a volunteer firefighter) and its easy enough to operate even with gloves on. Just my $0.02.
I'd say leave them on the CD, but then Apple would have to cop to the whole "Driveless install" thing. remember the commercials? "Who wants to install drivers on christmas eve?!" Very few of my periferals REQUIRE drivers to operate, windows recognized most of them off the bat, i did eventually install the drivers for my mouse and keyboard, and the printer suite so i could make copies, and my driver list is as long as my....but oh well. i'm working on 6 months of uptime (without a reintall, not without reboots) and knock on wood i'm holding in there. The only time driver installs bother me is when i have to reinstall windows. I have too many drivers to muck aroudn slipstreaming and i tinker too much to make an image everytime i change hardware.
that the US legal system is 200 years old, a mess of patchwork laws in itself, and is no way ready to deal with digital crimes. Look at our laws against computer hacking, copyright violation, etc. None of them are adequate, and they won't be made that way for a while. You can't have a bunch of career politicians, who have never written software or in many cases never used a computer, writing laws based on what the highest bidder tells them is right and wrong. Its just like a career politician writing laws that govern abortion, drugs, alcohol, traffic (who in the US senate still drives themselves around?), etc. I lost faith in the American legal system a long time ago. its goign to take a lot of changing before i will even begin to show any faith in it again.
iTunes, free. Picasa (google's picture system) free. Movie Editor, if i can only afford an iMac or a budget PC, what makes you think i can get my hands on a $500 DV camera that takes movies WORTH editing? Do people REALLY edit that much video?
That said, iLife is the shit, and i can't wait to get my PB to really get into it. i just hope the next version of iWork makes it just as useful as iLife!
you really dont' get out much do you? A single Logitech DiNovo bluetooth hub will support upwards of 30+ Bluetooth devices. Same goes for just about every bluetooth reciever i've had to deal with.
Here's my thoughts, i agree that apple designs throwaways, in the sense that they aren't upgradable.
But when it comes to laptops there isn't much that can compete. i'll take a Powerbook long before i'll take another PC laptop (my current toshiba is on deck to be replaced this summer with a new PB). My parent's next computer i will either be an iMac or a Mac Mini, and my father's next laptop will probably be a powerbook or an iBook.
While i'm like you, i've been building PCs for quite some time, and am not about to stop, There are many things Apples does well. Those among us who are hardware junkies who want to stay on top of things will keep building PCs. But for the 'family' computer that does record keeping and web surfing, or the web-browsing laptop, there isn't much that can beat Apples in terms of longetivity, quality, and in most cases, price.
While i agree and i think it's a good rationale for Apple, why in the hell doesn't microsoft at least establish more standards than basic system requirements for Windows? At the very least use some of their capital and business clout to certify hardware, not just drivers (their driver ceritfication program sucks, btw).
i mean come on. are they afraid we're going to say they're copying THAT strategy from Apple too?
I did a rather large paper for a history class last semester on this topic. it's in PDF at www.nick.eevfd.com/hubblehistory.pdf. I came up with pretty interesting stuff in those 20-odd pages, a lot of it surprised me. Like the fact that Kodak Eastman made a backup mirror for the damned thing incase Perkins Elmer messed it up, but because of the business politics and NASA's own internal politics the Kodak mirror was ignored.
Also of note is that the 4th service mission would mark the end of teh COSTAR package, since all the instruments after that mission woudl have corrective optics built in, thereby freeing that 5th modular bay for another instrument, i can't remember which one, it should be in that paper.
Well, i guess i should have clarified, gigabit hardware, even consumer level stuff, has more backplane capacity than 10/100 shit does. So if multiple computers are doing multiple streams of large files then you're going to see an advantage. As far as consumer level hardware being total shit, i almost want to agree, but i'm not giving $300 for a managed switch to network a handful of boxes. I might not be getting as much performance as i could, but i'm still getting more than i can saturate, which is the entire point of putting gigabit in the house setting anyway, just like i said, to shift bottlenecks.
