Thanks Tommyrot. I may take advantage of that. If you burn a copy I will pay for the DVD and mailing costs.
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Typo Boy - Oct 07, 2008 12:49:50 pm PDT #7785 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
tommyrot - Oct 07, 2008 1:05:27 pm PDT #7786 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ooh - Wired is raving about a brand new netbook: Review: Lenovo S10 — The Best Netbook We've Seen All Year
$469. Has a bigger screen than the Aspire One, and weighs 2.7lbs.
Lenov is the Chinese company that bought the Thinkpad line from IBM.
Typo Boy - Oct 07, 2008 2:01:02 pm PDT #7787 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
But the reviews say the screen is dim. And the battery has a under a three hour lifespan.
Typo Boy - Oct 07, 2008 3:54:35 pm PDT #7788 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ended up getting the same one Tommyrot did. There as open box Linux one for $315, and I can't find the XP one for less than $370. Given my modest needs in this area, the difference is not worth it, though I may narrow that difference by buying a six cell battery.
Jessica - Oct 08, 2008 10:20:11 am PDT #7789 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm doing a clean install (Erase & Install) of Leopard onto one of our office Macs. It's been saying "About 9 minutes" for at least 20 minutes now. Suggestions?
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 10:27:10 am PDT #7790 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'd wait some more. Those estimates are often off by a lot.
Is it a newer (i.e. fast) Mac, or an older one?
eta: Is there any other sign of activity? Is the HD doin' stuff? If so, then things are probably fine.
Jessica - Oct 08, 2008 10:28:41 am PDT #7791 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's a G5, about 3.5 years old.
It was chugging along fine until this point, and now it seems to be stuck.
Maybe it's just gotten to the "erase" portion and discovered that there's 150GB of crap on this machine and given up in despair?
Jessica - Oct 08, 2008 10:52:14 am PDT #7792 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Still hanging and I have to leave work in 5 minutes. Can I safely turn off this machine and start over tomorrow or will that completely fuck things up?
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 10:55:27 am PDT #7793 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Since you're doing a clean install, I'd think there'd be no risk to just shutting it off and starting over. (The clean install starts with the disk being reformatted, right?)
omnis_audis - Oct 08, 2008 1:29:29 pm PDT #7794 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
no questions or answers. Just popping on to show geek love in a room of folks who would appreciate it.
For work, we are using OS-X-10.5 ability to "Screen Share". It is true geek love. So much better than Timbuktu or VNC or a KVM extender. AND, both the Sound Designer AND me are doing it to the same computer at the same time (ok, so we share the mouse function, but at least it doesn't say "only one at a time"). Anyhow, very cool and geek love in abundance.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the ramifications of the screen share is? Which computer does it tax? What does it tax? CPU? Video? RAM? or does it spread the load around? OK, maybe I did have some questions after all.