Posted in Becky the Techie, tagged Apple, Leopard, Vista on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
The world feels extra insane today. 64-bit insane, even. My mice that are supposed to be all knock-outs have suddenly acquired het or wt DNA. No one tried to run me over on my morning commute. I’m even finally feeling better almost a week after El Pato’s.
But the really insane thing is that I actually [...]
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Posted in nerdiness, technology, tagged Apple, Google, Leopard on November 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Apparently I am the top Google search result for compatibility problems with Leopard and CanoScan LiDE 500F scanners. I haven’t taken a look since I noticed the problem, but I hereby swear to those finding lil’ old me while googling for help, to take a more in depth look at what’s wrong. Probably over Thanksgiving, [...]
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Originally, I disapproved of Time Machine. What was the point, if it didn’t create a bootable backup? No point at all.
Then it saved my butt when I broke the Dock, and I’ve since revised my position.
Time Machine is excellent… for people that don’t back up at all. And I, for all my [...]
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I was very busy last night, complaining to my dad and brother about how ugly the new dock was and how even if you hacked the shiny away with the Terminal, it was still ugly. I had to re-shiny the dock to demonstrate it. And The Husband, who had not previously seen the dock [...]
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Posted in technology, tagged Apple, Leopard, OS X on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Now, despite what my friends and family think, I’m not a Mac superuser. I’m just a layman, although a very savvy one. I’m learning Cocoa, but I’ll never make my living as a programmer. I can fix things with the Terminal (and reasonable instructions) but I hate the command line with [...]
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