And FYI, no i don't have any realtek chips in any of my boxes. One's got an Intel chip and the other has a Via chip if i remember correctly.
hmm...that's funny...i have used DLink stuff almost exclusively, the only hardware i've had die on me on the networking side is Linksys. DLink 514 router in my roommate's bedroom, 810 bridge to 5 power switch in my room which goes out to two desktops with two spare ports for machines i'm working on and/or my laptop if i need faster speeds. a 520 PCI card in one of the dekstops that served me loyally for almost a year until i got the bridge and switch. 650 Wireless PCMCIA card in my laptop...no problems there. Good range, fast for.11b.
and no 10Mbit isn't faster than G, more reliable, duh, it's a copper connection vs airwaves that can be affected by microwave ovens. As far as gaming over wireless, why not? The only gaming i've really done has been over 802.11b. HALO and UT2k4 do just fine. Even before i had my own gear i used my old roommate's Apple Airport and we had several people over at once gaming both on the WLAN and out over the net over DSL. All these 'hardcore' gamers, who haven't seen the sun in a few years and are diabetic due to their restricted diets of red bull and pizza are hilarious.
If you're a script kiddie great, but not everything is marketing hype, and not everything sucks just because YOU had a bad experience with it.
Ya know, i'm really sorry YOU only have one computer in your house. Some of us have several that we actually try to stream audio and video over. Ever try streaming a Divx over 10/100 still being able to access teh net at the same time? Bandwidth is precious. even in-house i can't get enough. Get a clue, adn if you already have one quit trolling posts.
Gigabit is the holy grail of home networking. When i'm moving large amounts of data from one of my comps to the other i can saturate 10/100 in a hurry. With gigabit i move the bottleneck back to my HDD access times. With my roommate's Powerbook on my lan we moved a few gigs of movies, streamed audio (with no hiccups) and i still had bandwidth left over to surf the net and remote desktop into my other desktop (gigabit also) over a gigbit switch. Is gigabit necessary? no. But it sure as hell is nice when you want it. For gaming it does the same thing, just moves a bottleneck that you'll never saturate anyway.
That that is just cruel. There are already a ton of concept products out there people have photoshopped that i only wish Apple would adopt, now the list is even longer:( an iNewt or any of hte varies of updated newtons, Tablet Powerbooks, video ipods (which a tabletPB with a 9" screen would work for as well;) ).
The only association that man has ever had with a Wal-Mart may be reviewing their stock options. You don't buy stuff from Wal-Mart if you wear Armani...
I've not even made it to the naive college-grad stage yet (just the naive college kid right now) and i can tell you that if you have better offers and you're not in a LEGALLY BINDING contract (your signature on a cocktail napkin is more binding than some agreements i've seen (including apartment leases)) with your current employer i'd give him the 2 weeks, 4 if you want to be nice and show a new college grad the ropes, and get the hell out.
Unless he's willing to pay competitive rates for your consulting work (which is what your on-call stuff would be) then by all means serve whatever purpose he needs and charge his ass as much as you can get away with.
If he's not willing to pay the money then tell him to find another sucker. What's he going to do? sue you? Where's he gonna win at? Fairyland State Court is out of session right now. If he DID sue you, just file a counter suit and when you win you get even MORE money AND you get your lawyer fees paid (i think...depends on the charge)
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For each system i've built for friends and family lately i've gotten an expanding file for all their manuals and docs and shit, and a.97 12-CD case for all their driver disks, and tuck it in teh back pocket of the expanding file. Makes it nice for me when i go to work on stuff and need a disc or manual, i know where they are and they won't lose the damned things either. The binders i bought were bright colors too, so it would either be easy to spot, or easy to remember where they hid it. This system worked so good i went to it at home, since i never use driver discs but want to keep them around JIC, i use cheap binders and keep all my docs and discs for each system together. For my core of software discs i have an alstop steel case binder sitting on my desk that has a ton of stuff stacked on it now, doesn't mind the abuse. It came with 12 sleeves but i have about 15 in it and it doesn't mind. I have several 50 Disc spindles in the closet, some full of AOL discs (frisbee parties, coasters, whatever i need'em for) some full of old music CD-Rs i've burnt over the years. In my toolbox i have one of those visor CD holders with copies of WinXP, Win98 Win2000 a linux boot disc and a semi-up-to-date compilation of troubleshooting and fix-it software.
If you look in the rubbermaid tote section of walmart they have some fliptop boxes that are made for jewel cases and others that are made for DVDs. I have one cd box i use for my game cases (the games are in a binder somewhere around here...) and several DVD boxes i use to keep all my DVDs contained (but i always end up with a large stack on my desk...).
Anyway, there is no RIGHT way to do this, i've found. It either works for you, or it doesn't, end of story. PLay around til you come up with a system that works for ya, and go from there.
