Ok, so I'm checking out www.sbsummit.com on my PC running Windows Vista Home Premium. I open up Internet Explorer 7 and install Flash Player so I can watch the video stream of the webcasts. What I get is an awesome video of a black screen. It doesn't work. Ironically, the first webcast I was going to view was entitled "The Vista Advantage".
So, now, I jump over to my Mac machine running OS X 10.5 Leopard and open up Firefox 2.0.0.12. I go over to www.sbsummit.com and the webcast starts playing immediately.
Imagine that.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
yay for opensource
Well, since openoffice.org is opensource, the good people at planamesa inc. have created a Mac OSX native version of it called NeoOffice
Check it out.
Check it out.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
merger, affiliation, alliance, partnership
Is a merger still a merger by any other name?
Funny how psychology works in all areas of life, and I thought that piece of paper from UC Berkeley would be worth nothing, Ha!
So, I'm in partnership (the current definition that I like) with Moonknight Networks, based in Oakland, CA. I'm still gonna keep the website and e-mail address of computerhelp2go@gmail.com but I'm just going back to being an independant contractor as I started out. In other words, I'm no longer Computerhelp2go as a company identity, I'm just "Scott Garrett Daniel IT Consultant". Sounds good to me. So, the psychology of all this is that I'm balancing my identity as an Independant IT Contractor and my new identity as an Apprentice to a Seasoned IT-Consultant with 15 years of experience. I'll be making less money for the jobs he passes to me, but I will be gaining valuable experience with small to medium-size business networks. Servers, Routers, and Firewalls Oh my! Maybe now I can finally achieve the dream of establishing telepathic contact with a room full of servers.
The other thing to note right now is that I've been rejected from SJSU and SFSU for the master's in experimental psychology program that I applied to. Yeah, I forgot to tell you guys about that. Now I'm just waiting on NMSU, and if they don't want me then I'm gonna go with the IT Business. Because, you know, I like the independance and I like helping people with computers. And I like computers because even though you have to tell them exactly what to do like children, they don't talk back. :)
Funny how psychology works in all areas of life, and I thought that piece of paper from UC Berkeley would be worth nothing, Ha!
So, I'm in partnership (the current definition that I like) with Moonknight Networks, based in Oakland, CA. I'm still gonna keep the website and e-mail address of computerhelp2go@gmail.com but I'm just going back to being an independant contractor as I started out. In other words, I'm no longer Computerhelp2go as a company identity, I'm just "Scott Garrett Daniel IT Consultant". Sounds good to me. So, the psychology of all this is that I'm balancing my identity as an Independant IT Contractor and my new identity as an Apprentice to a Seasoned IT-Consultant with 15 years of experience. I'll be making less money for the jobs he passes to me, but I will be gaining valuable experience with small to medium-size business networks. Servers, Routers, and Firewalls Oh my! Maybe now I can finally achieve the dream of establishing telepathic contact with a room full of servers.
The other thing to note right now is that I've been rejected from SJSU and SFSU for the master's in experimental psychology program that I applied to. Yeah, I forgot to tell you guys about that. Now I'm just waiting on NMSU, and if they don't want me then I'm gonna go with the IT Business. Because, you know, I like the independance and I like helping people with computers. And I like computers because even though you have to tell them exactly what to do like children, they don't talk back. :)
Friday, February 8, 2008
usb stick access lockup under leopard
Just another bug report for everyone:
While trying to access a spreadsheet file on my 8gb memory stick, Finder and the Spreadsheet program kept locking up while I was trying to open the file. I looked up at the top right corner and it seems that spotlight was indexing the disk. The simplest solution was just to wait for it to index (which only took a few minutes) and then I could access the files. That is all.
While trying to access a spreadsheet file on my 8gb memory stick, Finder and the Spreadsheet program kept locking up while I was trying to open the file. I looked up at the top right corner and it seems that spotlight was indexing the disk. The simplest solution was just to wait for it to index (which only took a few minutes) and then I could access the files. That is all.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
macworld expo 2008
Gather round children, for a tale of social anxiety and rampant commercialism...
So, I went to Macworld Expo 2008 today and the best thing about it that I can say is that I survived. There must have been something like 5,000 people there. I did ok at first, talking to a few people at booths and picking up some demo cd's and whatnot. Then I realized how these people at the booths weren't techies like me, they were just salespeople. They said things like "robust" and "intuitive" as though I would actually be impressed.
Additionally, There must have been something like 40 booths all based around customization of you ipod/iphone/iwhatever. Either I didn't realize that Mac users were this crazy or most of these companies are running on profit margins smaller than a quark.
Now, I know that it was just the sheer amount of sensory stimulation that was paralyzing. The people there weren't really the problem, I just can't handle that much "stuff" at one time.
Why is it that every salesperson thinks that their product is going to solve all your problems and completely change your life for the better?
oh, about computer games
I deleted every single trace of computer games from all my computers (except for the little games like solitaire and chess). No more hours wasted playing Civilization 4 or Neverwinter Nights 2. I did this on 1/5/08 so I have 12 days "computer-game-free" if anyone's counting.
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