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Back upstairs on the dialup now. Seems to work fine. This is what I had problems with in the public beta. I could never get PPP to stay connected. Needless to say, they've come a long way from the pb to 10.1. Nice work. Cheapest new computer I've ever gotten.
Long day of downloading. For no good reason I'll say what I did.
Backed up a couple of gigs off my home machine (graphite iMac) onto one of the Mac towers in the office. Did some actual math and discovered we only get about 5.5 Mb/sec over the LAN. I'll have to look into that.
Wiped the single partition on the iMac. Made two new partitions.
Installed 9.0.4 (off CD) onto the smaller partition.
Downloaded 9.1 updater from Apple. Installed over 9.0.4.
Downloaded 9.2 updater from Apple. Tried to install - corrupt. Couldn't go back.
Installed 9.0.4 again off CD. Updated again to 9.1.
Downloaded 9.2 updater from Apple again. Installed sucessfully.
Downloaded 9.2.2 updater from Apple. Installed.
Installed 10.1 (off CD) onto the larger partition.
Downloaded developer tools (200+ Megs!) and installed.
Writing this from mozilla 0.9.6 running on OS 10.1. Feels good so far. I got a consistent 60 K/sec from Apple on the DSL. Still, that's not so fast for over half a gig of downloads. Started around noon and am just finishing up now.
I've meant to make this upgrade for some time, but I suspected it would turn into an all day adventure and so I had been putting it off. Glad I finally got it done. I traded emails a few weeks ago with mors.ante.servitium and his OS X enthusiasm sort of shamed me into finally doing it. Thanks. Everything is working well so far. I'll keep you informed on how it goes.
My guilty conscience will not let me rest until I expose the extremely unamerican way I behaved today: I failed to conduct all my affairs under the highest level of security. Also, I made no efforts to observe, not to mention report, any evil doings. And as for smoking people out of their holes, I'm sad to say I'm not even sure what that means. Sorry. I'll try harder tomorrow.
Rageboy on fire.
Mac in red plastic jug conversion photos. No, I don't know why.
Google groups now has a full 20 years of usenet history on line. That's over 700 million messages. Aaron Swartz pointed to some fun old ones, like Tim Berners-Lee's first post and this first "executive summary" of the world wide web project. More links on Aaron's page.
update: Here's a timeline from google with many of these early interesting threads. Wow.
MB has been working on a project lately that involves a childrens television personality I grew up watching on the magic screen. I met her last week here at the apartment. We were introduced, and shook hands, and I pretended there was nothing strange with meeting someone in real life who comes from my TV fueled childhood imagination. "Oh hi, nice to meet you." Last night we all ate at the bar at Fresh Foods and I was trying to see if Dennis, the bartender, recognized her. I mean, she looks exactly the same. But he didn't know what I was talking about. I guess you have to be of a certain age.
007
At ocean eleven
an' now rudeboys 'ave a wail...
Saw Ocean's 11 last night. The Desmond Dekker song is not in it, but I ended up with it stuck in my head anyway. It was my first time at the Zigfeld which is a really old and very large theatre on 54th street just off 6th avenue. The biggest in NYC. It's interesting to watch a movie with so many other people. I grew up on those tiny 20 little narrow cinemas in one strip mall places out in the suburbs. A really big screen does make a difference.
I enjoyed the movie while I was watching, but then afterwards we went to dinner and by the end of the meal I already wasn't too sure. Today it's on the way to having been bad. Strange how that works.
Walking out after the show Tom was asking me about the digital projection. I hadn't even noticed it was digital. So I guess the technology is good enough for my eyes. The only thing weird I saw was some kind of upper lip distortion on Julia Roberts, but maybe that wasn't a projection issue.
Google zeitgeist. If I wasn't already used to the feeling I'd be surprised I hadn't seen that page before. Probably as close to a snapshot of the world computer using group mind as you can get. Dig the top 5 historical personalities:
1. picasso
2. van gogh
3. marilyn monroe
4. bruce lee
5. einstein
I'm pretty sure that says something about us. Not sure what though.
Bruce Sterling. Long. Very worth it.