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Anyone been paying attention to Psystar and their selling of OS X on non-Apple hardware? They make noises like it's legit, and tout their better value, but System Update is broken. That's mighty sensible.
Finally got my Powerbook back from the shady repair place, and had to listen while they condescended to me and explained themselves very patiently. I had to laugh when the guy was trying to explain file permissions to me, because he couldn't actually remember "execute." Still, a point I didn't want to ask him because I'd been there way too long already--why should we be repairing permissions in OS X periodically? How are they something that drift?
Gud, BTW, the Powerbook sees Blaise as being in MSHOME and not Velvet too. I'm gonna fiddle more on the weekend.
ok, first reaction was : WANT. Second was: you REALLY need white walls then. And forget about the popcorn ceilings. If I had that cool, open floor plan- loftish place, that would totally make sense. And if it has a speaker built into it, and it can play the iPod, it'd be a neat party trick, to have roving music.
Any idea on price? Or is it "if you have to ask, you can't afford" deals?
GET THE FUCK OUT OF TOWN.
How random and seemingly pointless is that? I can telnet into my TiVo. I feel compelled to write something in Perl to take advantage of that.
That
is
pretty cool. I can use telnet to have my TiVo record something, or change the channel. Because... it just is.
It in Tivo now because high end home theatre intalls use Crestron and AMX controllers which are somewhat built around RS232 and now Telnet control of devices. I could control Tivo from an SFX machine.
I wonder if I could use my 25 year old Radio Shack Model 100 laptop to control my TiVo....
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Hmm. Obviously you can write web apps that can control your TiVo, and I guess I could write scripts that fire off in response to my cellphone ringing (Bluephone Elite has it connected to my Mac) and pause the TV. Or when I answer a Skype call, maybe. I wonder if that can be done...
Sean, were you looking for a laptop cooler stand? How about this? I mean, filled with cold water it should work.
