Johann Low

日曜日, 1月 23, 2005

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My Mac was working fine with the preinstalled update of 10.3.5. When I 1st started it, I was prompted to download it but I knew from some of the readings in forums that some updates if improperly installed wil cause unnecessary problems, some Mac users even have to reinstall e whole OS.

Anyway to cut the story short, I did an update to my Mac which is now OS X 10.3.7. Everything seemed fine at first, until I launched Azureus, Mac's bittorent client. The damm prgm cannot launch!! I tried to remove to the prgm, do repair permission, re download the prgm, nothing works!! Tho i did somehow got a hinch that if i also download the update to the Java console thingy to my Mac, it might work. But I did not.

My precious files which were like more than 50-60% completed were all removed by me cos I was well, dumb. An online friend who is more experienced in Mac stuff helped me to find the solution, it was in the prgm homepage but i did not bother to look properly. There was another user who had the same problem and his prob was solved when he updated the Java thingy.

Had my 1st Jpn lesson after 5 yrs of absence. Honestly alot of stuff I have forgotten and lucky for me, the 1st lesson was not too hard. haha..But then I was quite suprised that there were a few of my new classmates who had some difficulty reading and pronoucing some Jpn characters. I was dead beat after going home. The blazing sun did not help. The rays were cutting through my flesh like a giant laser. The sun was like a gigantic laser blaster,which led to think of the Death Star in Star Wars..hahaha. It was already evening time and the sun was no less brighter than the afternoon sun!

Anyway tml is back to work again. And soon my colleague will be on leave again and I'll have to cover her duties. Recently, there were quite a number of urgent bookings where the Jpn will be checking in like the next day or 2 days after. WTF is this? Then the best thing is some of the most famous hotels in SG, those reservation officers are not polite, well maybe to Singaporeans. I have to test if there is a double standard if I were to speak in a Jpn accent.

But if there is, I am not suprised. *shrugs*

How shld computing be like? A PC or personal computer should be like the Mac. In fact the first personal computer WAS the Mac in the early eighties. Somehow, IBM and Windoz and its whole brood of clones overtook Apple to be the mainstream PC now.

If u look at computing today, that is if u r a Wintel/Windoz user. The 1st thing u have to worry is to worry abt once u r logged into the internet are trojans, viruses,worms,spyware,adware, malware,whatever-ware there is to exploit the vunlerabilies of the Windoz OS. It is a fact that any PC (meaning Windoz users) which is left connected to the net without any firewall, or anti-virus prgm wil b infected within 16 min. This 16 min is a lenient estimate. It was from a 40 min to a 16 min. Why will anyone have to deal with all these when computing shld be easy and effortless and fun? Why will anyone wanna pay over $500 for a piece of bloated ware which are full of problems?

Anything u can do on a Windoz, a Mac can do it too, if not better.

Take a look at this http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf05/

This is a presentation of the latest Apple Expo showcasing the latest Apple products. If any Windoz user protest what's e big deal, it is prob that they know that what they saw is what they wanted, in their Windoz...but will nv surface. Longhorn will debut sometime in 2006-2007 making use of a dual core processor which will be the norm by then. It will need at least 4GB of RAM to run it, alone and 1TB (1024GB) of disk space. And u wil need a top end GPU to run its graphics. Which will prob says, u need a $2-3k machine to run a piece of bloated ware which will prob be the same as its ancestors, full of problems, full of holes.

Then again, who will noe?

elow at 8:21 午後 |

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