Today marks the Feast of the Epiphany, end of the twelve days of Christmas, and Día de los Reyes in Spanish-speaking countries.
This is the customary day for gift exchanges in many Christian cultures because it is the day that the Magi finally arrived in Bethlehem with their totally inappropriate gifts after putzing around for over a week because they didn’t want to ask for directions.
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Bummer not having GPS.
Five minutes talking to a local shepherd and they would have been on time.
Men and instructions…ha! 🙂
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They may have been going in the wrong direction but they were making good time!
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Truth is so funny! 😉 😀
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. 🙂
Yeah… I’m a sucker for punishment. 😉
OT: Continuing on my road exploring Win 7, I went looking for tools and such to helm me deal with a few quirks it has that drive me crazy! (Phew! It *IS* Windoze after all!!) 😛 😆
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). 😀
So… for the cat lovers amongst us … enjoy the mighty Bruce! 😀
Ocellated: Cat Blogging
PS: Bryan, surprisingly he has a couple things in common with you. 😉
You ladies certainly don’t mind piling on and getting in a kick when guys are down.
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.
OT: 😆 Well… truth is, I don’t have much choice. 🙂 New systems are shipping with Win 7, and XP was getting too hard to manage, and the X64 version of XP was just an afterthought that never worked right to shut up the *whiners* (the people who actually wanted to get the use of their 64-bit hardware they spent a lot of money on, and anyone who does serious Gfx work on a PC needs more than the 3.5GB – if you are lucky – XP allows). 🙂 And I need to make sure the websites I design work properly in the 11 versions of Win 7. I’d rather be pro-active than get thrown in the deep end and find out the hard way. 😉
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!) 😆
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) 😉 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! 🙂
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. 😉
BTW… I should have added:
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. 😉 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) ;):
Latest Vista 7 Failures and Microsoft Dumping
Yeah, if you want a good price on a system to use as a base, and don’t want to start from scratch, you get stuck with a M$ license. If you want to use it, you end up having to diddle it.
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.
That’s where all my heat is going.
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.
Trust me! If it were up to me, I’d be MORE than happy to send the heat way North! 😉
Glad you liked it hipparchia. 😀 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! 😀
I also liked his blogs about the British Museum (He’s in England, obviously) and this post (with a couple new cats):
Oooh, pretty flowers!
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. 🙂 If I can get them scanned one day, maybe I’ll post them. 🙂
Feel free to post them in comments, or attach them to an e-mail and I’ll post them, There is a 500 pixel width limit on the blog column.
ooooh! pretty flowers indeed! and i love the sphinx pose. i got distracted and didn’t finish scrolling down the page, so i missed the kangaroo cat until you mentioned it.
yes! please send heat! also send pictures of your siamese to bryan. i’d love to see them.
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