They can make 5 cents from me a whole buncha times, or they can be broke. I gave up buying CDs because digital music is a better alternative. I quit downloading legit music because if you lose the one copy you have, in most cases (well, Apple's case, since i own an iPod) i'm not guarenteed rights to re-download that music, even though i 'own' it.
Give me 5 cent songs, with the RIGHTS to those songs, to do whatever i want with them, if i want to put them on my iPod, or my Lyra, or my PDA, or a couple of CDRs for the car or an MP3CD to play in my DVD player or on any of the several PCs i have scattered about, and you'll have a customer.
They're going to have to make it cheap enough to make the convienence worth it to casual pirates. Those who pirate the new britney spears album just so they can listen to it for a week before throwing it out. The hardcore pirates are never going to buy music again. But there are those too lazy to use bittorrent, or XXX or XXXXXX to download music, and they'd pay 5cents just to have a song.
The last CD i bought had the FBI Anti-Piracy logo deal on teh back and i haven't even looked down the CD aisles since. I have enough music right now to keep me happy for a while, long after the RIAA goes bankrupt with lawyers fees and lawsuits and broke business models.
I have said it before and i'll say it again, put control of the music in the hands of the artists. Let them determine how much their music is worth, and let them market it directly. Piss on paying for mix artists who work for $300/hr and Studio execs whose yearly salaries are more than i'll make in a decade, who have nothing to do with music but promotion. It sickens me to think that the $1000-2000 in CDs i have at home helped to sue some poor sole so they could take him for 5000 or 10,000 more because they have the market monopolized. Even worse that the government that is in place to serve and protect me is entertaining that monopoly.
I've carried Gerber blades almost exclusively for 5 years now. I have a Leatherman, one of the originals, and hate it. i *had* a Gerber Sport Multiplier but it has gone missing. Hopefully i will find it by summer when i need it most. I have a full size set to replace it if it doesn't turn up, but the sports are a little more compact, lighter, and just as robust. all the tools lock with the best locking method i've seen on any mutlitool yet, it holds the blade with no worries, yet can be disengaged even if you're wearing gloves (very important since i wear gloves quite a bit at work). the scissors on it are invaluable, they make quick use of zip ties, and the screwdrivers have bailed me out several times. If i don't find the sport by summer i may have to go buy another, the larger version is heavier and more gangly to me, plus it lacks the scissors. Mine got a daily bath and wipe down with lubricant and never jammed, it just became part of my morning routine when i got to the shop, but in a less dirty enviroment you could get away with oiling once a week.
no matter what you end up with, they're just like any other good tool, if you want it to last you have to take care of it. not using it for a crowbar and oiling is a good start. Get a good can of high quality lubricant, youhave to watch WD-40 because it will gum up, and some of those silicon lubricants do the same. once a week just get an old rag, take the tool outside, spray it down with the oil then wipe off excess with the rag, work each tool and the pliers a few times to work the oil in and dirt out, wipe it down again, replace in sheath.
These people are becoming rare. In fifty years a guy that can put a house down on top of a good foundation will probably never hurt for money. tell me about it...I have two really good friends, a couple of cousins, plus my father who's been doing construction work forever it seems, who all know something or other about putting down a good base for things to sit on. the fact that the cousins own a large construction company that i can go 'borrow' equipment from so long as it's not in use and i return it with a full tank of fuel, and the two friends already owe me enough favors to build a house upon, i'm not worried when i start pourin' concrete for mine:)
A) i've neve rhad to enter a product key. You enter the activation code or wahtever they generate for you on screen. actually come to think of it it's in 6 digit blocks and not five. sorry for the mix up.
Ah, you left out something, with Apple's Pages a direct alternative to what most people use the most in Office (Word) for 50 bucks, plus you get presentation software, iWork + Mac Mini + OSX = Bad for Microsoft. I find it funny how Apple flaunts Office 2004 as being one of the best pieces of software for the Mac, ever, then they release something that i consider being in direct competition, at least in some way, with it.
My Powerbook is coming, if i'd quit spending money on my PCs, which should be just able over for a while...
Yes, but you never have to pay if you don't want to. Hell i know people who are still running OS9, several who run the original 10.0, 10.1 or 10.2. Only those who wnat the bleeding edge will upgrade. Most common users could give a shit.
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Purdue University has a farm of web servers that run the webmail service, and it still experiences several complete shutdowns a year because kids refuse to use Outlook, Mail, etc to check their email. both from home and on campus. It may be a general statement, but its true for 95% of our student population, IE is their email client.
