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April 13, 2006
April 11, 2006
I’m trying Second Life after hearing about it on the latest TWITcast.
I’m sure I’ll regret it.
My Second Life name is Mick Tandino, if you’re interested.
I’m not sure why people just wouldn’t live in the real world instead of spending money to live in a virtual world. Strange.
April 6, 2006
Well, you’ve all heard that Apple now makes Macs with Intel chips. You’ve all heard that yesterday Apple unveiled a new technology to let their Macs boot between Windows XP and Mac OS X, right?
Well, you haven’t heard anything yet.
Via Engadget:
Now that Apple’s Boot Camp is in the wild, there’s very little to be said about booting into alternate operating systems on the Mac, right? Wrong! Because, not surprisingly, no sooner did Apple take the wraps off its little 30th birthday suprise, than Mac owners (or non-Mac owners who could cajole friends into lending them their Macs for a spell) began to put the Apple boot manager through its paces. And they’ve found out quite a few interesting things, including:
- Boot Camp can load Vista. Or at least the Vista installer. Marc Orchant at ZDNet is one of those using a borrowed MacBookPro, and he was able to load the Vista installer with no problem. Alas, his lender insisted on doing a full backup before allowing Orchant to go any further, so we have yet to see whether a full Vista install is possible — though we remain optimistic.
- Boot Camp can load Linux. Or at least a Linux installer. Torifile at applenova.com also got cold feet, and aborted an Ubuntu install after confirming that the setup loaded and was able to recognize a keyboard and other hardware.
- International editions of Windows will work with Boot Camp. This should come as no surprise, but with a beta product that’s designed to do something that isn’t supposed to work, you never know. But the PC Watch team in Japan wasted no time and installed the Japanese
version of XP Pro without a hitch. - Boot Camp can load Windows XP Media Center Edition. Now the Mac mini really is a media PC!
- Third parties are already filling in some of the gaps. With a basic Boot Camp setup, you can’t access your Mac OS X partition from your Windows XP partition. However, MediaFour’s MacDrive software solves that problem. Now you can boot into Windows and read and write to your Mac partition, which could allow you to have common settings files for some cross-platform apps. Whether or not it will also allow you to share your iTunes library between partitions remains to be seen.
- You can boot from external drives, even though Boot Camp’s installer won’t allow you to set it up. Actually, that may not be true. However, you can create external boot disks using narf and blanka’s boot manager (see, there’s still a use for it!). And we’re pretty confident that someone will find a way to do so within Boot Camp as well very quickly.
April 5, 2006
Good one. Made me laugh.
March 30, 2006
But it’s been a week and I am STILL blown away by this guy.
And it’s not just because he’s accompanied by one of my favorite pieces of music ever.
I hope you have a broadband connection. Download it and then play it for the best quality (click here to go to Google Video and get the video):
For more of Chris Bliss, go check out his website.
March 22, 2006
I guess I misled you again. Windows Vista isn’t being released in a month or two as we originally thought, or even November as I told you today.
It’s now pushed back to next January. 2007.
From CNet:
Chipmaker Intel declined to comment on the delay. Advanced Micro Devices had no public statement prepared when contacted by CNET News.com.
“Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one,” said Sam Bhavnani, a principal analyst with Current Analysis, in an e-mail interview. “There are significant negative ripples that will be felt throughout the personal computer industry.”
Wow. All this, after Microsoft stripped out so many features to make it to market. And how likely will it be that Vista will be delayed even more?
Don’t get me wrong, I want my next PC to have Vista. I just don’t want to grow old waiting for it.
March 21, 2006
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m redoing my template, and teaching myself a few things more about markup and CSS.
In true bad form, I’m doing it live so you can all see the ugly process. Hold tight, it’s going somewhere.
Hopefully not off a cliff.
🙂
March 20, 2006
I can’t believe that the guy survived this crash–Bill posted it on his weblog.
Man. Maybe my van is good for something after all, at least as far as crash protection goes.
March 16, 2006
Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: Matt and Trey Fight Back
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Sorry–the below tidbit just made me laugh. And it was on Andrew Sullivan’s blog, no less! In case you were unaware, Issac Hayes threatened to quit South Park because it “crossed the line” when it made fun of Scientology. Never mind the fact that it’s made fun of virtually every other religion on earth while Isaac happily collected his paycheck. If you haven’t already twigged to this, Isaac is a Scientologist.
Excerpted from Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish:
Yep, I can now confirm that Viacom and Comedy Central caved in to the Scientologists and Tom Cruise, but the South Park team are unrepentant. Here’s their official statement:
“So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!
– Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu.”
January 9, 2006
OK, so I admit it–I can’t wait for tomorrow’s keynote
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I wonder what Jobs has for us this time? I think that Foxtrot wonders too.