The Windows Hating Windows User

Virtualization… for Windows?

maclover — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:37:41 +0000

Well I was thinking for a little bit, and while daydreaming I stumbled along a little thought. Everyone's been talking [sings]('bout a new way of walking…)[/sings] about Windows virtualization in macs. Well this would be wonderful in my opinion.But there could be something just as incredible in my opinion, yet for the windows community. What if there were a OS X to windows virtualization program? You could have all your windows programs, and then your universal mac programs along with it. The developer would probably get clobbered by Apple legal, yet it could be pretty nifty….

Set up

maclover — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:33:37 +0000

Not many people who have not seen it personally know a lot about my setup, so I wanted to share it with the rest of the world (and I just needed a good reason to post ).

If you’re reading this, you probably know that I don’t have a mac. I got a Windows box a couple of years ago and oddly enough within a few months I really didn’t like windows. It’s a Dell Dim. 4600, 2.66 ghz (which I wanted to overclock even though I can’t…), 1.25 megs of RAM, and 200 gigs of HDD space, both of those quintupled from my original amounts.

My parents brought in a computer–used– to replace their now old computer, but it was not an improvement so we had a computer and a spare monitor just collecting dust. I wanted to buy a new monitor, as a CRT is a bit clunky, but figured that I would just use the monitor and have a dual display setup; I got an adapter for the DVI slot and it’s just so awesome.

I’m thinking of setting up a cluster with some old computers at the moment–nothing official. But I am almost positive that I will put Ubuntu on the old computer.

Well there you have it; don’t have a camera to post pictures though.

Dapper Flight 5

maclover — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:35:30 +0000

I thought today, after seeing the news that it has been released, that I would download the live CD. Got it downloaded, burned it, but it didn’t boot right. I think it was Nautilus or something that wouldn’t boot. Oh well, I’ll wait for the full release
Anyways, I thought the new graphical splash screen thingy is much better. Not much of a hassle, just a few clicks and go.

One of the new features on the live CD that I’m looking forward to is the persistence thing. If installing it on my computer doesn’t work correctly like it did with 5.10, then this will be a really helpful feature.

I’m still up in limbo with the new theme. I think it looks nicer than the old human theme, but I want to see it a lot and not just in screenshots. Reminds me a bit of one of the old Longhorn themes; I forget the build number.

The new icons are plain beautiful.

I didn’t get to test out any of the other stuff because of the boot errors, but if it’s a problem with the CD I’ll just burn another one and update.

Podcasts

maclover — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 03:07:59 +0000

Well i just got home from a miniature vacation type thing, and I decided to hang around and give a post. I was having trouble thinking of something and decided, quite randomly, to talk about a few podcasts.

A lot of these my big bro showed me a few weeks ago, and a few I found on my own. “The Onion Radio News” is about 45 seconds each and just spoofs the news. It’s really hysterical, and probably one of the two most random things I’ve ever seen.

The other would probably be “Ask a Ninja,” where a guy dressed up in a ninja suit takes question and throws out insane answers.

Strong Bad E-mails– ’nuff said.

So ya, I couldn’t really think of anything else, there hasn’t been really anything going on lately. Have fun listening!

Impressions on today’s event; Intel switch so far.

maclover — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:35:07 +0000

Well it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted. Due mainly to dino (you can thank him), I decided to finally post.

Anyhoo, onto the post. I personally thought today’s event was a big dissapointment; I was expecting more and better. I am neutral as far as the looks of the hi-fi, I am not in love with it but I don’t think it’s butt ugly. If it can absurdly insane quality that blows everything away, it may justify it’s price. Otherwise, it’s too expensive. I personally can use my computer as a stereo type thing, as all my music is right on iTunes. But it costs more than an iPod for crying out loud!!

The Mac mini was the bright spot of the event. Although the prices are raise I do believe they are jusitified, they did a lot to it to make it better.

The leather cases– no comment.

I think the Intel switch has been going well, and ahead of where I expected it to be. THe speeds (according to apple) are being raised absurdly! And the fact of Universal Binaries should be good. THe one dissapointment of it so far is that Adobe’s creative suite 2 will not come out to be universal. It could in theory push the Powermac (or whatever it will be called) back or else they could lose the graphic designers as they would want a good speed in the CS and not have to deal with Rosetta.

Glad to be posting again, hopefully many people will be reading it!

iSkin eVo3

maclover — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:45:52 +0000

iSkin has just announced today the iSkin eVo3. I have a few things to say about it:

1)I really shouldn’t be able to care less; I don’t have a 5G. But, it’s interesting stuff.

2)It looks nice and all, yet it looks very complicated

3)They say it has a anti-dust coating. I honestly doubt it will truly work, but we’ll see.

More Battlefront

maclover — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:17:18 +0000

So as you probably know, I just bought Battlefront II the other day. Well, I must say, I love it.

Fighting in Space is awesome. It is really, really cool.

Jedis are really cool. It was funny to be underwater playing as Yoda on Dagobah. They are awesome and really powerful, and can easily get many kills.

Some of the features they’ve added such as capture the flag, both 1 and 2 flags, Hunt, etc. And an extra dimension to the game.

The story mode is good, yet it can be fairly easy. I haven’t beaten the game yet, so it might get harder in the future.

Well, I’ll be playing a lot more, I’m addicted.

Halloween, Star Wars

maclover — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:59:28 +0000

Well, it turns out I can’t go trick or treating this year. I have some stuff to do, and this is the first time in many years in which I have not been trick-or-treating. Oh well, there’s next year.

Also, Star Wars and Battlefront II come out tomorrow–I can’t wait! It will be an awesome day. THe entire set will be so awesome. Too bad I have to wait till past six to play them…

Wow

maclover — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:42:02 +0000

Wow, just wow. Now, Tux the Linux Penguin can milk cows. Yes, you heard me, there is now a machine that lets cows choose when to be milked. And it runs on Linux. It identifies the cow, finds her udders, cleans the undercarriage, and sets her free. Find the whole story and link at http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/23/072222

Intel Mac names

maclover — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:04:33 +0000

I was reading something like this over at iL, and I began to think about it myself. What will the new Apple Computers be called as far as like G5 or something? I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Apple keeps the generation names, but does it like iPod generations. Of course they would still have updates and stuff to them, but when there’s a drastic change, they would change the Gen name. But also, just going by “Powerbook”, or something of that sort, screwing the last part of the name would make sense too. They aren’t on processors that have a Gen name, so just go by the name of the computer. Could go by “(name goes here) Intel.”

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