I have an Apple Store question. Work is looking to buy a Mini, but I want to max out the RAM. Is that something I can buy at a local Apple Store? With the RAM already in it? They are not answering the phone, and I'd hate to drive all the way down there, just to order it online.

Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS

BobB-nw writes to tell us that Palm has decided to kill their PalmOS operating system and is instead betting their future on a still mostly unknown Palm webOS. Very little is known about the new Palm webOS, but it will supposedly support HTML5 and enable a local data store so that applications can be used both online and off. All of this is rolled into a Linux framework with a message bus based on JSON. Will be interesting to see where they take it.

1234567890 Day, A Celebration of Unix Time

Tomorrow, Friday, February 13th at exactly 23:31:30 UTC the Unix timestamp will hit 1234567890 seconds from midnight January 1st 1970, the moment when time began on the Unix operating system (aka the Unix Epoch). 1234567890 Day events are being planned around the world to celebrate this historic occasion. Here’s the countdown clock.

Count-up, actually.

In San Francisco, the celebration takes place at 2:31 PST (1 hour early for drinks) at 21st Amendment.

I have an Apple Store question. Work is looking to buy a Mini, but I want to max out the RAM. Is that something I can buy at a local Apple Store? With the RAM already in it? They are not answering the phone, and I'd hate to drive all the way down there, just to order it online.

I'd guess the ones in the Apple stores come with whatever amount of RAM is standard, and if you wanted more RAM, they'd probably tell you that you'd have to come back for it after they put it in.

IOW, ordering online is probably easiest, although getting extra RAM from Apple is way too expensive. It's much cheaper to get the CPU with whatever amount of RAM is standard, and then order the RAM from newegg or someplace and install it yourself.

Unless (1) your work needs it ASAP, or (b) the Mini is one of the models that the owner isn't supposed to open up to install RAM (i.e., it voids the warranty).

The last I looked, the Mini is a royal PITA to open up & install RAM.

The first generation Mini was simple, but IIRC they made it a lot more complex?

If that's the case, then I'd order the Mini online and cough up the dough to have the max. amount of RAM installed.

Ask the Apple people to max out the ram. If you open it you void the warranty.

Does anyone have any idea why every time I click on a link to a YouTube video, I get "This video is no longer available" message? It can't be that the video really is no longer available, because no one else is complaining that they can't see the thing.

I get that sometimes. usually if i reload, it works. i have no clue why it happens though.