Comments by Randall Million

The last three Macs I have owned ended up with some sort of hardware failure.

My wife's iBook G4 is currently dead, with the power charging daughter board being knocked loose from the main board. Her replacement (my laptop) has the screen knocked askew from the keyboard. (Don't drop them when they are open.)

Which leaves me back with my trusty QuickSilver G4 (upgraded to dual 1.33 Ghz G4's). The PSU fan in it died a couple of years ago, so I taped and old case fan to the outside to cool it down. Unfortunately, it doesn't do a good enough job when the case is closed, so it is open on my floor when running. (If I close the case, it only takes about 10 minutes before it overheats and hangs.) Oh yeah, and something shorted out the built-in ethernet a very long time ago.

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Malcolm J said on December 2, 2008:

And which of the following would you recommend:
1) Drobo
2) Small (mini-ITX) computer running FreeNAS and RAID 5

I have been excessively happy with the ReadyNAS NV. I haven't had a drive fail, but putting in a new one to automatically increase the size of the RAID set was dead simple.

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I am so glad to hear that you are working on your plugin for the monstrosity which is becoming 2.7. It was somewhat usable (in icon form) right up until they made all b/w icons that all look the same. All the work to figure out how to make it easier to use, only to lose a great deal of it to create the visual look they wanted. Crikey.

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I did a fairly poor job of defining the word “use”. Very early TiVo’s had the option to work without service as a digital VCR, recording shows by time and channel. This feature is all some people were looking for.

Personally, I am happy with the Series 2 in the living room and can’t justify spending $10 a month to run the old TiVo next to the elliptical in the basement.

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I did a fairly poor job of defining the word “use”. Very early TiVo’s had the option to work without service as a digital VCR, recording shows by time and channel. This feature is all some people were looking for.

Personally, I am happy with the Series 2 in the living room and can’t justify spending $10 a month to run the old TiVo next to the elliptical in the basement.

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I have seen some absolutely horrific prints come out of the local "quick photo" places. Many times the machines can be out of calibration and the staff is unable to correct them. The best they could do with this picture of our my daughter was to brighten the dress to a brilliant white and give her a skin tone of a very dark brown.

We found a local photo store that did the pictures for about the same price and made them look good. (They adjust the print color in each of the photos individually, based on instructions.) I have no plans to go with a photo printer or back to an instant photo again.

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In the original post, I had typed up a post script relating to the 9 (typed) page post script I was going to tackle next. But that just got a little bit depressing, so I cut it out.

My ToDo list (which actually is a combination of Next Actions, Project, Someday/Maybe and other assorted lists) is a simple text file that I keep on my desktop. I currently just email myself ToDo’s and paste them in the list in the evening. To keep track of them during the day, I print them out, 4-up double sided, fold the paper three times, and stick it in the 3×5 black book I carry with my wallet.

And I don’t actually leave all emails with ToDo’s in the Inbox:
* If it is a receipt, then I put it into the “@Waiting” folder until the package actually arrives.
* If it is an action for a project I am working on (and I have dedicated folder on my computer for it), I’ll drag the message out and start the file name with “ToDo - “.
* Actions which are just listed in an email are pasted into a ToDo list.
* Ideas for web log posts are pasted in as drafts.

In theory, the only things remaining will be where the ToDo is based on the email, and not just the information it contains (e.g. Reply to this email). In practice, it’s been a repository for stuff I haven’t wanted to deal with. And that is turning around.

I’ve thought about using RTM, but am not sure the setup would be worth it. (And I tend to spend more time in the tracking than the doing.) No iPhone. No Blackberry. My phone won’t sync crap. (Which is bad since it has a built-in contact list and calendar.) I’ll have to take a look at iGoogle again–it’s been a while.

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In the original post, I had typed up a post script relating to the 9 (typed) page post script I was going to tackle next. But that just got a little bit depressing, so I cut it out.

My ToDo list (which actually is a combination of Next Actions, Project, Someday/Maybe and other assorted lists) is a simple text file that I keep on my desktop. I currently just email myself ToDo’s and paste them in the list in the evening. To keep track of them during the day, I print them out, 4-up double sided, fold the paper three times, and stick it in the 3×5 black book I carry with my wallet.

And I don’t actually leave all emails with ToDo’s in the Inbox:
* If it is a receipt, then I put it into the “@Waiting” folder until the package actually arrives.
* If it is an action for a project I am working on (and I have dedicated folder on my computer for it), I’ll drag the message out and start the file name with “ToDo - “.
* Actions which are just listed in an email are pasted into a ToDo list.
* Ideas for web log posts are pasted in as drafts.

In theory, the only things remaining will be where the ToDo is based on the email, and not just the information it contains (e.g. Reply to this email). In practice, it’s been a repository for stuff I haven’t wanted to deal with. And that is turning around.

I’ve thought about using RTM, but am not sure the setup would be worth it. (And I tend to spend more time in the tracking than the doing.) No iPhone. No Blackberry. My phone won’t sync crap. (Which is bad since it has a built-in contact list and calendar.) I’ll have to take a look at iGoogle again–it’s been a while.

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Whatever…

Be safe down there man.

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Whatever…

Be safe down there man.

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Considering the email I got came to an address that I never used anywhere, I would expect all data submitted to be used for nefarious purposes.

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