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Friday, January 31, 2003Prop-o-ganda@ 04 pm | PermaLinkA great collection of posters: http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/ I'm thinking Desktop images or printouts.
Saturday, January 25, 2003Warlords Yesterday and Today@ 08 am | PermaLinkFrom Gustave Gilbert's Nuremberg Diary, interviewing Hermann Goering, Commander of the Luftwaffe (Nazi Germany's air forces), before Goering was sentenced to death at Nuremberg: We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction. "Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship." "There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars." "Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Friday, January 24, 2003DragThing Vs The Dock@ 12 pm | PermaLinkOkay, I know I ought to be able to get comfortable with the Dock. And now that it doesn't push around my Desktop icons in 10.2, I've kept it 'open' and not hidden. I've also decided that I can move certian icons to it, based on how I acutally use them. Requirement 1: I don't need to launch them with a keystroke. I use DragThing for organizing my launch keys and the Dock doesn't do that. Requirement 2: I don't need to drag things to them. DragThing will let me drag *any* file into *any* application. The essence of Drag-and-Drop interfaces is the ability to drag data to more than one tool. If the default tool was the only thing I ever needed, that would be great. But I want my HTML files to open in BBEdit, and in any one of 4 different browsers. Drag and Drop is an absolute must. Graphics files are often in the same boat. As are PDFs, EPS's, Zips, .SITs, etc. That the Dock doesn't allow me to work this way is really annoying. That's Why I have DragThing. Yay DragThing. So what's in my Dock after all that? The Finder, DragThing, Stickies, Keyboard Maestro, iChat, AddressBook, iCal, NewtSync, and ClassicStartup (you did know that it's got an icon, right?). Everything else is DragThing's domain.
Monday, January 20, 2003Mac OS X.2 Installed@ 12 am | PermaLinkI finally got Jag installed on both my iBook and my blue and white g3. both seem to be working smoothly and I've even got NewtSync running really well, so I can now stop using my Palm VII and get back to using my Newton for my Notes/Address Book/Scheduler. I might even figure out how to make my B&W G3 a WebDAV server so that I can sync and publish my schedule and such easier. It's quite liberating too have a whole UNIX server at my own disposal. My brief stint with YellowDog Linux hasn't come to a complete halt, but I'm not sure if I'll go back. Right now, it's a moot point. OS X seems to do everything I'll need it to and with a pretty GUI with consistent naming. The sheer plethora of 'configs' 'panels' 'preferences' 'settings' and other vaugly named tools for setting things up were just befuddeling. No I'm not using Safari yet. Give me a bit of time to work out all the options that I have between uControl, TinkerTool and Keyboard Maestro and I'll get back to you.
Saturday, January 11, 2003Linux for PowerPc@ 11 pm | PermaLinkI've installed and am using "Daytona" the v2.4 Kernel of Linux for the PowerPC platform. I'm using "YellowDog Linux", and I've installed it on my Blue & White G3. It took me about 4 hours to figure out everything in terms of getting to a usable desktop. The Hard Drive partitioning was pretty easy, since I still had some partitions open that I had anticipating using for OS X. But the Video piece had me stumped until I remembered something. Each time I tried to boot after installing from the CD, The screen would hang. The Drive would continue to thrash, but nothing more would apear of the boot sequence. Suddenly I remembered that I had a second video card in the box, unused and as soon as I pulled it out, all was much better. At least until I actually got into KDE and it was set up for a 1024x768 desktop, but the monitor was displaying only 800x600. Quite annoying. What would happen is that when the mouse cursor got close to the edge of the screen, the entire screen would shift over, like a viewport over a map. it took me a bit to find the 'task/toolbar/panel' that all the activation icons are on. I'm now using Gnome. Maybe I'll shift back to KDE later on.
Wednesday, January 8, 2003No 12 Inch PowerBook For Me@ 11 pm | PermaLinkLook at this as comparison between the iBook and the 12" PowerBook: * same screen size as iBook Sure, somehow they have the same screen size and yet were able to trim 1.8 inches off of the overall size, but that RAM limit is not a good thing. They could have easily put a full 512MB on on the MB leaving the *single* ram slot open for another 512. But the lack of 800 Mb/s FireWire is just bizarre. Unless... The 12"PB actually has simply a modified iBook base. At least that's my guess, but comparing the port placement of the two, it's easy to see the similarities. All of the ports are lined up on the left hand side of the machine. As oposed to the 17"PB which has them all on the right hand side. As opposed to the 15"PB with the ports all on the back. Which brings us to our strangest aspect of the new PBs: The Hinge. The hinges of the new 17 and 12s are similar to the iBooks' in that the screen actually rotates back behind the far edge of the laptop. It's interesting in that it gives you a deeper keyboard area and a stronger hinge, but it makes for a screen that cannot be folded back to flat or nearly flat. That flexibility has been very useful on Amy's TiPB on occasion, and I'd be surprosed to see it phased out. Previously, that same day...Bluetooth Uses@ 11 pm | PermaLinkSo far I've seen or heard of BlueTooth products that do the following: Transmit Audio signals for Output (Headphones) I want this to grow, I want to have more BlueTooth stuff, 'specially now that the new PowerBooks have it built-in.
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