I use the Sport 400 Multi-Plier daily. It's smaller and lighter than the original tool. I'm working outside during the summers between school and its invaluable for day to day work, i couldn't go without mine. I have the full-size version on my bunker gear (i'm a volunteer firefighter) and its easy enough to operate even with gloves on. Just my $0.02.
I'd say leave them on the CD, but then Apple would have to cop to the whole "Driveless install" thing. remember the commercials? "Who wants to install drivers on christmas eve?!" Very few of my periferals REQUIRE drivers to operate, windows recognized most of them off the bat, i did eventually install the drivers for my mouse and keyboard, and the printer suite so i could make copies, and my driver list is as long as my....but oh well. i'm working on 6 months of uptime (without a reintall, not without reboots) and knock on wood i'm holding in there. The only time driver installs bother me is when i have to reinstall windows. I have too many drivers to muck aroudn slipstreaming and i tinker too much to make an image everytime i change hardware.
that the US legal system is 200 years old, a mess of patchwork laws in itself, and is no way ready to deal with digital crimes. Look at our laws against computer hacking, copyright violation, etc. None of them are adequate, and they won't be made that way for a while. You can't have a bunch of career politicians, who have never written software or in many cases never used a computer, writing laws based on what the highest bidder tells them is right and wrong. Its just like a career politician writing laws that govern abortion, drugs, alcohol, traffic (who in the US senate still drives themselves around?), etc. I lost faith in the American legal system a long time ago. its goign to take a lot of changing before i will even begin to show any faith in it again.
iTunes, free. Picasa (google's picture system) free. Movie Editor, if i can only afford an iMac or a budget PC, what makes you think i can get my hands on a $500 DV camera that takes movies WORTH editing? Do people REALLY edit that much video?
That said, iLife is the shit, and i can't wait to get my PB to really get into it. i just hope the next version of iWork makes it just as useful as iLife!
you really dont' get out much do you? A single Logitech DiNovo bluetooth hub will support upwards of 30+ Bluetooth devices. Same goes for just about every bluetooth reciever i've had to deal with.
Here's my thoughts, i agree that apple designs throwaways, in the sense that they aren't upgradable.
But when it comes to laptops there isn't much that can compete. i'll take a Powerbook long before i'll take another PC laptop (my current toshiba is on deck to be replaced this summer with a new PB). My parent's next computer i will either be an iMac or a Mac Mini, and my father's next laptop will probably be a powerbook or an iBook.
While i'm like you, i've been building PCs for quite some time, and am not about to stop, There are many things Apples does well. Those among us who are hardware junkies who want to stay on top of things will keep building PCs. But for the 'family' computer that does record keeping and web surfing, or the web-browsing laptop, there isn't much that can beat Apples in terms of longetivity, quality, and in most cases, price.
While i agree and i think it's a good rationale for Apple, why in the hell doesn't microsoft at least establish more standards than basic system requirements for Windows? At the very least use some of their capital and business clout to certify hardware, not just drivers (their driver ceritfication program sucks, btw).
i mean come on. are they afraid we're going to say they're copying THAT strategy from Apple too?
I did a rather large paper for a history class last semester on this topic. it's in PDF at www.nick.eevfd.com/hubblehistory.pdf. I came up with pretty interesting stuff in those 20-odd pages, a lot of it surprised me. Like the fact that Kodak Eastman made a backup mirror for the damned thing incase Perkins Elmer messed it up, but because of the business politics and NASA's own internal politics the Kodak mirror was ignored.
Also of note is that the 4th service mission would mark the end of teh COSTAR package, since all the instruments after that mission woudl have corrective optics built in, thereby freeing that 5th modular bay for another instrument, i can't remember which one, it should be in that paper.
Depends on if you're LAN gaming or WAN gaming now doesn't it :-p
Well, i guess i should have clarified, gigabit hardware, even consumer level stuff, has more backplane capacity than 10/100 shit does. So if multiple computers are doing multiple streams of large files then you're going to see an advantage. As far as consumer level hardware being total shit, i almost want to agree, but i'm not giving $300 for a managed switch to network a handful of boxes. I might not be getting as much performance as i could, but i'm still getting more than i can saturate, which is the entire point of putting gigabit in the house setting anyway, just like i said, to shift bottlenecks.
