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And much fun was had by all
Jul. 9th, 2005 05:05 pmWent to Edinburgh to the Beggar with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marymortis and xanta. Great fun - time flew by, nice pub, nice people. Even the jukebox wasn't awful.
Today, Siani R mostly been hangovered... We didn't get back in until gone 4am, thanks in part to 40 minutes trying to find snack food in Asda.
PocketMac serial showed up. Verdict?
AAAARGH!
My G5 has never crashed like this before. It's terrible. I read a few reports suggesting that despite this being the Tiger update, it doesn't like Tiger, so went to the eMac (which is still running Panther) where things improved (the file manager sort of worked) - I just came back upstairs and noticed that the eMac has a Kernel Panic. FFS. That sort of behaviour is simply inexcusable in a package that they ask people to pay $41 before they can even see if it works and is at version 3.51 = hardly Beta.
I'll be composing a support email looking for solutions, but it doesn't look good. I suspect that without Apple getting iSync up to speed, Windows Mobile and Macs are going to have to remain two things that just don't get on.
Every time I see the Team America: World Police box, I think "Team America: Thought Police". I wonder if they intended that.
Looking forward to bringingmarymortis down to see Hawick and some flats here; she's done a brilliant job of decoration (I don't know what the flat looked like before, mind, but it looks great now). Having been out to the local, and met the people, I can totally see why moving is such a rock and hard place situation though.
Oh - I managed to add Xanta to my friends list in the pub. One thing the iPaq does much better than the Clie is talk to my mobile phone - a matter of clicks and it's set up to use GPRS properly. Fantastic, and not messy thanks to Bluetooth. Makes the Mac OS X issues even more infurating in a lot of ways - Windows Mobile/Windows CE (albeit, in Handheld PC rather than Pocket PC form previously) is actually something I've always liked as a 'user' rather than a developer or geek, the Jornada 620/790(IIRC) and 820 I had previously were impressive and in many ways quite 'ahead of their time' - it's like 8 years now since I first started covering these devices and whilst things have moved on, the capabilities I predicted and indeed described for them in the 1990s are slowly but surely coming together. It's very gratifying having held an HP620 when it came out, and crudely lashed up a connection with an Option One card to send a picture from a digital camera at 9,600K - and said "This is the future" - to be reviewing a GPRS, Bluetooth and WiFi system which is running a $500 program that refines that and makes it happen almost precisely as I'd envisioned.
marymortis and xanta. Great fun - time flew by, nice pub, nice people. Even the jukebox wasn't awful.Today, Siani R mostly been hangovered... We didn't get back in until gone 4am, thanks in part to 40 minutes trying to find snack food in Asda.
PocketMac serial showed up. Verdict?
AAAARGH!
My G5 has never crashed like this before. It's terrible. I read a few reports suggesting that despite this being the Tiger update, it doesn't like Tiger, so went to the eMac (which is still running Panther) where things improved (the file manager sort of worked) - I just came back upstairs and noticed that the eMac has a Kernel Panic. FFS. That sort of behaviour is simply inexcusable in a package that they ask people to pay $41 before they can even see if it works and is at version 3.51 = hardly Beta.
I'll be composing a support email looking for solutions, but it doesn't look good. I suspect that without Apple getting iSync up to speed, Windows Mobile and Macs are going to have to remain two things that just don't get on.
Every time I see the Team America: World Police box, I think "Team America: Thought Police". I wonder if they intended that.
Looking forward to bringing
marymortis down to see Hawick and some flats here; she's done a brilliant job of decoration (I don't know what the flat looked like before, mind, but it looks great now). Having been out to the local, and met the people, I can totally see why moving is such a rock and hard place situation though.Oh - I managed to add Xanta to my friends list in the pub. One thing the iPaq does much better than the Clie is talk to my mobile phone - a matter of clicks and it's set up to use GPRS properly. Fantastic, and not messy thanks to Bluetooth. Makes the Mac OS X issues even more infurating in a lot of ways - Windows Mobile/Windows CE (albeit, in Handheld PC rather than Pocket PC form previously) is actually something I've always liked as a 'user' rather than a developer or geek, the Jornada 620/790(IIRC) and 820 I had previously were impressive and in many ways quite 'ahead of their time' - it's like 8 years now since I first started covering these devices and whilst things have moved on, the capabilities I predicted and indeed described for them in the 1990s are slowly but surely coming together. It's very gratifying having held an HP620 when it came out, and crudely lashed up a connection with an Option One card to send a picture from a digital camera at 9,600K - and said "This is the future" - to be reviewing a GPRS, Bluetooth and WiFi system which is running a $500 program that refines that and makes it happen almost precisely as I'd envisioned.
