I was able to leave work a bit early yesterday (due to starting early and skipping lunch) and get out to the job site a little before 4pm. 4 hours later, the outside of my block wall is waterproofed! Dad, Lou and I all worked on it together. It went a lot faster than doing the footings (thankfully!), but it was still hard work. And it's not done yet, because I still have to go out and waterproof the interior of the walls. Bleh, a job for the weekend.
After waterproofing, Lou and I went to IHOP and met up with our friend Jess. We had a nice dinner and caught up -- it was fun. :-)
Then I came home and played more Battle for Middle Earth. Damn that game is addicting.
Lis got her two hard finals out of the way the other day and has one to deal with today. Then she gets her four wisdom teeth pulled on Friday. What a shitty week! But she's taking it like a champ. :-)
I got the 1 GB stick of RAM for my Mac Mini yesterday. What a worthless pile of shit design for a case. It's pretty, but non-functional. Needless to say, after an hour and some cursing, I got the case popped off (without breaking it, I might add) and the RAM installed. Now the machine can finally run 10.3 at a reasonable speed. How sad is that the OS can't be run at an acceptable speed with 256 MB of RAM? I mean, I can get XP to run faster on 128 MB than 10.3 can run on twice the memory -- that's pretty sad. In any event, I'm looking forward to having use of my Mac simply because it means I can get more work done (since we rely on CW for coding, and the bug base only works on a Mac for whatver reason).
I'm heading into Best Buy today to pick up some more supplies. RAM for the Linux box and a new KVM (I didn't manage to get one yesterday). I hate that store, but I need the parts. I figure I'll get that done either over lunch or sometime tonight after work. Once I get those parts, I think the home office will be finished -- but cross your fingers. It's been a bitch to get everything set up and working properly. And just think, I get to do it all over again in three short months! :-P
My 1.25G PowerBook with 512M runs Tiger just fine. In fact, Tiger runs better than Panther did. On the other hand, one could argue that my old PC with 640K of memory ran DOS pretty well too. No need for more than that :)
Heh, I'm just telling you that my 500$ PC runs the latest Win32 OS and feels *much* more responsive than my 800$ Mac. And that's going with just the out of the box experience. Without getting into an OS flamewar, I still think that Microsoft either 1) Makes better use of the hardware than Apple does, or 2) Has more of an effort to ensure the OS runs on low-end hardware more than Apple does.
Of course, people willing to pay Apple's prices probably don't usually get the low-end hardware either. ;-) But their push to get PC people with a "cheap" Mac doesn't impress me at first blush. I have a machine that appears to have less power (in terms of CPU speed) to the untrained eye, and it runs slower but costs more than the low-end PC.
:: shrugs :: I'm not bitching too loud though, it was a free machine for me because work bought it for me.
Aren't the minimum specs for Windows XP like a 166 mhz Pentium (or maybe that is W2K)? Do you have the XP theme or Classic theme running? The XP theme with the bells and whistles run slow on my 1.5 Ghz Celeron M, but that is likely because of the built-in shared-memory video crap. But hey, it was cheap! =)
BTW, before I upgraded to a new 12" Powerbook, my primary home computer was a 400 Mhz G4 (AGP) and it ran everything except Garageband quite nicely.
:: shrugs :: not certain what the min req. are for XP to be honest. It's always "just worked" on the hardware I installed it on. You are right though, I tend to use the Classic theme much more often. Sadly, I use the bubbly nasty crappy theme on occasion just to make sure we're following the UI guidelines properly for that. :-P But I spend most of my day in non-UI-rich theme. Perhaps that's why I hate using my Mac so much -- there's no way to turn all the eye candy off. ;-)
Sure there is... just put Terminal in full screen! =)
LoL! You joke, but that's the one application I use the most often in OS X, and it's about the only thing that makes me feel comfy. ;-)
*looks up* Too much geek talk.
Yay for IHOP!!!!
You can turn off the eye candy for a few bucks.
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