This is from Apple’s website, straight from the end of one of their New “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” adverts. 

In reality, the figure is probably closer to 10 mins with a standard Windows XP installation (assuming no firewall / NAT and anti-virus). In fact Microsoft are well aware of this problem as I discovered when I (sadly, long story) had to install Windows Server 2003 on a system at work today…

The final stages of the installation by default brings up a full screen box which proudly announces that Windows has disabled all incoming connections to this computer and prompts you to run Windows Update to download critical security updates before clicking continue (which removes the blanket no incoming connections firewall) !!!

Jen wanted to have a barbecue for her birthday, absolutely brilliant idea until it started pouring of rain resulting in the first semi-indoor barbecue that I’ve ever had the pleasure to be at!

Certainly resulted in a lot of bemused looks from passers by, particularly with smoke streaming out of the front door … it did sort of look like the house was on fire.

Must admit the GUSTie in me was thinking how much this was “doing things differently”. On a related note it really is a small world. Jen is a friend of Morph’s who I haven’t seen in some time. It also appears her flatmates are friends of a number of GUSTies that I see quite regularly…

Anyways, amusing photos of the barbecue can be found here.

Just typical, I start working in Edinburgh (which is usually warmer than Glasgow and it pours here and it’s, apparantly, sunny in Glasgow)

The screenshot also gives me a good opportunity to show off why Macs are so great as network administrator’s systems… points for anyone that can explain what’s funny about the screenshot

You will all remember my post regarding the JustMac business cards… Well I thought i’d heard the last of it until today when I recieved a letter from a solicitor instructed by Christopher Graham of VivatorStudios but masquerading saying it was sent on behalf of JustMac, who have no knowledge of it! claiming the entry to be “of a defamatory nature” and threatening to “raise court proceedings, which proceedings shall include a claim for damages” … Now, grammar aside (and the rest of the letter is just as bad), doesn’t this seem a little foolish from a company who stole my work? Surely I should be sending them nasty letters … not the other way around

Also, they claim it was defamatory to JustMac, I challenge all of you to find anywhere where I say anything nasty about JustMac in that post!! they may consider it to be damaging to VivatorStudios, but damaging isn’t defamatory particularly when you are posting the complete truth. Defamation has to be based on some sort of lie as far as I know…

Still, probably made him feel important sending meaningless letters.

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Excusing the awful pun, I watched the Apple WWDC 06 Keynote today. “The Transition is Complete”. There are no more PowerPC based Macs, they all use Intel processors now. Whilst I admit todays Intel machines are far faster than their PPC equivilents I can’t help but look back at things like Apple’s own page on the G5, celebrating it as the “worlds most advanced processor” and the adverts for the original G3/G4 machines (especially the one with the tanks after the US Government decided that the G4 was a “tactical weapon” and couldn’t be shipped to a number of countries!)

I have owned a PowerPC 601, 603, G3, G4 and used a number of G5 macs. Each time they outperformed the equivilent x86 chip drastically and served me well. Now, strangely, it seems that “think different” has led Apple to think the same as everyone else in their processor choice… but a mac is two things above it’s processor; It’s software & It’s design. In both of these, Apple in unsurpassed.