yes! please send heat! also send pictures of your siamese to bryan. i’d love to see them.
.-= last blog ..Helping Haiti =-.
Glad you liked it hipparchia. π I was thinking of you, Brya and a couple others and decided to post it here. I really liked the ‘Sphinx’ post! Yeah… sums up a cat! And the ‘Kangaroo Cat’ had me laughing! π
I also liked his blogs about the British Museum (He’s in England, obviously) and this post (with a couple new cats):
I miss my Siamese… I found a couple photo’s of them when searching through my boxes for something over Christmas. My male was at least as long as Bruce. π If I can get them scanned one day, maybe I’ll post them. π
]]>yeah. mine too. if you didn’t want yours, bryan, you could have shipped it over here, instead of all the way to the other side of the world.
kryten, my eternal thanks to you for the ocellated blog. what a delightful place! i loved the bobcat kittens.
]]>I understand about the need to please clients instead of yourself. I just did an update on a program that I wrote three decades ago, and have been trying to migrate to something else for years. The problem is that the “new” languages don’t handle math very well, and there is some tricky calculating going on to establish discounts and penalties. You have to do that sort of thing absolutely consistently, or clients scream, mine and my client’s clients.
Yes, Macs have problems, but they tend to be more black and white from the point of view of the typical user, i.e. it doesn’t work right. PC complaints don’t always break out into easy recognized hardware/software problems. In addition Mac users tend not to be quite as experimental, and the hardware tends to be much more limited, usually Apple only. That is one of the reasons I don’t like Macs, the single vendor monopoly on hardware, which is as bad as M$.
Every extra layer is another opportunity for problems, but it keeps you out of the pool hall.
When people ask me what happened to global warming, I just point them to Australia’s current summer. That’s where all my heat is going.
]]>Athough it’s called ‘Windows 7’, it really should be called ‘Vista 7’ since the core is mostly migrated from Vista. Basically, the old Wolf in new clothes. π Though… they have managed to fix it somewhat, and as I said, I don’t have much choice really. *shrug* Here’s a good article about the latest M$ dumping and con-artist shenanigans (the article has a pic of a cute little kitten, just FYI) ;):
]]>I do have to say, so far… the advantages of Win 7 (the x64 version anyway) outweigh the disadvantages. Which is far more than I can say for Vista, and XP is basically even regarding good vs. bad. I was expecting more compatibility issues than I have found so far. (Who knows… Maybe M$ accidentally got something right for once? I know… dreaming!) π
I actually have a multoboot system on 4 internal HDD’s (My BIOS allows me to select the boot drive, which solves the problems with many boot managers between versions of Windoze & Linux!) XP Pro SP3, Win 7 Ultimate X64, Ubuntu 9.10, CentOS 5.4 x86_64. Though, I plan to give OSL2000 Boot Manager another try as it now supports all the OS’s I use, and I want to try a few others (bit can only have 4 bootable HDD’s) π I used OSL many years ago (been around since W95!) and it was a good freeware tool. I think I even had it reg’d years ago! π
I was a fully certified Service Manager for 3 years (until 2007) for Mac’s… Trust me, they have their problems! And Apple are not much different to M$ in my book! Still… I do have a PowerBook G4 Titanium (and I had a G5 Powermac… but the less said about that, the better), which was one of the best Apple made IMHO! Of course, it doesn’t run the latest Intel OSX’s or apps. *shrug* But it does what I got it for. π
Kryten, you are a gluten for punishment. Bill will suck you in and then the house of cards will come down around your ears. Windows 7 might actually be a stable version of the software but I’m not going to depend on it.
Look at what you’re going through and imagine what it’s like for someone who just wants to use a computer, not understand it or fix it. That has always been the biggest difference between Macs and PCs – Macs are a tool, not an extra job.
]]>Anyway, I found a nifty tiny tool to fix a couple of annoyances that also apparently annoyed the creator who runs a blog. I decided to post it because he also blogs about his cat and has some pretty good pics of his *unusual* Siamese kitty (as some of you know, I am a big fan of Siamese cat’s and have had a couple). π
So… for the cat lovers amongst us … enjoy the mighty Bruce! π
PS: Bryan, surprisingly he has a couple things in common with you. π
]]>Truth is so funny! π π
OT: Been busy fixing my main PC and finally got around to installing Win 7 Ultimate x64. So far, so good (amazingly!) Found a 64-bit build of Firefox 3.5 and it’s much faster than FF ever was on XP (and W7 is a LOT faster than XP). So far, only one unimportant s/w doesn’t run, and I can probably fix that if I could be bothered with one of the many *compatibility* settings, and the standard Apache server. I found a Win x64 version of Apache, which hopefully will fix that. π
Yeah… I’m a sucker for punishment. π
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