And FYI, no i don't have any realtek chips in any of my boxes. One's got an Intel chip and the other has a Via chip if i remember correctly.
hmm...that's funny...i have used DLink stuff almost exclusively, the only hardware i've had die on me on the networking side is Linksys. DLink 514 router in my roommate's bedroom, 810 bridge to 5 power switch in my room which goes out to two desktops with two spare ports for machines i'm working on and/or my laptop if i need faster speeds. a 520 PCI card in one of the dekstops that served me loyally for almost a year until i got the bridge and switch. 650 Wireless PCMCIA card in my laptop...no problems there. Good range, fast for .11b.
and no 10Mbit isn't faster than G, more reliable, duh, it's a copper connection vs airwaves that can be affected by microwave ovens. As far as gaming over wireless, why not? The only gaming i've really done has been over 802.11b. HALO and UT2k4 do just fine. Even before i had my own gear i used my old roommate's Apple Airport and we had several people over at once gaming both on the WLAN and out over the net over DSL. All these 'hardcore' gamers, who haven't seen the sun in a few years and are diabetic due to their restricted diets of red bull and pizza are hilarious.
If you're a script kiddie great, but not everything is marketing hype, and not everything sucks just because YOU had a bad experience with it.
Ya know, i'm really sorry YOU only have one computer in your house. Some of us have several that we actually try to stream audio and video over. Ever try streaming a Divx over 10/100 still being able to access teh net at the same time? Bandwidth is precious. even in-house i can't get enough. Get a clue, adn if you already have one quit trolling posts.
Gigabit is the holy grail of home networking. When i'm moving large amounts of data from one of my comps to the other i can saturate 10/100 in a hurry. With gigabit i move the bottleneck back to my HDD access times. With my roommate's Powerbook on my lan we moved a few gigs of movies, streamed audio (with no hiccups) and i still had bandwidth left over to surf the net and remote desktop into my other desktop (gigabit also) over a gigbit switch. Is gigabit necessary? no. But it sure as hell is nice when you want it. For gaming it does the same thing, just moves a bottleneck that you'll never saturate anyway.
That that is just cruel. There are already a ton of concept products out there people have photoshopped that i only wish Apple would adopt, now the list is even longer :( an iNewt or any of hte varies of updated newtons, Tablet Powerbooks, video ipods (which a tabletPB with a 9" screen would work for as well ;) ).
Bush says "we got these at walmart"
The only association that man has ever had with a Wal-Mart may be reviewing their stock options. You don't buy stuff from Wal-Mart if you wear Armani...
Welcome...to Jurassic Park...
I've not even made it to the naive college-grad stage yet (just the naive college kid right now) and i can tell you that if you have better offers and you're not in a LEGALLY BINDING contract (your signature on a cocktail napkin is more binding than some agreements i've seen (including apartment leases)) with your current employer i'd give him the 2 weeks, 4 if you want to be nice and show a new college grad the ropes, and get the hell out.
Unless he's willing to pay competitive rates for your consulting work (which is what your on-call stuff would be) then by all means serve whatever purpose he needs and charge his ass as much as you can get away with.
If he's not willing to pay the money then tell him to find another sucker. What's he going to do? sue you? Where's he gonna win at? Fairyland State Court is out of session right now. If he DID sue you, just file a counter suit and when you win you get even MORE money AND you get your lawyer fees paid (i think...depends on the charge)
For each system i've built for friends and family lately i've gotten an expanding file for all their manuals and docs and shit, and a .97 12-CD case for all their driver disks, and tuck it in teh back pocket of the expanding file. Makes it nice for me when i go to work on stuff and need a disc or manual, i know where they are and they won't lose the damned things either. The binders i bought were bright colors too, so it would either be easy to spot, or easy to remember where they hid it. This system worked so good i went to it at home, since i never use driver discs but want to keep them around JIC, i use cheap binders and keep all my docs and discs for each system together. For my core of software discs i have an alstop steel case binder sitting on my desk that has a ton of stuff stacked on it now, doesn't mind the abuse. It came with 12 sleeves but i have about 15 in it and it doesn't mind. I have several 50 Disc spindles in the closet, some full of AOL discs (frisbee parties, coasters, whatever i need'em for) some full of old music CD-Rs i've burnt over the years. In my toolbox i have one of those visor CD holders with copies of WinXP, Win98 Win2000 a linux boot disc and a semi-up-to-date compilation of troubleshooting and fix-it software.
If you look in the rubbermaid tote section of walmart they have some fliptop boxes that are made for jewel cases and others that are made for DVDs. I have one cd box i use for my game cases (the games are in a binder somewhere around here...) and several DVD boxes i use to keep all my DVDs contained (but i always end up with a large stack on my desk...).
