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Time For New Spectacles!
Great diary... but real shame you only update it once in a blue moon these days.
EYE EYE
Sadly my eyes show no signs of ever becoming the right shape. Unless I have an eye transplant. Mmm, eyes.
I just hit my head with a spoon until my eyes are the right shape again.
In the words of my most repeated phrase today:
"RUBBISH!"
So rubbish that you're SO not added to my favourites.
So there
Safari For Windows
Mmm, that does seem most likely. It does seem a bit far-fetched that they'd reinvent something like XUL and limit their potential audience for web apps, but then it's been done before.
I suspect the real answer is the iPhone - it'd be braindead if the interface weren't at least partly based on webkit/safari.
Having a browser that runs on windows that people can test their web apps against would no doubt help with the iPhone compatibility...
It's apple. Why would they want a business sense when "looking cool" is No. 1 on the priority list?
You know you want one...
Join usssss!
Upgrading to... XP?
Mmm, maybe! Still not convinced, but will look into it more when the time comes to replace the laptop - it's still a bit too young at the moment.
Cooking With Radiac
I can't wait for the cookery book to be published Hmmmmm grilled muffins yum
Upgrading to... XP?
You're right, Office for Mac doesn't support .docx but what I was trying to get at is dump your current laptop, get a MacBook Pro and use that as your Windows laptop for when you need Windows, it'll run Windows natively with no problems at all.
The spec is fantastic for the cash, your clients will think you're a flash bastard (you are aren't you?) and there's a program called Parallels Desktop which lets you run your Windows apps inside OS X without any emulation.
Hi indie, been meaning to e-mail you for... years!
Problem is that I've got all my stuff for Windows, and I have a Windows desktop and laptop. I would have to buy a new mac version of Office, and it wouldn't be Office 2007, so I'm guessing it wouldn't support the new file formats.
Then there's the Adobe stuff - I have a single license for my desktop and my laptop. If I moved my desktop to a Mac, I could transfer the Adobe license from PC to mac, but apparently you can't run it on both at the same time; I would either have to buy a second copy of the software for my laptop, or I'd have to buy a mac laptop too.
Windows isn't brilliant, but it's just too expensive to move, and I can't see any benefits worth that much to me. Once it's all set up, it's pretty stable - XP has had no crashes since install day, and my w2k machine didn't have any real problems in years. The nix crossover would be nice, but I have Debian servers on my network anyway, and I run a VM with Debian on my laptop for Apache when off-site.
But I think your last bit sums it up - I'm pretty sure I'm just trying to come up with excuses to stick with Windows for the gaming ;)
OH MY GOD, it's Mr Stubbs, Another Boro lad!
I was like you once radiac, now I'm a mac fan boy ;)
My shiny MacBook Pro has a 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 160GB drive, Radeon X1600, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, 802.11n WiFi, 1680 x 1050 screen, Dual Layer DVD Writer and lots of nice stuff like a backlit keyboard, a built in webcam, external Dual Link DVI port, Firewire 400/800, decent speakers and optical in/out.
I bet you can't find a laptop that has all that for the £1600!
Oh and you get a nice suite of media apps with it, Movie Editing, DVD and Music creation. You can get MS Office for it, Adobe do Studio for it, OS X is based on FreeBSD so I can support all the nix stuff we have at work easily, I can run Apache on a real nix machine locally for all my testing and the best thing... thanks to that lovely intel chip inside I've got Vista installed on another partition for when there just isn't a mac alternative, C&C3 ;)
So I should not just replace one proprietary operating system with another, but I should pick a minority proprietary operating system that is locked in to overpriced hardware and only provides half of the software that I need, just so that I can have the added cost of re-licensing the few programs it does support? :p
I will get a mac, but not as a replacement for my WXP machine - I've already moved to Windows from a minority OS because I needed what other people had. Although there's a great deal of software on the Mac that I would like to use, it can't replace my main desktop, it's just too incompatible. And anyway, if I didn't need XP on my main machine, I'd probably go with Ubuntu - at least that way I'm free to buy what hardware I want. But I'd still keep Windows around for the games ;)
Get yerself a Mac
I Hate My Neighbours
I need help. My neighbour is a young girls (30) with 2 kids. She has a different man in her flat most nights. She is on benefits as well. Her kids play football in our small square thus, damaging my garden, climibing my garden wall etc., I can't say anything as she threatens me with all sorts and swears at me. How can I get rid of her
Monitor Revisited and other stories
The Samsung may be better than early Dell revisions, but not the new ones; they're pretty much identical. Only the Dell is £300 cheaper - over here at least.
Get the samsung. It be better :p