Archive for November, 2007
November 19, 2007 at 7:59 pm · tag/s : computers
since i read that it is possible to install the mac o/s onto it, i thought that i wouldn’t mind getting my hands on an asus ee pc. they are really aimed at primary school children :p but at 400 dollars (at least in the usa) this 0.9 kg baby laptop would be just what the doctor osteopath ordered for when i am commuting between melbourne and wagga next year.
as it has no hard drive and a tiny screen however, i would have thought you’d get a bit more than three and a half hours out of the battery but this is all, the manufacturer says, that it will give you. since i am also not a big fan of fan noise, it looks like i’ll have to wait for the next iteration of the ee pc which will be built around a different, less power hungry chip also allowing the removal of the cooling fan, thus further extending battery life - according to apc mag. by that time the long rumoured ibook mini will probably be taking the world by a storm. or not. one thing is for certain though : steve will be pricing it a little higher than 400 bucks!
November 13, 2007 at 6:50 am · tag/s : amerika, australia, love
here is one for your fuck off pocket :
They had made fleeting eye contact and then she disappeared. It was visceral, inexplicable, something beyond words. Little wonder the romantics were quivering.
what a load of bollix. she didn’t even notice him. but it certainly seems that it was beyond words if the quality of the writing is anything to go by.
but what is it about the ‘quality press’ in late capitalism that a story like this gets picked up? or more specifically : what is it about the desperado hacks at the age? was it the fact that “the pair” appeared on good morning amerika? maybe this is what made it newsworthy?
November 5, 2007 at 10:59 am · tag/s : computers
dear Cocoatech
i have been using the demo of Path Finder for three days now and i don’t mind telling you i nearly cried when i began using it. what a stunningly beautiful intuitive and humble piece of software. everything you have ever wished the mac os finder would do and a whole bunch of other things you never thought of, and if whilst using it you happen to think : i wonder if Path Finder can do this - then i bet you it can. the years of my life i have wasted trudging through folder after folder to find, move and copy files, this is where my tears actually originate i think. oh and all the time i have wasted downloading and installing launchbar, quicksilver, defaultfolder and a bunch of other pieces of software that either slow down to a crawl or crash, or fail to live up to their wildly exaggerated promises, or are so mindbogglingly complex that you need a spare lifetime to learn how to use them.
so thank you, and thanks for providing a 21 day full (that, software developers please note, means : not crippled in any way) demo of Path Finder so i can really put it through its paces before committing my hard earned which usually leads to being disappointed by a buggy program not fit for beta made by halfwits.
who needs leopard? Path Finder earns a perfect score of : 100 99/100
stop press : i have had to take back one mark because it transpires that whilst i can open a file from an ftp server straight out of Path Finder i can’t save the file, nor upload files to the server. :| (i had almost trashed my copies of fetch and textwrangler.) apparently this is a mac os finder limitation, but surely you can add this functionality? that would make Path Finder perfect! thank you.
November 3, 2007 at 11:11 am · tag/s : australia, melbourne, music
oh great! sonic youth performing daydream nation in its entirety at the metro as part of the don’t look back series on the same night that pj harvey plays melbourne’s hamer hall on her australian tour. that’s sensible planning. don’t concert promoters talk to each other?
but polly jean will win. why? because she is not a boring old has-been just going through the motions for money. don’t look back indeed.
on the other hand low playing everything we lost in the fire in east brunswick will be very tempting…