Anyway, there is no RIGHT way to do this, i've found. It either works for you, or it doesn't, end of story. PLay around til you come up with a system that works for ya, and go from there.
They can make 5 cents from me a whole buncha times, or they can be broke. I gave up buying CDs because digital music is a better alternative. I quit downloading legit music because if you lose the one copy you have, in most cases (well, Apple's case, since i own an iPod) i'm not guarenteed rights to re-download that music, even though i 'own' it.
Give me 5 cent songs, with the RIGHTS to those songs, to do whatever i want with them, if i want to put them on my iPod, or my Lyra, or my PDA, or a couple of CDRs for the car or an MP3CD to play in my DVD player or on any of the several PCs i have scattered about, and you'll have a customer.
They're going to have to make it cheap enough to make the convienence worth it to casual pirates. Those who pirate the new britney spears album just so they can listen to it for a week before throwing it out. The hardcore pirates are never going to buy music again. But there are those too lazy to use bittorrent, or XXX or XXXXXX to download music, and they'd pay 5cents just to have a song.
The last CD i bought had the FBI Anti-Piracy logo deal on teh back and i haven't even looked down the CD aisles since. I have enough music right now to keep me happy for a while, long after the RIAA goes bankrupt with lawyers fees and lawsuits and broke business models.
I have said it before and i'll say it again, put control of the music in the hands of the artists. Let them determine how much their music is worth, and let them market it directly. Piss on paying for mix artists who work for $300/hr and Studio execs whose yearly salaries are more than i'll make in a decade, who have nothing to do with music but promotion. It sickens me to think that the $1000-2000 in CDs i have at home helped to sue some poor sole so they could take him for 5000 or 10,000 more because they have the market monopolized. Even worse that the government that is in place to serve and protect me is entertaining that monopoly.
I've carried Gerber blades almost exclusively for 5 years now. I have a Leatherman, one of the originals, and hate it. i *had* a Gerber Sport Multiplier but it has gone missing. Hopefully i will find it by summer when i need it most. I have a full size set to replace it if it doesn't turn up, but the sports are a little more compact, lighter, and just as robust. all the tools lock with the best locking method i've seen on any mutlitool yet, it holds the blade with no worries, yet can be disengaged even if you're wearing gloves (very important since i wear gloves quite a bit at work). the scissors on it are invaluable, they make quick use of zip ties, and the screwdrivers have bailed me out several times. If i don't find the sport by summer i may have to go buy another, the larger version is heavier and more gangly to me, plus it lacks the scissors. Mine got a daily bath and wipe down with lubricant and never jammed, it just became part of my morning routine when i got to the shop, but in a less dirty enviroment you could get away with oiling once a week.
no matter what you end up with, they're just like any other good tool, if you want it to last you have to take care of it. not using it for a crowbar and oiling is a good start. Get a good can of high quality lubricant, youhave to watch WD-40 because it will gum up, and some of those silicon lubricants do the same. once a week just get an old rag, take the tool outside, spray it down with the oil then wipe off excess with the rag, work each tool and the pliers a few times to work the oil in and dirt out, wipe it down again, replace in sheath.
These people are becoming rare. In fifty years a guy that can put a house down on top of a good foundation will probably never hurt for money. :)
tell me about it...I have two really good friends, a couple of cousins, plus my father who's been doing construction work forever it seems, who all know something or other about putting down a good base for things to sit on. the fact that the cousins own a large construction company that i can go 'borrow' equipment from so long as it's not in use and i return it with a full tank of fuel, and the two friends already owe me enough favors to build a house upon, i'm not worried when i start pourin' concrete for mine
A) i've neve rhad to enter a product key. You enter the activation code or wahtever they generate for you on screen. actually come to think of it it's in 6 digit blocks and not five. sorry for the mix up.
Ah, you left out something, with Apple's Pages a direct alternative to what most people use the most in Office (Word) for 50 bucks, plus you get presentation software, iWork + Mac Mini + OSX = Bad for Microsoft. I find it funny how Apple flaunts Office 2004 as being one of the best pieces of software for the Mac, ever, then they release something that i consider being in direct competition, at least in some way, with it.
My Powerbook is coming, if i'd quit spending money on my PCs, which should be just able over for a while...
Yes, but you never have to pay if you don't want to. Hell i know people who are still running OS9, several who run the original 10.0, 10.1 or 10.2. Only those who wnat the bleeding edge will upgrade. Most common users could give a shit.