I HATE APPLE

I read backwards:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/06/11/snow-leopard-to-be-intel-only-but-not-64-bit-only

What is good for beautifully crafting hard equations?

latex

I think it's still up in the air: http://gizmodo.com/5014251/source-os-x-106-snow-leopard-will-support-powerpc-chips

God knows why though.

xp, an installation of MacTex and either http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/EquationService/ or http://evolve.lse.ac.uk/software/EquationEditor/

I know latex but how much screen real estate?

that EquationService looks v. nice xp

Oh, I see. You really want 1920x1200 so you can fit the editor and PDF preview on the same screen and have the PDF big enough that you don't have to zoom to examine typographic weirdness.

My desktop for TeX:
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6232/picture2aw7.png

Is what I thought. so 24" minimum. 30" if you want to win the wang contest and maybe have a window of something else.

Yes. There are a couple of 30" displays around the dept., but the people who succeed in making a case for spending your tax dollars on them are doing serious simulation work which they claim means they need a massive display to view the huge images. Most people get a 24" iMac or a 24" Dell 2407 if they use their own machine.

I actually wrote the first twenty pages of that paper on a MacBook using VirtueDesktops (pre-Leopard Spaces). That was a drag.

By serious simulation work I mean things like examining the output of http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/ (although that isn't an Oxford project). It does look very cool on a 30" display.

macbook driving a dell 2407wfp => there's your extra screen

That is what I do. itunes and a terminal running mutt down on the MacBook.

And me. Although the MacBook screen is appallingly shit.

24" is OK, but it's better if you have 2 of them.

would they stretch to this?

http://nastyhobbit.files.wordpress.com/2005/10/multi-monitors.jpg

probably not, i'm guessing.

i think i'm probably not going to notice much difference between a 23 inch and 24 inch display, at a guess. maybe i could get an extra 24 inch and run both.

ed - yep, same email addresses as ever.

I think the Apple 23" panel is the same panel that is in the Dell 24" and the true dimension is somewhere in between. It is the pixel count that matters and I think 1920x 1200 is what you want.

We have to run InDesign off 20" screens at work. It's an abuse of human rights.

We also have some Dell 24" at work, and the refresh on them is some ghostly messy shit. I don't know if they're the same ones linked above, tho.

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/8141/desktopln2.png

We have to run InDesign off 20" screens at work. It's an abuse of human rights

i turned mine on its side. for broadsheet work, it's pretty neat.

we got in an apple and a dell and some eizo panel to compare, and we went with the eizo. the dell's were a bit variable. there was little between the apple and the eizo except the eizo was a bit more configurable (movable height stand!!!11) and our colour calibration guy seemed to like it enough to justify the 40 quid extra

. for broadsheet work, it's pretty neat.

For tabloid work, it's not.

Well, for single pages it's OK. I did it once. But I deal with too many spreads.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/2509741368_147e74c18b.jpg?v=0

now with everything in zenburn

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/15/mobileme-not-so-pushy/

So, now that I have a machine in my office as well, is there a good way of keeping ical and address book in sync between multiple machines without paying for mobileme?

Fuck Apple for having shit inventory and a HORRIBLE system for buying iPhone 3G.

Fuck you, Apple.

Toby, there are ways of doing it through google calendar but the best os x tool for doing it is paid for but I forget its name.

new i phone, new suit - quite the spending spree you're kicking off here, Don!

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Dandy Don! Long time.

Fuck Apple for having shit inventory and a HORRIBLE system for buying iPhone 3G.

Fuck you, Apple.

-- Dandy Don Weiner, Friday, 18 July 2008 02:36 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Five days. Apple can suck my nuts.

toby I think maybe busysync will help you but it's $25

http://www.busymac.com/

did os9 have a web browser or would i have to download one seperately (on another computer obv)

There was IE, mozilla, Netscape, Opera and Cyberdog might still run on it.

but there's not one built in? what did people do in the old days?

so pretty; I love kate moross

http://www.flickr.com/photos/katemo/2677813099/

DG It came with IE 4. You could upgrade to IE 5 at the time, but nowadays your only option is WamCom Mozilla 1.3.1, which is the best of a sorry, sorry bunch.

was there even an X11 implementation for classic (could one as an xterm lol)

it's because i bought an old powermac off ebay for cd ripping purposes and it has os 9 on a partition which i looked at briefly (and couldn't find a browser). are there lolz to be had or should i just leave it alone?

btw, google is pretty close to implementing CalDAV so don't buy some dodgey shit shareware for calendar syncing

There's fuck-all in the way of lolz, I don't think. We only dumped them at work last month, and it just misery. Mozilla's the only one that comes close to actually rendering modern pages, and it crashes all the time. Yr browsers should be in Applications > Internet Utilities

It is nice to see what a working Finder is like, I suppose.

The only X11s were commercial -- eXodus was one, and it was pricey.

That is probably on TPB

Fuck Apple in the three states I've tried to buy an Iphone. Fuck the 5th Ave store for selling me headphones that didn't work, which required another visit to that insane asylum.

Fuck Apple for making me pray that my cracked-screen iPhone will survive while I wait for inventory issues to "resolve".

And fuck me for using my fingers to lick every drop of the Apple Kool-aid.

fuck an os9, what a load of rubbish! i got on the internets though :D

fuck one (1) apple

the key to a successful product launch: MAKE SOME PRODUCT

ON IPHONE

what would be the UNIX/terminal command to delete the file LockBackground.jpg from private/var/mobile/Library

??

worked it out: rm -i /private/var/mobile/Library/LockBackground.jpg

ok ok ok what the fuck

everybody do this with me

place one finger on your trackpad. move another finger up and down on the trackpad. voila, you're scrolling

don't even bother calling me a noob, this is fkn exciting!