Category: Macintosh

I found this site after clicking on a little ad that had the Apple logo and then gunshots appearing in it, with the headline ‘Hate macs? Click here.’ So I clicked, to see what it was. And it’s a neat little explanation of why Macs are better, with arguments targeted specifically to comments found on message boards, etc. So it’s a good resource to show your PC-weenie friends, which you shouldn’t have.

<!– After a disappointing phone call with the staffing services at Apple, I now have to deal with my fucking (and apparently permanent) SysAdmin giving me shit because I don't know how to fix the Sevendust virus on my bosses PowerBook. Fuck him. 'Thanks for your help' was the response I got when I told him to reformat the drive after they reinstalled and still had the same problems. Fuck that shit. After not even wanting to be here any more, they pull this BS on me. Give me a break. I don't get paid to be helpful. My machine hums along fine without anyone elses help, and that's the best I can fucking do right now. Why didn't they hire someone with Mac experience? Hello? I really don't want to even be here anymore. Fuck these guys.

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On a semi-related note, does anyone know a way for us to do the SMB filesharing between Mac and NT on the server side instead of us all using DAVE clients on our machines?

hmmm… mghz, shmegahertz.

Check this out [ny times free login req’d] and this.

WiredNews has announced the reader-influenced ‘VaporWare 2000’ list of products that were supposed to be hot-shit this year, but turned out to be hot air instead. The number one? It’s what I believe to be a wrongly-accused MacOS X. Apple never said they were going to ship it this year, and they even got the Public Beta out in time. The reader comments Wired chose to publish were not only misinformed, but ridiculous. So whatever.

To spare you the retarded reader comments, here’s the list (4 of the 10 are games):

10. Tribes 2 (game)
9. Wireless Web Pads
8. Bluetooth (wireless technology… long live 802.11 (Airport)!)
7. Silicon Film’s Electronic Film system (a technology allowing the conversion of 35mm cameras to digital ones.. I never heard a thing about it)
6. Warcraft III (game)
5. Intel Itanium chips (64-bit processors)
4. New Linux Kernel
3. Black & White (game)
2. Duke Nukem Forever (game)
1. Mac OS X

I just viewed the site in Netscape 4.7 for Mac, and the survey table on the left is looking a little funky… and I can’t figure out why. So please, if you care about that kind of thing but want to continue using Netscape, use Netscape 6, cause it works fine in that or IE5. I hate doing that to you, but the code looks fine to me.

If you like house/techno/jungle/trance/whatever and want to mix your own MP3s without the expensive purchase of some tables, vinyl and a mixer, DON’T buy Mixman Technoligies Megamix software. It blows.

I bought it for my brother for christmas (who also received a couple tables), with the intention that he could use the $30 software to mix at home or practice without waking up the whole house. And, being the guy I am, I even offered to install it for him. The first problem I saw with it was that on the install, I noticed a lot of .swf files being installed, giving me the feeling that it’s Shockwave-based (never a good sign for commercial software). The second (and fatal) problem was a combination of these things:
1. The software WILL NOT run with virtual memory running.
2. The software REQUIRES 32MB RAM, without aforementioned virtual memory
3. The iMac my parents have has 64MB RAM, but with virtual memory off, the OS takes up around 33MB of its own, leaving 1MB less than the software needs.
4. The software refuses to work with even that 1MB less RAM.

Now, I know that I could have gone into the extensions manager and stripped the OS down to its bare naked system, leaving only the appearance stuff and sound and graphics stuff, but quite honestly, it would be too much for my brother/family to manage extension sets and whatnot. And they shouldn’t even have to, just to support a 30-dollar software package I bought at MediaPlay. Maybe I’ll sell it on eBay or something.

I know I bitched before about the lack of game availability for Mac, but this is even worse. The software exists, but it won’t run correctly, even though the system in question does in fact meet the minimum system requirements on the box. And it’s not making my dad any more confident in his Mac purchase. Which is never a good thing.

Back at home now, lovin’ my iMac… Whew. That whole ‘using a Compaq Presario for a week’ thing was getting to be a little much. But I’m back on my beloved OS, and back to IE5 crashing the system when Entourage is open… Ah, the Mac life.

And because I’ve just sort of jumped into the (legal) procurement of games for Mac, I’m getting to be real upset by the fact that in every store in the planet (including rural Arkansas) you can find brand new games for PC, but their Mac counterparts, while actally having been released as well, are conspicuously absent (Rune, in particular). Motherfuckers.

It seems as though 3DFX, makers of the Voodoo line of video cards, has more or less gone out of business. Get the scoop (er… poop) and post some feedback here.

Its a bummer that the average lifetime of a tech company and/or dot com nowadays is only as long as their first product’s life cycle (usually quite short). Very few companies get to try again… (Although let it be known that 3DFX has been around for a number of years, and have a number of cards under their belt. They were a leader in the industry when they started. -kev)

I think we beat FuckedCompany.com to this one. 🙂