Archive for July, 2001
Saturday, July 28th, 2001
I've been playing too much with OSX I guess.
The Gimp is a bit of a marvel. It's absolutely marvelous that ANYONE would consider it to be a competitor with Photoshop or even Color It. Unbelieveable maybe because, frankly, it's pants. And at 190MB it represented about an hours waste of ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2001
A friend has a problem with his IIci.
The IIci was introduced in September 1989 which makes this baby almost 12 years old. The model was discontinued in February of 1993 which means it was actively being sold for almost four years. Incredible.
Anyway. When I started out as a mac techie ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2001
I'm back in the real world right now. Got some good news, got some bad news...
Bad news?
Over six hundred emails in my account (not including work emails) and huge numbers of them were various pissing contests on the various mailing lists I'm on. Culprits? InfiniteLoopList, MacOSXTalk and CrucibleDesign. Thankfully ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2001
I'm pretty disgusted right now. Last night I receive a phone call that in my absence (while I'm stuck in London without net access*) there has been some infighting and general malady within the cheery bunch of friends called Crucible Design. Fact is, I guess, if we didn't care we ...
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Saturday, July 14th, 2001
I'm tired.
I don't think I feel challenged at the moment. I'm also gaining interests in areas other than straight networking. I started teaching part-time two years ago and I'm getting real interested in training as a career. I still like the "work" aspect of IT but training would give me ...
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