The Reg has an article on 10 reasons to purchase a Mac from Apple. I’m pretty much hooked. I refuse to go to Vista with all of it’s let me help you attitude problems. I hate operating systems that will not let you do what you need to do on a computer. That puts the power in the OSes hands and not the user’s. That’s just philosophically wrong.
So here is the article at The Reg: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/21/ten_reasons_to_buy_a_mac/
I loaded the site today and my banner image had disappeared. No idea why. The file can’t be found on the server. It’s very strange. I haven’t logged in or edited the site in a few days. Not sure what happened. I’ve replaced the collage with a backup header image. This is very strange. I…
I’m receiving an error message right now. It appears to be pretty bad on the system. Might not be the Windows install. miht be something else. I load the LinuxLive CD for Mutagenix. Burned from an iso. Should be fine, as far as I can tell. CD starts the boot process and gives the following…
About a month ago, Woot had a special deal on a neat dual-screen tablet, the Entourage Pocket Edge. The Pocket Edge has a 7 inch Android tablet and a 6 inch eInk/ebook reader. The screens are hinged and fold together to the size of a medium paperback book. Makes for an interesting device. Originally, the…
I used to work at a company called iPIX. Like many other companies, it was struck down during the dot-com-bomb of 2000-2001. My job there was my dream job — and it stayed that way for the first 18 months. After that, things went downhill but not for what I was doing, but just things…
A Twitter post today mentioned the Maps of War, a site that has history maps with time lines showing the progression of different events overlaid on a map. Two of the maps caught my eye: Imperial History of the Middle East and the History of Religion. I’ve embedded both of them here. While not much…
If you haven’t heard, the NSA obtained a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court allowing them to collect data every day from Verizon cell phone customers. This data can include phone numbers, IP addresses, location data, unique identifiers, etc., but supposedly not the content of calls. The British news source The Guardian has…
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Right there with ya sister! I’m one more step closer to freedom from Windoze – snagged a 13″ Macbook with Core2Dual this week. Of course you started all of this, didn’t you? You enabler you
knittergeek
Moi? An enabler? Look whose talking, oh dispense of knitting needles!
Sounds like you got your hands on a sweet little machine! I’ll get there eventually, too. The Mini is nice, but I’m drooling over things with more power. =) Maybe at the June MacWorld conference we’ll have some upgrades announced for the Mac Book line. Something else besides just iPhone…