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Posted on 09/02/2004 2:18:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
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Getting up early when it's dark is awfully hard.
Seems like it's much easier to do in the summer when the sun's already up that early.
"Where is the donuts?"
Yeah, that's my main problem. The alarm will go off...and I lie there and say to myself "Self, do you REALLY want to get up out of this nice warm bed to walk in the cold or on the boring ol' treadmill? Wouldn't it be sooo much nicer and easier to just sleep for another half an hour?"
And lately, I've been bad about giving in, though usually I fit in at least a quick walk in the evening.
But I feel so much better when I DON'T give in.
Los anillos de espuma no están aquí.
El hilo de rosca es muerto.
Ah morning. Here to getting more done today than I did yesterday. ~sip~
I'll drink to that one...
Ok, guys - Trvial Prayer Request - please pray that my assignment is in some shape suitable to turn in before class today!
You got it!
I've never had any trouble mounting two USB devices... and I don't do Macs. Since I'm not into graphics, I need a real computer...
Of course, my opinion that Windows actually has some upsides is rather unpopular around the department. However since I'm the Windows tech they humor me.
Oh, and as for the graphics thing...my freeper brother just started his own graphic design business. He won't use Macs neither.
But...I know they have hardcore supporters. So they must have some benefits. But I haven't seen anything to make me think they can do anything better than PCs, except that no one has bothered to try to infect 'em with anything recently. < /rant >
I don't care! We don't support 'em. So you can have a Mac but you can't ask us for help, heh heh.
*sigh*
We have several Mac labs on campus. And the education and graphics design folks almost all have Macs.
Considering that Macs "never break", you should see what our helpdesk ticket log looks like...
Hehehe...
Oh, we got a reprieve from SP2 yesterday. Turns out it makes accessing a certain web program impossible, so we're waiting until the college central technical people have a solution. Which is good.
We've been installing it for some time now...no problems so far. But maybe we got lucky, I dunno.
Hm...tomorrow is the faculty / staff yard sale here. I wonder if someone might be selling an old bookcase...I should check!
After all, more shelf space means an excuse to buy more books. Like I need any excuse...but...
Let me guess, many issues because they are really old macs and no one knows how to use them. These days mac are basically just Unix on good hardware with an apple front end. That 'macs are better for graphics' things is a myth nowadays. It is mainly that graphical&design oriented people prefer a nice looking front end on their OS. At home my two macs do all my real work because they network more reliably than my PC and are much easier to change configuration. I have the PC to play games and very rarely to do some embedded programing. I even prefer the Mac version of Microsoft Office. I think they spent extra time debugging it.
It appears my work PC as decided it will not mount one of my USB pen drives. I don't know why because my XP machine at home mounted it just fine last night. It is probably something to do with an older model USB controller or the settings that the company configures in XP not wanting to read the format I am using on it.
Nope, brand new Macs that took much of our budget for this year...a sore point. And they don't network nearly as well as the PCs - another sore point.
But OS X is a zillion times better in that regard. They've almost got it right.
Is it lunchtime yet?
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