when i saw this on the vista install we have i laffed and for the first time used the expression "that's so gay" in front of work colleagues.
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 20 January 2006 05:34 (eighteen years ago) link
However, does ayone know if VMWare are going to produce a product for OS X on intel. If I can run windows apps from within the OS (with good access to the graphics card) then I can run my work apps and persuade work to contribute to the cost of the machine.
Not just VMWare, you understand, but the demo versions of our video apps need a fair bit of graphics power, or rather, fast graphics memory to work well.
― Ed (dali), Friday, 20 January 2006 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm thinking about hating apple.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 20 January 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 20 January 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link
by mouse do you mean trackpad? a slightly damp - not wet, just slightly damp - cloth should do the trick. don't use any cleaning products.
i'm not even going to ask where the motherboard comes into this.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― I dislike apple a lot, Friday, 10 February 2006 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 10 February 2006 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 10 February 2006 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 10 February 2006 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 February 2006 07:43 (eighteen years ago) link
http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2005/09/27/restore-your-ipod-nano-to-new-condition-with-a-4-can-of-brasso/
I can vouch for this since last night... my nano looks a lot better now, but quite not perfect. I got bored, frankly, it takes AGES to work, but in *most* lights it now looks nearly new again, or rather used (if you stare hard) but not abused.
Worked on my phone display too.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 10 February 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 11 February 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
i dunno. i can kind of understand fanatical devotion to a product ... but fanatical hatred? get one life, muppets!
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 11 February 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm going to the pub now.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 16 February 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Friday, 17 February 2006 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I just plugged it into the PC for shits and giggles and it launches iTunes right away. GAH.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 February 2006 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link
yea and now we get to compare dual core to single core! yay!
― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Friday, 17 February 2006 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been through a lot of phases with personal computers. First I used Apples, because it was 1986 and using an IBM would have been really weird for an 11 year old. Then I used PCs, because it was 1996 and Macintoshes were, for all intents and purposes, made by Fisher Price. They were hilarious to anyone who wanted to DO anything with a personal computer... like play games, or make music, or expand the capacity of thier machines, or really anything. This went on for a long time.
pple OS 9 made it seem for a while like maybe it was the best OS, like maybe there were things you could do with an Apple that you could never do elsewhere. This thinking lasted for about four years, give or take. It was a silly fantasy. Apple never cornered any market here, it just claimed to. Plus, they charged an arm and a frickin' leg for their computers.
So now I have a PC, and I do a lot of the kind of work that makes people ask why I don't have an Apple. I draw and I make pictures and I Photoshop my ass off. I like my PC for that, not because it's necessarily better than an Apple, but because it's about a thousand dollars less for the same computer.
Apple zealots are wrong. Apple is not about being better, it's about being a goddamn control freak company that rushes inferior products to market (same as that other company that you hate so much) and selling you a brand before they sell you a usable product. This is not only true of the iPod (though that's an especially painful example), it's true of every product they've released for the past three years. They're a bunch of goddamn scheisters.
Same as anyone. Your computer is a gamble. You should know that going in.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 February 2006 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― mei (mei), Friday, 17 February 2006 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't hate Apple per se, just that crappy program.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 17 February 2006 10:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Now that I've been to bed:
I'm not an Apple zealot, and never really have been. Actually, Mac-versus-Windows is a debate that I refuse to participate in. I own an Apple because that's what I learned to make music on - I've been using Logic Audio in its various incarnations for well over a decade, and to me, there's simply nothing better out there for my needs. (I personally don't care for the Pro Tools interface, even though it's an industry standard.) But I also have a homemade Windows box that I use strictly as a virtual synth unit, and because it's purpose-built, it's rock-solid. (*Touches wood for good luck.*)
Moreover, until recently, I made my living setting up computers (both Mac and PC) for digital audio recording. My experience is that no platform is ideal - there are far too many variables for things to run smoothly all the time. All computers crash, and I've even seen identical setups exhibit wildly different behavior.
What Apple are guilty of is not scheisterism but inconsistency. They've grown exponentially in the last six years, and are rushing to catch up with their demand. The few times I've actually needed service, they've been more than helpful, and in all likelihood, I will get my Shuffle replaced without hassle.
Simply put, Apple-bashing is just as lame as Windows-bashing.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 February 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Regular (clean!) pencil erasers worked for a friend of mine.
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
the only reason i upgraded was to get my new mobile phone to work. woo, i thought at first, look at all these whizzy features.
little did i realise it'd be so fucking slow-ass and pointlessly buggy. for no apparent reason, the user drop-down just disappeared from the menu bar; i had to log out and back in again for it to reappear.
10.3.9 rocked. two weeks of 10.4.4 has been painful. i sincerely hope the 10.4.5 upgrade fixes some of this ... but then given that i read a thread this afternoon about how it stopped someone's iPod working, i'm kinda apprehensive.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Runs significantly better now.
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 18 February 2006 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
so i've bought some memory for the powerbook in the hope that might make the experience of using 10.4 marginally less painful.
and i discover that, in order to install it, i need a philips size 00 screwdriver.
because yes, of fucking COURSE i have one of those knocking around the place. can't move for fucking tiny jewellers' screwdrivers round this gaff.
JESUS CHRIST, apple, what the FUCK is wrong with using a marginally more sensible size of screw?
nobody i know has got one of these fucking things either, so i'm going to have to buy one. i think i'll send it to apple when i'm done with a note saying: "dear steve jobs. shove this RIGHT up your arse, you cunt."
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:41 (eighteen years ago) link
i don't wear glasses. mrs fiendish does, but a) she's away in england and b) she doesn't have such a thing anyway. nor, it seems, do any of my speccy chums.
and, oddly, i don't tend to keep the ephemera that falls out of xmas crackers, thinking: "gosh, one day this 50p piece of crap will come in very useful when i need to put £38 worth of memory into £1200 worth of computer."
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
(I have been known to keep the tiny screwdriver sets you get in christmas crackers, so I have one for my glasses case, one in my main clarinet case, one in the spare clarinet case, etc etc etc)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
not really. i know a couple of fiddlers and a lot of people who blow. but that's it.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Clockmakers? Scale modellers?
(you can tell I'm barrel-scraping here)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link