Archive | August, 2002

31 August 2002 ~ Comments Off

BusinessWeek: "Apple has always been

BusinessWeek: “Apple has always been a bit of a religion. Part of what has always been missing was a temple.”

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30 August 2002 ~ Comments Off

Jaguar Upgrade

I’ve finished upgrading my PowerBook to Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). Everything went very smoothly; I was expecting trouble with some applications that have been reported as slightly incompatible, but everything seems to be working fine. The OS feels a bit snappier, but not in a mind-blowing way.

Mail.app is much improved; I now prefer it to Entourage, so I’ve moved all of my mail into it. I’ll be training the junk mail filter over the next week; I’ll post a followup on that.

As far as I can tell, the other shining star in this release is Sherlock. Not that it does anything that I couldn’t do previously over the Web, but it does get a lot of information that I need often under one convenient roof. I suspect I’m going to be using this very often.

One point worth noting: the upgrade took a long time, close to an hour. I don’t have that much stuff on my TiBook, considering I’ve only been using it for about six weeks. What gives?

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30 August 2002 ~ Comments Off

Jaguar is here. Can't wait

Jaguar is here. Can’t wait to get it on my machine—next time I post it will be from the new OS! More to follow soon…

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28 August 2002 ~ Comments Off

"Nations have no permanent friends

“Nations have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. Only permanent interests.”
Benjamin Disraeli

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27 August 2002 ~ Comments Off

A rip-roarin' Texas-style "howdie

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A rip-roarin’ Texas-style “howdie pardner!” to my friend Juan Rubio.

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