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Three PC's and one um user

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.06.15

I bought a Mac Mini. The original reason being to have a quicker and more stable system on which to do my Caritas work (specifically, the photo editing). My long-serving Acer laptop's held up fairly well until recent times, but now has a long list of deficiencies:

-unstable OS (has crashed repeatedly)

-corrupted management tools from the vendor (e.g. Acer eManager no longer works)

-keyboard that causes Windows to crash

-internal DVD-writer that only seems to work when it feels like it

So far the Mac's been fairly straightforward.

"Finder" is crap, though, and I'm amused that neither Apple nor Microsoft can make a usable system/file manager. I've downloaded some options and will be working with those instead.

Meanwhile, the old Acer will now be repurposed as a video-watching system. I'm going to put PC-BSD on it and maybe a couple of other OS's just to see what they're like (OpenSolaris, with its container system, looks very interesting).

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong