Archives for “macintosh”
Submitted via an email form to Comcast this morning: This morning I ran the Comcast install CD wizard on my macintosh. It’s running OS 10.3. When the wizard was finished, the internet connectivity was working great, but for some reason, it changed my shell prompt. Previously, it was displaying Hosaka:> – which is the name [...]
“I’m a strong believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.” – Randall in Clerks That about sums up how I feel right now. When I set up KillingMachines.org, it was the first time I had ever put up a website with a clear goal in mind. And not just a [...]
I finally finished my Max OSX style skin! Head over to the options page and select “Aqua” from the drop down menu. There’s only one catch. It won’t work right under Internet Explorer on a PC. Microsoft has this stupid bug involving transparent .png files, so it’ll look really weird on there. However, if you’re [...]
You know, there’s a feeling you get when you know all a program’s features — including hot keys — that I think few people have experienced lately. SuperPaint. A one-meg program from 1993. I know by muscle memory everything it can do. Vector graphics. Bitmap graphics. Transparency and fill-modes on both. All palettes accessible via [...]
So I’m at The Computer Store. It’s 8:40 AM. Saturday. I’m behind the service counter eating Snak Pak Cheezy Bitz Peanut Butter Crackers. Wearing an “X… The Future Is Here” T-shirt. There are like 50 people in this small store milling around for the OS TEN RELEASE. Floor manager has marked a printer-paper box as [...]
So I’m working at The Computer Store, that’s it’s name, just “The Computer Store” With underline and everything, relic of the old days of Macintosh arrogance. Things behind the service counter: “Kind of like spitting” concert sticker. Laser-printed instructions card for MAME. Catalyst zine, thumbtacked to corkboard Many post-it notes. Cuesta-Rey Centenario Coleccion sticker, from [...]
Ha ha! I might be getting out of retail and joining the Brotherhood of the Cut Thumb and the TORX wrench… Wait. Let me back up. On Wednesday, November 15th, I got a call informing me I was hired at The Computer Store. I commenced to work my retail position on the 20th… After nine [...]
If there’s one thing that Miles and I can relate on (if not agree on), it’s the frustrating feeling of preferring one Operating System/Platform over the one that is favored by the majority of people in your field. Miles is a programmer/gamer who loves Macintosh, and I’m a graphic designer who loves PCs. We’ve talked [...]
You know, I read about an old experiment that showed the human was the most efficient of all animals for distance traveled to calories expended. IF, that is, the human was on a bicycle. Steve Jobs heard about this at the time he was working on the first Macintosh, and declared he wanted to make [...]
