Mark FliderThoughts from a grad student in CS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Illini Pride- (Found July 2, 2008 ) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: http:www.dailyillini.comaug03aug22newsstoriesnews_story02.shtml http:www2.uiuc.edusafetyreportsafetycrime_statistics.htm I know, I know. sigh...http://www.free-conversant.com/mflider/28 Becoming Accustomed- (Found July 2, 2008 ) John Gruber makes some excellent points in his article about what people have become accustomed to: http:daringfireball.net200308good_times.html . I'm always shocked when I use another operating system, and someone explains to me how to do something that seems so trivial, or treats extreme inconvenience as an everyday thing. I'm sure I do the same thing, but I can't imagine it could be worse than the constant barrage of virii that have brought the network here on campus to a virtual halt....http://www.free-conversant.com/mflider/27 G5 System Architecture- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Let's take a practical look at the G5 System Architecture for a moment. Given that every part of the system is incredibly fast and a major upgrade from previous versions, there still remains the fact that this is a rev.1 product, and as such is subject to the usual suckage associated with bleeding-edge introductions. Storage This may be the biggest problem with the case design, bar-none. The G5 allows for two internal drives: Serial-ATA hard disks. A SCSI card's internal connections cannot evenhttp://www.free-conversant.com/mflider/26 Bloggin'- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I guess the real reason I haven't really used this much is because of the massive amount of weblogs out there... I mean, my commentary on an industry or company or software product would no doubt have been ranted about to a higher (and most likely more informed) degree by roughly 2 million other bloggers out there. So I guess my point is... why bother coughhttp://www.free-conversant.com/mflider/25 Oh yeah...- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I was reminded today of this blog's existence. What I really need to do is get a real server of my own and set up some real software (mail, web, cgi photo album, blogging, what have you) with a neat-o domain name. I suppose I could always just get like flider.com, but I think something like hailmark.com would be cooler. Of course, I'm way too tired (well, lazy) to do a worthwhile search for decent available domains, much less hosting companies, so this is just vaporthought. Of course, if anyonehttp://www.free-conversant.com/mflider/24 iChat- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 10.3 is going to come out, and iChat will have support for AIM profiles, and everyone will be like, "Wow! I can post a profile now!" until they realize they were doing that in OS 8 with the AIM client. Kind of like how amazing Labels seems after using OS X for so long.http://www.free-conversant.com/mflider/23 iPod case- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Another item for my techy wishlist: new XtremeMac iPod case . In the winter I could just put it in a little shirt pocket, but now that it's warming up I'm going to need a more durable case. I think I like the grey version. So, who wants to buy me one :Dhttp://www.free-conversant.com/mflider/22 Aging G4- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I recently replaced my aging dual-500 and bought a dual-1.25 G4. The machine works great, but it had this annoying problem when the computer was put to sleep. When I tried to wake it from sleep, the monitors would stay... C O C O A T E C H - B L O G Hey! What do you mean, "aging dual-500"http://www.free-conversant.com/mflider/21 |