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Tommy, did you download the Adobe products?
Jon scared me away:
According to various comments at the site that was touting the free download, you need to use a MacOs that can run the powerpc emulator Rosetta. Snow Leopard has this, but it doesn't install by default. Rosetta is neither included nor supported in Mac OS X v10.7 "Lion" or later.
Well, scared away for now, anyway. I didn't feel like installing Rossetta if it was unsupported. (I'm on Mountain Lion.)
Maybe if I get bored at work tomorrow I'll try it.
ION, finally signed up for iTunes Match. I just noticed today they've increased the number of songs to 25,000--more than my 22,000, so I can Match all my tunes.
Oh, and speaking of iTunes Match--anyone here use it? If it works well it means I can buy a MacBook Pro Retina and not worry about getting a big SSD that can hold all my crap--I'll just keep all my crap on my 17" MacBook Pro with the big HD and rely on the cloud for my tunes on the hypothetical new 'puter.
The TiVo HD in the bedroom died last year and we decided to not replace it and the one in the living room acts up occasionally and we will have to really do some serious looking before we decide to replace it. The lifetime subscriptions are just not that tempting now and they have stopped offering hardware upgrade to lifetime owners so you end up getting locked into outdated gear.
Well, Weaknees thinks it's the hard drive, which would be a $99 repair plus the cost of the drive. (I could just order a new drive and swap it out myself, but then if the problem turns out to be the power supply or something else, I'd be out of luck.)
So it'll be an expensive fix but not as much as a new lifetime service sub. Damn those are pricey. The multi-unit discounted price now is $200 more than I paid for mine the first time around.
EyeTV is tempting but I don't know if I want a whole new thing! And price-wise, it's not that much cheaper than fixing the Tivo. Hmm.
Today, I'll be stopping at Radio Shack for an OTA antenna on my way home so DH can cover the Globes for work this weekend. Fortunately he's not liveblogging this time so no need to rewind and fact-check during commercial breaks. But if we don't have a working DVR by Oscar time it's going to be a problem.
(Last resort is calling Cablevision and getting a DVR cablebox. I suppose there's a slight chance the hardware has improved since our last experience with them and it's no longer a worthless piece of crap that doesn't even work?)
Apparently there's some big security hole in Javascript right now, and we're all supposed to disable Java in our browsers?
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Apparently there's some big security hole in Javascript right now, and we're all supposed to disable Java in our browsers?
Java and Javascript are two different languages. The issue is with Java, not Javascript.
Javascript is used on most interactive web pages. Java isn't used on many websites anymore.
Yeah, the name Javascript was just some marketing decision that has caused much confusion over the years.
More on the Java vulnerability:
Apple Blocks Java 7 Plug-in on OS X to Address Widespread Security Threat - Mac Rumors
This applies if you have manually installed Java 7 on OS X, as Java no longer ships with OS X.
If you use Collaborate (formerly Elluminate) for online conferencing you use Java. Alas. Blackboard (which owns Collaborate) might use Java for other stuff, too.
