Day: 27 October 2003

iTunes For Windows

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So like allot of people I downloaded Apple’s iTunes for windows when it came out. Actually it was a few days after it came out since I was sick and didn’t read about its release for a while, but you get the point. It looked great, exactly like iTunes for Mac. The problem is that when I run it on my Thinkpad T40 it brings the system to a crawl. I cannot click or move the iTunes window when it is running. I am not sure what is wrong. I installed it twice to make sure nothing went wrong with the install. Still no dice. I am going to try it on another machine at home and then decide if it is worth the trouble. It just works on my mac!

I think that ends my bitch session about recent technology that I have dealt with…

iChat AV

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So I looked at the Apple iChat AV program yesterday. I have also played with it in the Apple store before. It is really cool. I think I would actually try to use it. The only problem is that it only works with other iChat AV users. I am not buying hardware for a chat system that only like 10 people use, and none of them are people I know. I do want to play with a net cam. It is a dead fad, but I think it was a good idea.

Lost Blog’s

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When I backed up data from my powerbook I forgot to backup Kung-Log the offline blog editor I use. I mentioned that before, but I am trying to figure out what I wrote about that I lost. I cannot remember. It was very early last week and I don’t remember what I was blabbing about.

I do remember 2 entries I was writing about. I was doing two long entries about the computers I have used over the years, and the many cell phones I have had. All that writing gone in a poof. Oh well. Maybe I saved them online as drafts? I don’t think I was that smart. When moving to new computers you always loose something. If that is what I lost, I am ok with it. It is funny, at work it is unacceptable to loose anything when moving a user to a new computer. But lets face it, no one is going to remember to grab everything. I am a good user and I didn’t remember the dam blog entries.

Forgetfulness

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So last night I got an email reminding me that one of the guys working for me is taking 3 days off this week. No big deal. He asked about it over a month ago. What was a big deal was I totally forgot about it.

Then this morning I cannot seem to find the holster for my cell phone. I swear I saw it yesterday. Am I loosing my mind? On second thought don’t answer that.

VMware Does Its Thing

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VMware does what it is supposed to do. I have been using it to download programs and other crap from the internet so I don’t get worms and stuff on my desktop computer. Well sure enough the VWware session I have that runs Windows 2000 Pro finally got gator. I just deleted it and copied the fresh VMware session of Windows 2000 Pro that I saved and was up and running in 20 minutes. The only down side was that I had to run the windows update to make sure the OS was fully patched. VMware is so cool.

Got My Sleeping Habbits Back

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I finally am able to sleep a bit better this weekend. I have been unable to sleep normally since I was sick. I finally was able to sleep to a normal hour this weekend. I also slept through the night. Good news for me. Bad news for all those projects around the house that I was going to do if I continued to be unable to sleep.

Treo 600 Rumors

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The rumor is that it will come out tomorrow 10-27. You know what they say about rumors? Well do you? I think it is a toss up between no one has a clue and rumors tend to be accurate. We will see tomorrow morning.

On a good note is that T-Mobile has announced cell phone number portability agreements in preparation for Nov 24th’ FCC deadline. That is good news for me since that is who I use as my primary mobile carrier. I have an AT&T cell number that I love, but cannot stand there service so I will change the number to T-Mobile at the first opportunity.

This entry was written while listening to Life, In A Nutshell by Barenaked Ladies

Mac OS 10.3

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So I went out and bought the new Mac OS that came out Friday. This was actually the first time I purchased an OS without a computer since I bought the upgrade version of Windows 95. I wasn’t sure if the upgrade was worth the money? But I figured I would give it a try.

Being the good engineer that I am, I did a clean install of the OS. I totally formatted the drive and started from scratch. That meant I spent most of the afternoon backing stuff up onto my desktop. I got most of the stuff. I am usually good with backing things up. I just realized what I forgot to save as I was typing this blog. I had a bunch (like 3-4) blog entries that I wrote early this week and never posted them. They are lost forever. I think I got everything else. I burned my app’s to a DVD. I copied my MP3’s to my desktop. I lost the playlist’s in the process but I have all the music. I also copied my personal files to the desktop but in the end I just restored them from a DVD I make last week. I didn’t do anything since then anyway.

I just got through installing most applications I use. I am going to wait on putting the rest on. I have crap that I think I don’t ever use. I also went without putting a classic (OS 9) system folder on it. So far the 12″ Powerbook I have with an 867 MHz G4 and 640 megs of ram is running 10.3 just fine. I haven’t used many programs at once so the jury is still out on it.

More review’s as I use it.

This entry was written while listening to Like A Prayer from the album “The Immaculate Collection” by Madonna