"Why I Hate Macs for Real" written by Paul on estrip.org

12/15/10 01:19 - 17.ºF - ID#53277

Why I Hate Macs for Real

After a 12 hour workday I came home to Terry's broken inaccurate with flashing system folder. When booting off an external mac in target disk mode the drive still doesn't show up even in diskutil, fdisk or parted.

Then to get the drive out and replace it requires special suction cups and crap. Just check out this how to

Look you need a suction cup for one of the steps. Seriously.

He is going to try and take it to the apple store and see how much it costs to fix out of warranty.

tinypliny writes at 12:51:49 12/16/10 - Comment #59792: My brother has has innumerable macs (by now, I have lost count..) and in one of our crazy we-are-so-bored moments we calculated how many of his macs had a failed harddrive or optical drive. Guess what the % was. Take a wild guess...

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86%. I am not even kidding. I can't believe people still keep on trusting macs. I don't want to be this nasty windoze freak but sometimes macsters are ridiculous in their fan worship..

PS: This does not mean I am calling you a fangirl (e:Oda). :-) Please do post a link to your website/CSA. I hope you have a distribution hub in the city so I can buy your produce!!! I am really excited for you. I actually remember my first year with my new computer back in the day. There was no one to take me through anything because my brother was away and my parents were just not interested. It was just awesome to be able to learn and do everything on my own. :)

paul writes at 11:29:03 12/15/10 - Comment #59790: Wow that is awesome oda. I never thought I would see a time when you were excited about a computer!

The situation with (e:Terry)'s imac got so ridiculous. He brought it to the apple store and the drive happend to load. They blamed the problem on a VPN client from when he was at UB. That was such bullshit. As soon as he brought it home and turned it on, the drive started clicking and stuff and finally died.

oda writes at 10:34:11 12/15/10 - Comment #59788: paul, i got a mac for a present this year.

you will be proud to know that i am actually learning how to use a computer. i have found the mac to incredible for someone like me, at a low computer-level knowledge, to be able to answer my own computer questions. this thing is so self-explanitory.

also, i am taking these one-to-one classes at the mac store in the galleria mall. soon, i will make the website for our farm/CSA.

it is exciting to start to explore this computer world.

uncutsaniflush writes at 06:14:30 12/15/10 - Comment #59766: I love how your spell-check or auto-complete turned "imac" into "inaccurate" The Apple Inaccurate it's not just a slogan, it's a way of life.

tinypliny writes at 05:44:36 12/15/10 - Comment #59754: Why do you hate Macs for fake then?

heidi writes at 02:03:24 12/15/10 - Comment #59748: Oh no!!!! Poor (e:terry) can't game :-(

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Category: work

12/15/10 01:15 - 17.ºF - ID#53276

Toys in a cage?

Last year the the toys were just on the dock. But this year they're locked behind the cage. I wonder if that means people were stealing.

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Category: google

12/13/10 06:51 - 11.ºF - ID#53263

Google Voice

Buffalo Medical Group is calling to confirm with Paul that you have an appointment with Dr. Herman my dog bro.

I'm guessing he doesn't really go by that.

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Category: holidays

12/13/10 10:22 - 13.ºF - ID#53258

Our wreath

Our wreath never got assembled. Its in pieces on the porch.

Whenever we buy a tree they ask to trim it. That pile of trimmings becomes wreathes they then sell for like $20-$30 each. Seems like a rip off when they are already charging you like $60-$70 for the tree.

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Category: computers

12/12/10 09:52 - ID#53254

Linux vs Mac

I tried to spend about 10 hours on a mac this weekend because I was thinking about trying to develop an estrip iphone app but I remember now why I switched back to linux. I just wish I could get a hardware accelerated mac virtual machine on my fedora box. Without the hardware acceleration I can't seem to get xcode to work or safari to run flash. I can't believe that's not possible yet. I makes me crazy.

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12/12/10 09:05 - 36.ºF - ID#53252

Paul Visco on Twitter

So I figured seeing as I joined facebook, I might as well also join twitter. Twitter always irritated me the most because I wanted to start something similar my second year into estrip and everyone told me it was stupid and no one would want to write about everything they were doing.

Same thing with my mobile restaurant review site from 2003-04. I guess I was just on mobile internet before it caught and then got totally consumed by my job at Roswell by 2005. If only times had been different or I had lived in a more online city. Not that I hate what I am doing or anything but I just feel it could have all been so different.

So the real point was that when I went to go sign up for twitter I chose the account name paulsidekick and it told me someone already had it. I was so pissed because I use that name for everything. Its like Tony's enknot for me.

So I went to go check it out and it was me after all. Apparently, I signed up in May of 2008 for twitter and just forgot about it. Either than or another paulsidekick was waiting for terry to get home with money.

