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Monthly Archives: April 2007
The Win Mouse 1:0 The Mac Mouse
For whatever reason you care to use / not use, I for one find using a mouse on a Windows machine to be smoother and just plain better.
Let me use an analogy: There are certain driving games that feel just right – it feels like there is traction, that the response is correct, that the time between action and response is perfect. Gran Turismo / Colin McRae / Mario Kart64 for example. And there are some which just don’t pull it off – Double Dash for example. You can’t quite quantify what is wrong but the experience feels wrong.
That’s how I feel with the Mac mouse control – and I’m using the Logitech MX Revo on both.
And this is not an anti-mac thing, it’s just an observation :)
Overheard in town
Bloke #1 “So what happened then?”
Bloke #2 “I wanted to run in and punch him 18 times”
Why 18?
Why not 19 just for good measure?
Or once but a really hard one?
Burnout
If you lift the top of the Mac Mini off, there is a copper coloured ribbon cable at the back. It looks like it connects the HD to the rest. Mine was burnt. There are several connecting strips and bar those at the end the others had burnt through. So off it goes for repair.
[insert comment that none of my PC's have ever failed, and certainly not like this]
Settle a dispute
This was seem an unpleasant topic for some, but domestic disputes are ugly things too :)
Gary Barlow of Take That – Fat or ‘Solid’ ?
Work slump
If losing a computer and it’s subsequent effect on productivity is an indication of how important it was (esp when there are other machine around) then the mini was important. There are passwords on there I haven’t got and that alone is a stumbling block. Problem is because I cleared all information from other machines because they could be used by others – not just family. So there was no trace of the important stuff. Which is good – until you need it. Which adds up to an early trip to the Apple shop tomorrow so the litttle white brick can have whatever surgery is needed.
Mini dead
Take mini to Apple reseller. They fit memory that takes it to 2gb. They test, all is good.
I bring it home, switch on. Start Bon Echo, Xchat, Thunderbird and all is good.
Go gym
Come back to find monitor has no input. Mini light is on but no-one is home. No keypress does anything.
Press the button on the back once.
That killed it.
No light.
It hadn’t moved at all from working to not. But it’s dead.
Maybe it’s so overwhelmed with getting some decent memory it’s gone to have a lie down.
But it still looks dead.
Not useful, not at all.
Judge Francis Gilbert is an incompetent.
Four Plymouth women who goaded toddlers into fighting and filmed it have been given 12-month suspended sentences. ….. [He said] they posed no risk to the public
Those nasty scheming vile excuses for humanity should have been locked up.
A man would have been.
That makes Judge Francis Gilbert sexist. Pathetic, clueless, deserving of every piece of criticism he gets, entirely at fault should ANY of those children have harm come to them, sexist and a complete moron.
Guestblock returns
Going back
What share of the market does the mac have? Well Firefox has the same level of performance compared to the PC. I’ve restarted, shut every other process, done everything I can yet it STILL takes twice as long to open 6 tabs as PC Firefox does to open 10.
When I can work faster than a computer can open tabs then the machine gets in the way.
So as of now, the PC is the main work machine. There can be no other way.