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More Overheated Porn Hysteria
this time in the Canadian Navy.

Commodore Eric Lerhe, the chief of the Canadian Pacific fleet, has been suspended from duty and faces a possible court-martial. For high treason? No, for looking at porn on the web.

Now what do ya’ll native Canadians have to comment?

A man does not sexually harass women because he reads pornography. A man sexually harasses women because he’s an asshole.

is probably the best rebuttle to the whole “porn makes men evil to women” angle.

Katie could be a useful tool for the source code revision woes at work. What do ya think all?

Katie could be a useful tool for the source code revision woes at work. What do ya think all?

To follow up on my last post, i just saw a link on pricewatch that has 256 megs of Mac memory for $32. Sorry, considering going from a 500 Mhz chip to a 600 Mhz chip is about $100, but QUADRUPLING by memory to insane levels is about $32….. it is so foolish for Apple to sell anything less than 256 megs of RAM in any of their products.

I know that RAM is supposed to be an upsell, but heck, why not make SURE that everyone has plenty of RAM, and upsell things like digital cameras and other accessories that *gasp* use memory.

If I didn’t already have 160 megs of memory in my iMac (which, if you are not using classic, feels likea decent but not awesome amount) I would buy a big ol’ 256 megs stick of RAM and have 384 megs….

To follow up on my last post, i just saw a link on pricewatch that has 256 megs of Mac memory for $32. Sorry, considering going from a 500 Mhz chip to a 600 Mhz chip is about $100, but QUADRUPLING by memory to insane levels is about $32….. it is so foolish for Apple to sell anything less than 256 megs of RAM in any of their products.

I know that RAM is supposed to be an upsell, but heck, why not make SURE that everyone has plenty of RAM, and upsell things like digital cameras and other accessories that *gasp* use memory.

If I didn’t already have 160 megs of memory in my iMac (which, if you are not using classic, feels likea decent but not awesome amount) I would buy a big ol’ 256 megs stick of RAM and have 384 megs….

A great article on why MacOSX seems slow. I gotta tell you, not just as a Mac Bigot (which I am) but also a Linux bigot (which I also am), I love MacOSX. It is WAY too cool for words. However, some operations do seem slow… I tend to avoid moving windows as much as possible.

The solution given in the article? two things: 1) Get Apple to optimize OSX (which Apple is doing and will just take time). 2) get more memory! MacOSX is very memory intensive, but is speedy when it has memory to gobble.

Which leads me to my point. Why the HELL doesn’t Apple just sell 256 megs of RAM with every single machine they sell now. The system requirements for OSX is AT LEAST 128 Megs of RAM, and yet that is the base for most computers (and some actually sell with 64 megs of RAM). It is like the original iMac that required at least 40 megs of RAM to have OS8.x up *and* Netscape…. immediatelys sending anyone with only 32 megs of RAM into virual memory and feeling slow. Given opening Netscape was the primaty purpose of the machine to 99% of the people who bought it, this was unacceptable.

RAM is cheap. RAM is super cheap, and it is the most cost-effective way to make a machine feel zippy even when its processor is a little old *cough g3 cough*. Apple should base everything on having 256 megs of RAM and be done with it.

A great article on why MacOSX seems slow. I gotta tell you, not just as a Mac Bigot (which I am) but also a Linux bigot (which I also am), I love MacOSX. It is WAY too cool for words. However, some operations do seem slow… I tend to avoid moving windows as much as possible.

The solution given in the article? two things: 1) Get Apple to optimize OSX (which Apple is doing and will just take time). 2) get more memory! MacOSX is very memory intensive, but is speedy when it has memory to gobble.

Which leads me to my point. Why the HELL doesn’t Apple just sell 256 megs of RAM with every single machine they sell now. The system requirements for OSX is AT LEAST 128 Megs of RAM, and yet that is the base for most computers (and some actually sell with 64 megs of RAM). It is like the original iMac that required at least 40 megs of RAM to have OS8.x up *and* Netscape…. immediatelys sending anyone with only 32 megs of RAM into virual memory and feeling slow. Given opening Netscape was the primaty purpose of the machine to 99% of the people who bought it, this was unacceptable.

RAM is cheap. RAM is super cheap, and it is the most cost-effective way to make a machine feel zippy even when its processor is a little old *cough g3 cough*. Apple should base everything on having 256 megs of RAM and be done with it.

Nice little procmail tutorial.

Nice little procmail tutorial.

slashdot has story that fuckedcompany is saying that VALinux, the owners of slashdot, is going to be laying people off. A comment has a link to mcdonald’s career page. Oh the irony.