Tuesday, April 9, 2002

MSlife Aardvark's seriously twisted view of Life On the Net in 2004. Right now, I'm still thinking, more like 2012. 11:56:20 PM

It's time to friggin' panic! I think it's time for Apple to get their act together or I'm going to help lead the next darned lawsuit. I've had six kernel panic crashes since Wednesday, two of them today. All of them USB (of course). I've become a religious runner of Disk First Aid, Disk Tools and if something is wrong in any, DiskWarrior. This sucks. Either fix the damned problem or at least admit you have a problem and no idea how to fix it. I don't want to become a kernel expert and I sure don't have time for it. I just need to be a user, and let someone else fix this one for me. MacOS 9 was at least 5 times more stable running more or less the same applications on the same box. Every few weeks I managed to wedge myself by having a couple different systems mounted via ApleTalk over IP, several working SSH connections and a half dozen browser windows doing who knows what. A simple "es" would leave MacsBug confused and I would have to restart (and grumble). I was out of town for a week and left the MiniView on the other system. No problems whatsoever. Came back and two days later, wham. Dual cpu, USB KVM, non standard USB components (Micro Connectors keyboard and Logitech mouse). Look it up, lots of kablooie. If this were the only Mac I owned, I would be so down on MacOS X, it's depressing. Unfortunately, this is just where I try to do a lot of my work, damn it! 1:11:30 AM

Mini-series, maxi-miss Darn it all, I hate television mini-series! I'd planned time to watch TV on Sunday night to catch the A&E movie Shackleton. During commercial breaks, I learned a good deal about him. Here is a pretty good biography of Ernest H. Shackleton, includes a lot of personal details lacking in other discussions. This page also has a pretty good description of the events. I had planned to see it all, but they did the TV thing; continued tomorrow. Of course, this being A&E, they showed it three or four times in a row. And as usual, I missed it (tv attention span == gnat). Oh well, I know who he is now and I'll have to find a book to read. I don't know enough about our late 19th and early 20th century explorers. This is cable, try something different. Instead of showing it like a network would, show the whole darned thing, once per night. Must be an advertisement revenue thing. Aargg! Speaking of mini-series, I heard a commercial for the mega-series "Band of Brothers" from HBO tonight, I guess they've started showing it again. I can't even remember how many of these I missed (I did see the end of series special, that was terrific). Everyone once in a while HBO does marathons (which they never advertise), I've lucked into seeing stuff I missed before; I hope they do it with "Band of Brothers", or it will take five years to see it all like the "From the Earth to the Moon" series. I truly wish all of television was trash, because so much of it is. There is a small bit which makes ignoring the medium too hard. Rats. One last crack while I am it. How come I can't find a link for "From the Earth to the Moon" on HBO's site? Does this mean the rest of us are free to do whatever we want with it? 12:01:32 AM

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