Interlude of peace and love 13 Feb 2008 Have you ever noticed that there are occasionally periods in which things just work, particularly with computers? I find that there is a confluence of coherence about every four years. I’m not sure if it’s just because the vendors – the Evil Apple Empire, or Micro$oft, whoever – recognises that if they don’t actually dangle a carrot of functionality from time to time we’ll all give up and start knitting or making model planes or killing software vendors or something, or if it’s an outcome of cycles of dysfunctionality that cancel each other out like standing waves, but I’m in one now. Sure, I had to download 341Mb of the latest update to OS X 10.5.2 to get it, but saints be praised, the Mac, the interwub, and even the connection to Micro$oft’s evil Exchange server (now there’s an oxymoronic name for that piece of… enterprise software) are all working. It helps, of course, that I’m hardly using M$ products, but that’s a given. I wonder how long it will last this time. PS: Even Time Machine is now working… Administrative Humor
Administrative Don’t use my uni email [do] 27 Jan 202319 Apr 2023 Although I am an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, now that I am no longer employed, the IT department begs to differ, so I have lost my uni email access for a while. Later: IT and the uni have permitted me to be listed as an honorary fellow… Read More
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Creationism and Intelligent Design New work on lateral transfer shows that Darwin was wrong 31 Mar 200918 Sep 2017 A new study into the transfer of genetic material laterally, or across taxonomic divisions, has shown that evolution does not proceed as Darwin thought, and that in fact the present theory of evolution is entirely false. Instead, it transpires that lateral genetic transfer makes new species much more like Empedocles‘… Read More
Well, now that you’ve mentioned it here … will Murphy’s law come into play? Will your electronic Utopia stick around once you have mentioned its existence to the outside world?
Well, now that you’ve mentioned it here … will Murphy’s law come into play? Will your electronic Utopia stick around once you have mentioned its existence to the outside world?
Well, now that you’ve mentioned it here … will Murphy’s law come into play? Will your electronic Utopia stick around once you have mentioned its existence to the outside world?
I remember spending an hour in an Apple store looking at OS 10.5. The only feature that I found which I really wanted was tabs in the terminal program, and even those couldn’t be switched with a hotkey. I’m thinking I might wait until OS 10.6…
I’m not feeling the love. Because my beloved laptop would only post occasionally, I sent it to the manufacturer for repair. Got it back from the manufacturer today. Now I don’t even get a battery charging indicator. Took a look under the keyboard and there are ground wires hanging loose. Metal tabs above the screws meant to retain them. All sorts of nonsense. The bright spot is that I sent it without my hard drive.
Completely OT – John or anyone else: when did ‘kind-based’ creationism (you know, God created various kinds, which all fit nicely into the ark, and when released onto a post-Flood world rapidly microevolved into the various, say, cat species, etc.) first show up?
Completely OT – John or anyone else: when did ‘kind-based’ creationism (you know, God created various kinds, which all fit nicely into the ark, and when released onto a post-Flood world rapidly microevolved into the various, say, cat species, etc.) first show up?
Mr Wilkins you give me courage to finally install my copy of 10.5 that has been sitting on my desk for two months because I’m scared of the melt down!