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ARM-wrestling

Quick geeky post which may help some people out there. I couldn’t find definitive answers to the questions below, and I’ll probably forget them if I don’t write them down somewhere, so here we go.

Time to upgrade

As you know if you’ve followed this blog for a while, I have a first-generation iMac G5 (which has had most of it’s parts replaced at least once), and a first-generation MacBook. The iMac is 4.5 years-old and my main net-surfing, emailing and music-making machine. A testament to the shameful, anti-American Apple corporate policy of… Poursuivre la lecture Time to upgrade

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WBMFM

I translate software programs, and the associated help files and manuals, for a living. Most of these programs (and manuals) are American and I translate them into French. And they are not obscure little programs. No. They are created by big international companies, like Microsomething, and HAL, etc. The best of them are not inspiring… Poursuivre la lecture WBMFM

Hardware v1.0

One of the things I’ve discovered working on the OZÉ project, is that creating hardware is a lot like creating software. It sounds counter-intuitive, but there really are many, many similarities. I’m not going to elaborate, except to point out one of the consequences of this fact. It is risky to buy the first version… Poursuivre la lecture Hardware v1.0

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The Woof Commences Now

So Microsoft is said to have a half-billion dollar budget to advertise its new Windows Vista operating system. And they came up with the following, inspiring slogan: « The Wow Starts Now », next to the new, rounded Windows « Start » button. Umm, OK. I couldn’t help remembering that when the first iMac came out, you know, the… Poursuivre la lecture The Woof Commences Now

Strike Two

Got the second MacBook today. It had none of the flaws of the previous one, nor any that I’d seen mentioned on forums and such. Good news, right? Well, yes, except the screen is defective. The angle of vision is all out of whack. At normal eye level, the top of the screen is OK… Poursuivre la lecture Strike Two

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