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Computers big and small
Big computers: I got the G5 on Monday. It is certainly the largest computer I've ever owned, and yet, it does in fact look like a giant cheese grater. I have named it Stilton.
I have been quiet, but not from the G5 -- I actually haven't haven't had much of a chance to play with it yet. ICG stuff has my hams a-fryin. We're in daily-slip mode on this project. (Which is to say, the launch-date slips forward a day for each, um, day that passes. Hmm... though as I write this, it's down to an hour-by-hour thing. At least the done-time now seems to be permanently suspended a couple of hours into the future, as opposed to a couple of weeks, as it has been for the last 18 months. So there's some sort of graphable progression here, I'm sure.) This is also why I've been socially invisible for the last week or so, and will continue to be so until I'm not anymore.
First impressions on the Mac, anyway:
It's weird to be unable to shut off the monitor. It was weirder to learn that the monitor's power button sleeps the computer! (You can shut this off in System Preferences, and thereafter the monitor's power button does nothing at all.) It's clear that Apple wants the user to see the monitor (sorry, "display") as part of the computer, rather than a stand-alone peripheral; I can see where they're coming from, though I wasn't expecting this.
Now that I have two Macs I might subscribe to .mac just for the synchronization features, but part of me would feel bad about it; can't I just write some perl scripts instead? Isn't that worth saving $100? meeenh
I have some fun projects involving the new beastie already underway, insofar I've entered into the eBay-running for various doohickeys that would help me start implementing my smart-house (cough) ideas. Perhaps they'll start arriving when I start my vacation...
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>the synchronization features, but part of me would feel bad
>about it; can't I just write some perl scripts instead?
>Isn't that worth saving $100? meeenh
If you just want to sync the data, rsync would be your friend. :)
I was in the 'storage area' today where I saw half a dozen G4 towers hanging out, along with a couple iMacs - interesting to see them just sitting on the shelf :)
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