T-Minus One Week

We are one week away from an Apple event. Hopefully, it will be ground shaking. I'm not really that happy about speculation of a tablet, but if the tablet has enough features to be compelling and isn't as costly as most presume, then I'll probably buy one.

Pretty Good Year

Most likely, I will bork the date here. I have no records anymore. I mean, none of the time I spent in Greensboro, N. C. watching Tori Amos is recorded AND in my possession. Does that cover it?

It was a good year. One of those years you fill with the hope of recognition and supplement it with enough action to make it all real. Real enough to remember even now, life couldn't get better than that!

I mean, as long as you're me.

Bootcamp 7

What's this? New version of Bootcamp released?

No. The title is a mash of OS X Bootcamp and Windows 7. It's a silly mash, sure. I think it gets the point across.

This weekend was a pleasant combination of finding out new things about my new Mac mini's capabilities and discovering that Windows 7 comfortably impressive.

"Why the whole weekend?" you might ask. Well, I wanted to make sure I could back out and restore the new machine to good-as-new status in case the Windows 7 install went south. Easy task with Target Disk Mode, just fire up the wire with a control Mac waiting for the incoming disk, then you need only have a decent backup product. SuperDuper performed that role nicely. The other thing which took a lot of time was the download of the two DVDs. Instead of just getting the 32-bit ISO, I opted to get the 64-bit ISO as well, just to see if it would work. It did, except quite a few Bootcamp features would not work since it is currently only targeting 32-bit Windows. Sound simply isn't available. It was able to pickup both my Bluetooh mouse and Bluetooth keyboard. After a short troubleshooting and trying to force Windows 7 64-bit to work, I decided to just give-in and reinstall with the 32-bit ISO. It's good to know that should so 64-bit limited item come out I can give that a go if the need arises.

My happiest moments was reading the Bootcamp help document and discovering that you can right-click with a Mighty Mouse. It's upper-right click sensitive, which gives you access to all those context menus in Windows. I wasn't using a Mighty Mouse. This was a Magic Mouse and it works just fine the same way! After seeing this about Mighty Mouse, my investigation continued to my other machine to see if this was in-fact true. Yes, it's true -- for almost four (4) years, I've been ctrl-clicking to get to context menus on my Mac, all the while it was capable of a right-click (given a quick configuration change in System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse and not ignoring the right setting.

At first the majority of space I set for Windows 7, not knowing how much it might need. It was pretty meager though, so I scaled it back in order to make best use of the Mac side as a home storage machine.

The Reset Might Have Helped

Expecting a massive sp@m wave, the filters were keyed to full. So far, there has been very few sp@m messages. Maybe, just maybe, the time off the net deterred the sp@mmers enough.

How much downtime? Sometime in 2007 the server dropped offline. That makes about two years plus a month or two without even a bounce - almost blackhole level loss.

To me, the payoff is worth the loss.

EOD (End of Delay)

With only the few aliases to add, email is now in order!

Passing off the hosting to another eases the burden well worth the cost.

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