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arkady and dolly. Please help with missing names. Photo policy. I'm particularly pleased that the camera gives good results with the saturation set to low (cheers to secretlondon), though it resets it every switch-on. But then, it was fifty quid, as I tell myself each time it annoys me. The Dev shots show it doing surprisingly well in low light, particularly with a tripod (though I did crank the gamma way up).
I am hideously enamoured with Mac OS X for being a decent Unix that Just Works, as opposed to the dancing bears of KDE or GNOME. I want my next laptop to be a 12" Powerbook. (Actually I want it to be a 12" MacBookPro, but they don't exist yet.) The prices aren't dropping, though. Dammit.
Today is housework and tidy room day. I've found the soldering iron and just need the solder to attempt the laptop repair. Fingers crossed!
We plan to solve the Valentine's Problem by having a date with Arkady Monday evening and redcountess Tuesday evening. So there.
Note: I am still hardly reading LiveJournal — we can't get it at work any more and I'm far too busy the rest of the time. So be sure to let me know directly of anything important. Has any severely LJ-addicted geek come up with an offline reading solution? That's an idea to ponder.
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Date: 2006-02-12 01:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-12 05:58 pm (UTC)lj2news (http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2005/lj2news.html) will slurp on the RSS and spit the results into NNTP. As it were. Unfortunately the comments don't appear in RSS, so you don't get those; if someone cared to talk LJ into producing the comments in a more tractable form than a big pile of HTML then perhaps something could be done about that.
Feeding the NNTP-side responses back into LJ would be an interesting exercise in loop-prevention. I suppose you could arrange that all the replies were by mail rather than NNTP (either by insisting people hit reply or by a moderation-based hack, but the latter doesn't fit well with some configurations).
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Date: 2006-02-12 06:09 pm (UTC)Alternately, something to suck down the HTML of the posts and rewrite the comment reply URLs to do something in the viewer might be a better approach.
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Date: 2006-02-12 06:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-12 01:43 pm (UTC)I demand:
* mouse-based cut-and-paste, like X (all my sysadmin/programmer finger-macros are bound to unix-like stuff)
* but the cut-and-paste must use the real Mac clipboard, so I can double-click something in the term, then ^V it into a Mac application (x11 and xterm or whatever fails on this)
* configurable "what counts as a word" settings, so I can choose to double click and get a whole URL, not just the "http"
* right-clickable URLs, dammit!
* installable without major pain (most ports of linux apps fail on this)
Unless/until someone tells me of a native mac app that does all the above, I'll probably keep using Linux and X for development work.
My other annoyance is that Perl on OSX puts things in slightly odd places and I'm not used to them. I should probably train myself out of that, though... multi-platform is good for me. Really it is.
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Date: 2006-02-12 01:52 pm (UTC)But almost all of what I use a computer for is web, email and photo editing, and it does those using the exact same apps I'd be using on Windows or Ubuntu. So the difference is fit and finish, which is its precise strong point.
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Date: 2006-02-12 03:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-12 01:44 pm (UTC)Christ, my icons are weirdly appropriate at the oddest times.
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Date: 2006-02-12 01:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-12 05:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-12 05:53 pm (UTC)Don't rule out the current wave of iBooks, either. They're not quite as punchy, but they are good machines.
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Date: 2006-02-12 07:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-12 07:26 pm (UTC)The 12" PBs weigh the same as the 12" iBooks? I wouldn't have expected that, though I couldn't tell you why. I'm carrying mine in a low-hanging shoulderbag with no noticeable effect on my notoriously spasmodic back; if your flakiness lines up with mine, you might be able to get away with it.
iBook/Powerbook weight
Date: 2006-02-13 09:19 am (UTC)There's more of a difference in the larger sizes. The 14" iBook is 2.7kg; the 15" Powerbook is 2.55kg. The 17" Powerbook is 3.1 kg. Stupidly heavy, but nice screen.
I spent three years carrying a 1.7kg (Acer) laptop around, and am now carrying a 2.2kg (HP) laptop around. It's sufficiently heavier that I notice much more easily if there's much extra in my bag. But on balance worth it for the features. But I don't think I'd want to carry anything heavier regularly, which pretty much rules out 15" or larger screens. (Typically I just use an external monitor at my regular locations and it doesn't matter. 14" is big enough for the occassional mobile use.)
Ewen
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Date: 2006-02-12 10:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-12 10:10 pm (UTC):-O
Well. Evidently I shall have to consider it!(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-12 11:50 pm (UTC)Your presence would be greatly appreciated, nay, essential!
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Date: 2006-02-18 11:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-19 09:57 am (UTC)Oh well. So, you trading him in?
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Date: 2006-02-13 02:06 pm (UTC)I'm replying just to compliment yourself, arkady and doll for some very EXCELLENT looks whilst out this weekend. Shiny things!
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Date: 2006-02-14 12:29 am (UTC)