Shriekin Geekgasm!
December 9th, 2006 by 
Morgan J. Locke
| OK, so I’ve got a new computer. And it smokes.Unfortunately, this means all my links are out of reach, as I am in mid-migration between the two computers. I had this great post planned on global warming; I bet everyone was panting in anticipation. But it’ll have to wait till I’ve got stuff moved over.Meanwhile,I’m busy having a geekgasm over my new computer. (For further info, check out Mur Lafferty’s podcast on Geekgasm. Scroll down to Lesson 8. Bloody brilliant.)
(Geek Fu Action Grip–Less than five minutes long.) |
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Posted in Daily Life, Morgan, Technology | 
15 Comments »
December 9th, 2006 at 12:36 am
Purty!!! Technical issues aside, you Apple Scruffs always had the most stylin’ hardware!
December 9th, 2006 at 1:09 am
Ooooo. Shiny.
Danny wants one in the worst way. Even YG is muttering about how old our household technology is.
December 9th, 2006 at 1:39 am
Panting causes global warming.
December 9th, 2006 at 7:30 am
so does E-waste
Plz dont get me wrong; a hot new system is cool. It’s just getting harder to get through the day wo mixed feelings
December 9th, 2006 at 8:55 am
I believe Morg is giving the old computer to a criminal. (So it won’t go to waste.)
I believe they intend to set it up to phish for passwords and do spamming and nigerian letters of appeal.
Good thing it’s not going into the e-waste dump.
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And on a serious note, Morg and I have talked about this issue, and we both tend to find homes for old equipment or convert them into servers and the like.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:12 am
But you are right, ranonymous, that e-waste is not a trivial problem. Neither is computer manufacturing, for that matter.
I haven’t bought a new computer in almost six years, though, and I work in a computer-based profession. So I don’t feel guilty about this purchase.
That’s one way I try to minimize the impact of my tech purchases: buy as close to the bleeding edge as I can afford (and expect to need); find a good home for the one I’m letting go; make the new one last as long as I possibly can before buying something new.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:55 am
I’m always finding myself moving info from one computer to the next. I have found that using a 1GB to 2GB Thumb Drive can cut down the data transfer time a great deal. Oh yeah and WOOT for Apples!
Morgan and Steve, I applaud you both for being smart enough to steer “old” technology to good use. It may be technology of the past but it can still be very useful
December 9th, 2006 at 10:06 am
Yeah, I have a 3 gig jump drive that I use for backups and transfer to the laptop for travel.
Eventually I’ll need a better laptop. Right now I’m just using an ancient, tiny G3. It does for word processing, power point and (just barely) spreadsheet work, but is way under-spec for some of the other apps I use. I’m putting it off as long as possible, but eventually I’ll have to cave.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:09 am
We use those in our digital class. They’re super fast for rendering and the wide screen is excellent, but MacOS just makes me crazy.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:19 am
How so, Rachael?
December 9th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Rachael–I’ve known you for years. OS X is not what made you crazy.
December 9th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Maybe not, but it certainly accelerated it….!
You have no idea how long it took me to figure out which icon was for MS Word. It doesn’t even look like a “W”! And then, Safari? That program is horrible. And the folder views are also really annoying. I got the three panel one eventually, but even that is extremely inconvenient. Also, you can’t just copy and paste, first you highlight, and then go to the toolbar. No right click! No middle click! Agghhhh!
December 9th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Actually, there *is* a right click. You just have to change the mouse settings. Go into System Preferences > Keyboard&Mouse > Mouse settings. There should be an image of a mouse with some dropdowns pointing at different stuff. Look for the dropdown that points to the right side of the mouse and select “Secondary Button.” That should do the trick.
December 9th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
To be fair, it depends on the hardware. If you’ve got the mouse with the little tiny rolly ball, then it can be configured to right click. And you can program the little rolly thing for middle click stuff.
But you can also plug in a three button usb mouse and go to town. The Mac doesn’t care.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Of course, now, Morgan’s is bigger than mine.
Talking about I-Macs, what did you think I meant?