I've had my MacBook for about a year and a half now. I'm not big on extended warranties most of the time, but for a laptop? AppleCare. No question ( Read more... )

Yesterday my MacBook's power adaptor seemed to die. No light, and the battery wasn't charging ( Read more... )

So the MacBook that has not been released yet and that Amazon will not start shipping until June 15 arrived from Amazon yesterday. It's the base model, in white, with DVD/CD-RW and 60 GB hard drive.

I like the heck out of it so far.

To touch on the touchiest first, the glossy display which has provoked much strong reaction is very nice. I'd ( Read more... )

I spoke today to a couple of Indian guys who answer Amazon's phone about why my Apple MacBook MA254LL/A 13.3" Notebook PC (1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD-ROM/CD-RW Drive)- White is still showing a delivery estimate of July 26 ( Read more... )

Looks like the next BMM practice won't be until April 2.

I went to Binghamton early Saturday to go to the annual tent sale at the Eureka Camping Center factory outlet store. I bought a tent made by Eureka for Galyan's, a chain which has since bought out by Dick's Sporting Goods leaving the Galyan's tents orphaned. The tent I bought was not ( Read more... )

I don't know whether to be disappointed or relieved that the rumors -- some of the rumors, anyway -- were wrong; Apple is not introducing an Intel-powered iBook, yet. Instead there's a pro level replacement for the PowerBook (the new name: MacBook Pro) and, big surprise to me at least, an Intel iMac (still iMac). Either of which I'm happy to ( Read more... )

When I use Linux Firefox go to look at web pages that use Greek letters (and other such "symbols", I guess), e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukawa_interaction, I get... well, something else, I don't know what, but it's not Greek letters:
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Best Linux box EVAR.

Paraphrasing Wikipedia:Big cat refers to the medium-to-large wild felids... The term is used to distinguish these large felids from the domestic cat and other smaller felidae species. One area of distinction is that big cats can roar, but cannot purr whilst inhaling, only while exhaling. (The cheetah is an exception, being able to make both sounds ( Read more... )

I have a new computer at work, a Dell Optiplex GX280. No great powerhouse, but sufficient for what I need.

Today I installed Scientific Linux 3.0.4 on it. This is a RHEL clone, put together by some high energy physics laboratory people. As their web site shows, I was not the first to install it on a GX280, and I had similar success -- video is ( Read more... )