Clowns In My Coffee

I’ve got a couple of weeks of OS X use under my belt now, so I feel remotely qualified to comment on the “Linux vs. OS X” issue, at least as it pertains to the desktop experience. A few disorganized thoughts:

Don’t underestimate the value of “it just works.” I love to tinker, but [...]

OK: I’m a nerd. I have a stuffed Tux or two, and a Beastie refrigerator magnet, which I made with my own hands.
Whenever I think that it’s going a little too far to have these logos be something I choose to interact with daily, I can comfort myself in the knowledge that, relative [...]

Now I can get serious.

Thankfully, the hard drive is larger than 2GB, since half the 60GB drive is filled, and I haven’t yet installed a guest OS or stashed a lot of photos etc. on it. The difference between the cost of 2 gigs of memory from a well-known online computer parts retailer and [...]

OK, ok, so I did it. I got myself a white Macbook, the 2GHz model, everything else being base. Yep, I did it right before the big meeting of the Church Of Steve, at which it is rumoured many things foretold on the internet forums shall come to pass, and that he who [...]

I’ve never had a smooth Windows installation experience. Before this whole thing started, the machine was stuck with a wireless card that had no WPA support and dropped connections for no reason at all. The flaky driver was just this side of completely unacceptable, but I broke out the trowel and mortar when [...]