2005-03-29 10:38:00
Currently listening to One-of-my-colleagues giving "A Tivoli lecture".
Wahay! Remember how I bitched a long time ago about not knowing how to make bulleted lists in Ragtime? Well, I found it out :) You need to add them manually to the text, using the Character Selection app of Mac OS X. Finally, the mystery's been solved.
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2005-03-26 15:24:00
Had a small success with my Mac this weekend. Or rather "a flash of insight". I bought my scanner years and years ago, think back to the time of Win98 and MacOS 8. Back then it was a pretty nice scanner and it wasn't that expensive either. I used it to scan all my drawings, some photographs and all my iTunes album covers.
However, up till a couple of weeks ago I'd always hooked it up to Marli's PC since I could only get it to work with Windows. Mac OS X apparently thought the scanner to be ancient and/or seriously crippled, so it didn't have any drivers for it. Vuescan worked perfectly with it, but cost a bundle. One bundle too many for my budget. And then we sold Marli's Win98 box and I was left without a PC for scanning.
Then this weekend I gave it another try. Couldn't get it to workin MacOS X. Couldn't get it to work in WinXP. And finally it hit me ^_^ Classic... yah.. Really makes you wonder why I hadn't thought of _that_ earlier! I still had the original CD-ROM that came with the scanner, so I gave it a try... And lo and behold! Now my Canon n650u comes to life when connected to my Powermac! In all of its 1999 interface glory ^_^;;
But hey! It works and I don't have to buy a new scanner now. I used it immediately to update the logo for the frontpage. So there it its... *points upwards*
Completely unrelated: a week or two ago the belt clip on my iPod holster came off :( Since then I've been carrying my iPod around in my pockets, which literally makes me cringe. I decided to give the Belkin leather-flips-open-with-handy-suction-cup-holster a try. I can tell you: I don't like it :[ It's fat. Way too fat to keep on our belt. It's also not very handy when you take your iPod out of the holster every night to put it in your inMotion speaker-set (you need to fidget with the suction cup every time). So I'll probably get one of those fugly iSkin thingies now. Yes, they're horibly ugly, but they also are a lot more useful.
Speaking of iPod... It seems the Shuffle's catching on in the Netherlands. I've seen two people wearing one so far and they didn't seem like the typical Mac lovers either. So it's spreading :)
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2005-03-23 07:57:00
Currently trying to wake up -_-;
So yesterday I _did_ visit the "Making music on a Mac" seminar in Hilversum :) The write-up's available in the Apple Switch section, under the "Making music" general impression. Which reminds me that I really do need to rebuild that section of my site... *mutter*
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2005-03-21 18:21:00
Currently listening to "NŠin kulutan aikaa" by Eppu Normaali.
I'll be overjoyed on the day that I learn to pay atention when I'm reading something! Instead of going to Studio 22 on the 21st of March, I should be visiting Studio 21 on the 22nd :[ It's that I'm sure that I'm not, but else I'd be thinking I'm a bit lysdexic.
What I was supposed to be going to was the "Music on Mac" seminar by Apple which will be held in the Hilversum Media Park tomorrow [mojo-jojo]and thus not today and because it is not held today it will be there tomorrow. Going there today will be useless! [/mojo-jojo]. Apple will be there to do a two hour showcase of their Pro apps and afterwards there's supposed to be some sort of a fair or exhibit with a number of companies from the industry. Anywho, I'll be sure to type up a little summary. Tomorrow. Not today. :[
kilala.nl tags: apple, other tech, snafu,
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2005-03-14 07:27:00
I've always fancied Andy Ihnatko's writings, but this month he really takes the cake! This guy's hilarious! How does he come up with this stuff? On the Shuffle he writes:
There's no screen, just an LED. It blinks green to acknowledge that we've pressed one of the navigation buttons, orange to tell us that we've locked the keypad against accidental presses, and when it blinks red, it means that it's time for us to turn and face towards Cupertino California, bite down on the end of the shuffle to crack open the cyanide compartment and then await the magical spaceship that will take us to a new and better place.
kilala.nl tags: apple, geeky, ipod,
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2005-03-14 06:51:00
Currently listening to "Ode to my family" by the Cranberries.
Wooh boy, what a weekend! I never knew that changing one simple IP address on a server could have such pronounced effects.
Due to our IP ranges at work being too limited the Networks department has been working hard to get new switches installed. They're moving all of our servers from VLANs with a netmask of 255.255.255.192 to ones with a netmask of 255.255.255.0. As you can imagine this broadens the range of one VLAN significantly. That all sounds good, right? Well, naturally we need to be present to change the IP settings for all of our servers. Also, not too much work. Were it not for the fact that two of the servers being moved are replica servers for BoKS and NIS+.
Now normally these transitions aren't that difficult to perform, were it not for the fact that NIS+ had decided to act like an utter bitch for the weekend! After moving the server to its new switch we needed to rebuild it as a replica in order to propagate the new IP to all of its clients through the master. Usually this takes about half an hour, including the table copies. This time around though she was determined to cooperate as little as possible! Copying one table took about an hour from entering the command to finishing the copy!
All in all it cost me the better part of seven hours to get everything in place! Grrargh. But, in my defense, that includes reconfiguring all BoKS client systems and waiting until Networks had laid out the required patches :[
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2005-03-07 07:48:00
Just now I read a curious little piece in the news paper. It really was only two lines of text, but I was stunned. According to the article jeans (as in the pants) were still very popular in spite of the failing textile industry. Statistics show that jeans above 200 euros in price were especially popular.
What... the... FUCK?!
Jeans over two hundred euros?! I felt like I was being ripped off when i paid a hundred euros for some spiffy sweater last year! For fuck's sake! Two hundred euros will last me and Marlijne three weeks for groceries and then we'll still have some left for a nice evening of takeout! Who in their right mind will pay such a fucking exorbitant amount of money for a pair of jeans?! I feel awkward paying more than 45 euros for a pair of pants! And even those are brand names like Lee and Tripper, so you know that they'll still last you quite a while...
Gah!
kilala.nl tags: money, holy shit,
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2005-03-07 07:17:00
Currently listening to "Ride on shooting star" from the FLCL soundtrack.
Life actually feels pretty good right now, although it might not be. The last couple of days have been filled with tension and it wasn't the right kind. There was even more crap regarding the legal case against us, which of course is never much fun. There was some shitty business going around in the family and there was etra stress from Mar's school. As I said: life kind of feels good, but that probably only means that I'm coping better than Marli is :( She's pretty shook up by things, which is only natural. I'll try and give her all the support she needs!
Regarding her school work: it may sound odd, but I really enjoy helping her out! She's learning all kinds of stuff that I never had in school but which does touch on my profession. Things like project management and database (and interface) design. So it's fun to stick on the side lines and get a good view of what they're up to.
kilala.nl tags: life, money, problem, school,
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