My Move To The Mac (Encapsulated In A Few Brief Tweets)

My Mac

I had a mini-discussion with Neil Stevens about the genesis of my Mac use, sparked by the news that GNOME is moving to JavaScript as its primary development language. I used to be a strict Linux-only user and tended to look down on Macs as mere playthings. I’ll let the Tweets tell the rest of [...]

Posted by Doug on February 4th, 2013 | No Comments Posted in Linux, Macintosh, Open Source Software

Pranking Yourself In A Few Simple Steps

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Please understand, this is purely a hypothetical situation and in no way accurately reflects the way I spent a good 15-30 minutes of my life today. Obtain Magic Trackpad for use with your MacBook. Use Magic Trackpad for a couple of weeks. Revert to previous optical mouse once general sluggishness and RSA-inducing motions promoted by [...]

Posted by Doug on May 8th, 2012 | 2 Comments Posted in Computers, Macintosh

Vide-O-Rama

Posting has been sparse — I’ve been busy, busy, busy at Ye Olde Shoppe Of Employment[e] and engaging in family-related matters and thus have had precious little time for blog-related silliness. I haven’t been so busy as to miss out on some of the excellent entertainment the Internet is known to (occasionally) yield, so please [...]

Posted by Doug on May 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment Posted in Humor, Macintosh, Politics, Videos

On Psystar, Apple And Conspiracy Theories

I was listening to this week’s TWiT on my commute in this morning when one of the TWiTs mentioned that they were taking a pass on the Psystar Open Computer (essentially a gray box hacked to run OS X Leopard) because the threat of an Apple lawsuit putting Psystar out of business is simply too [...]

Posted by Doug on May 14th, 2008 | 6 Comments Posted in Apple, Computers, Macintosh, Observations

I’m Picking Up Extremely High Levels Of “Enterprise” Humor In This Sector, Captain.

From the Mac OS X section of Sun/EMC/Legato’s HTML manual for their Networker Enterprise Backup System (EBS) version 7.3.2: Ref. cack vs. the intended “backup” for full humorous effect. Those who have used vainly attempted to use EMC’s EBS offering on the Mac (particularly Intel Macs) will find this highly amusing, I suspect.

Posted by Doug on April 8th, 2008 | Comments Off Posted in Humor, Macintosh, Work

I Was Saying “Boo, Urns!”

I don’t know if you were paying attention to technology news today, but Apple held a little keynote address at their yearly Macworld Expo at which Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air, a pretty freakin’ cool piece of ultra-lightweight mobile computing technology. He also announced a free firmware update for the iPhone which adds triangulation [...]

Posted by Doug on January 15th, 2008 | 5 Comments Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Observations, Technology
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