The thing is I can't figure out how this ties into my much more interestingly described weekend on estrip (e:paul,44454) or any of the month of may where I don't mention twitter at all

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12/12/10 08:41 - 36.ºF - ID#53251

Facebook and Terrorists

I was reading about the swedish suicide bomber story

and they mentioned he had a link to a facebook group that had burning towers as their profile pic. So I looked them up and sure enough, it exists. Then I realized I must have still had facebook login cookie set which probably they have now profiled me as a terrorist. I hate facebook already.

Apparently, he had a swedish wife and left behind children. It seems so insane to me that anyone would care enough about anything not directly happening to them, to want to blow themselves up.

This guy doesn't fit the hollywood driven vision of what a terrorist should look like at all. I found it interesting that it also mentions he was seeking a second wife at muslima.com There is a site for everything now.

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Category: shopping

12/12/10 04:35 - 35.ºF - ID#53248

Mike at his happiest

He gets so excited about anything glitter based.

We spent the whole day christmas shopping for my parents at best buy. I hope they like their gift.

Then we went to pick out a tree for my mom at Adams. My father is done with real trees but my mom still wants one so my father asked me to get one for my mom. (e:mike) and I are really useless at making decisions like which tree is the best one to buy.

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12/12/10 12:14 - 33.ºF - ID#53241

Paul Visco Facebook

So I signed up for facebook. I played with it for a little bit. It did a good job of suggesting all the people who would be friends with me but then I felt overwhelmed with having to choose and interact with a lot of people who I am not very connected to. It reminded me of why I avoided myspace but it was worse because it has the potential for making you feel guilty about not being interested.

I found it ironic that my capture phrase was "reaming liberation."

At first I tried to integrate the "like" button with the blogs but it ruins it all if people started just "liking" and "commenting" on facebook instead of commenting on the blogs itself. Eventually, the facebook stuff would get out of sync or change format and the associated information would be forever lost. I can't seem to find one good integration point.

ajay writes at 12:18:44 12/12/10 - Comment #59664: The real reason why people join FB: :::link:::

I'm not sayin'.... I'm just sayin'....

tinypliny writes at 12:09:06 12/12/10 - Comment #59662: I see who you meant. Sameer aka the cool breeze aka Zephyr.

metalpeter writes at 12:04:01 12/12/10 - Comment #59661: Ok maybe I miss spelled it or thought you knew him I might be confussed (e:Heidi) knows him and uses like sam on here?

tinypliny writes at 12:00:04 12/12/10 - Comment #59660: Who is Samer?

metalpeter writes at 10:44:04 12/12/10 - Comment #59654: (e:tinypliny) Samer is on there........

I have my page linked to all kinds of things that maybe I shouldn't. If I had the time I would love to go to myspace and link it, and then just post from myspace

(e:paul) I just sent a friends request and as part of it I sent a bunch of suggestions now I'm not sure if they are all (e:peeps) But they all should have been at the party I some how don't think I saw tony though in the list but hey hope you enjoy it.....

tinypliny writes at 01:11:32 12/12/10 - Comment #59647: I get a minimum 2 unsolicited emails every month from ghosts from my past asking me to register on facebook. It makes me not want to go there. I don't want to speak with my past again.

tinypliny writes at 01:09:32 12/12/10 - Comment #59646: Citeulike - my citation website is trying a variety of integration strategies with facebook - but there is a lot of resistance among the users. :::link:::

I am not sure I understand why everything needs to be integrated with facebook.

paul writes at 01:07:22 12/12/10 - Comment #59645: Just don't leave estrip when you join. There wouldn't be much left without you ;)

tinypliny writes at 01:06:09 12/12/10 - Comment #59644: Maybe I should just join for the sole purpose of stalking my salsa teachers. I really have no other reason.

It is just awful that I miss the two of them and the dance class so much. It's like they are an addiction.

paul writes at 01:00:51 12/12/10 - Comment #59642: I doubt it is going to change my life very much. I just had to see how it all worked so I had a frame of reference when discussing it.

heidi writes at 12:55:43 12/12/10 - Comment #59641: booo. i liked that you were a holdout. :-)

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12/11/10 05:55 - 36.ºF - ID#53239

Robocalls restricted in NY

(e:libertad), you will be happy:

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) -- As of Saturday, December 11, "robo"-calls are subject to stronger regulations in New York State.

Under a new law which takes affect this weekend, New Yorkers who've signed up for the state's "Do Not Call" list should no longer receive automated-message telemarketing calls.

I am still torn on if this means I should get on that list or not. At first my mom said yes but then I heard it was some sort of scam to collect more phone numbers.