Older blog entries for andrewsj (starting at number 2)

well my airport is working great on the iBook. I took a walk outside to see how good the range was. I got a good 100+ feet. I am sitting outside across the way and listening to some mp3's streaming from mp3.com and typing this. I am heading over to a friends tonight to help them get there wedding pics.

on a tech note I tried hooking my digital camera (Agfa Ephoto cl18) to the iBook, but no go. I am thinking about maybe porting gPhoto to Os X, but I also downloaded debian for ppc, and will install it maybe soon.

School wise, just 4 days until classes. I am taking some neat classes next semester and am looking forward to returning. Well my friend is here, have to head out...

I had written my diary entry already, but unfortunately I have learned that Internet Explorer can crash at the worst times.

I want very much to be programming in SDL again, but haven't got sdl_image and sdl_mixer to work under Mac OS X, so I am spinning my wheels. Anyone with any info, contact me!!!

While cooking dinner (more later on it), I listened forf a while to TechNetCast, and most interesting was a stream about .net. It gave a lot of talk about what exactly CLR is and what it means. The speaker gave a lot of interesting remarks about java, and open source. He said that Sun is doing the same stuff as .net and that both teams (M$ & Sun) have been working off of each others work. Interestingly he gave a very nice compliment to open source, calling us the artists. He compared VB programmers and the sort to liquor salesmen (ok, to really get this listen to the stream).

My last thing of the day has been cooking. I have tried once again to make risotto, and it came out much better this time. Cooking is my third love (after my fiance Emily Janovyak, whom I will marry next summer, and open source programming). I really wish I could attend some cooking classes or lessons. Maybe I can get an internship at a nice eatery, and learn on weekends (although I don't think my resume which is all technical and greenhouse work would really impress them at all). Maybe someday....

17 Aug 2001 (updated 17 Aug 2001 at 18:00 UTC) »

Well, I am posting this on my new iBook. I finally made the decision to simplify my computer life and finalize on one computer. So after much research I decided on getting this. As far as the hardware goes, it can not be beat by any other company out there. The screen rocks, and the detail that apple put into the iBook is amazing. The titanium was interesting, but I ultimately decided on this because it offered almost the same performance at a lower cost and it is more portable. So far I have a few things happen inside of Mac Os X that shouldn't have happened, but they are small. Hopefully the update will help. By the way this is my first mac. I will change it to be dual booting with linuxppc, but I don't want to do anything until I get the update to os x, since I want dvd support in os x before I get rid of os 9. So eventually I will have a day or two of struggle getting linuxppc working ;) Anyway I am impressed with the software since it is the power of unix with the user functionality of apple. Dang, it is 2 am and my neighbors have friends over creating a lot of noise. I hate noise. (Which is another reason for the apple since they are quiet as a mouse, while the sony vio sounds like a jet taking off).

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