I’ve been a Mac user since the late-eighties. Yet, today I bought my first PC (sort of). The Mac OS and Apple computers is still my platform of choice, but I am an all-around computer enthusiast. I don’t mess with M$ Windoze (an inferior product mixed with a corporation’s questionable business practices keep me far [...]
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Cox Blocked
I’m about to give up. I know that’s what they want me to do. Between MSC turning off POP and IMAP, their trying to ram WebCT/Vista down my throat, and now trouble with my Cox, my technological endeavors have been stymied as of late. Over the weekend, I brought my dead sever home from campus. [...]
MSC Email Issues
On July 22, 2009, Macon State College’s Office of Technology Resources CIO turned off secure POP3 and secure IMAP access to email. Apparently, some phishers obtained access to the system because some users replied to their emails with sensitive information. As a result, the maconstate.edu domain became blacklisted. The reaction was to make email inaccessible [...]
WCWJU
I’m thinking about starting a religion. Seriously. It seems that only narratives about belief and faith get anywhere in this country these days. Facts are irrelevant — too pedestrian. Loud opinion is king, and my don’t we have plenty of it to go around? Not only do we like opinions, but we seem to relish [...]
Mac in Action
Several weeks ago, my MacBook Pro’s monitor started acting up. I purchased my 15″ MBP in November of 2007, so it was about two months out-of-warranty when the monitor would inadvertently not come on during boot or flicker off during use. Finally, after I lived for a month with the display’s new capriciousness, it went [...]
Katrinko Must Die
In the preface to his 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines, Raymond Kurzweil suggests that the most important question that we will face this century is how we define the “human.”
New Music Site
Via Glen Phillips. Bandcamp is pretty dang kewl. It’s a music service that has music available in many forms, including Apple Lossless and FLAC, downloadable directly from the site. All tunes seem to be free of that DRM crapola, so the musicians here don’t think we’re criminals. What’s Bandcamp? From their FAQ: We’re a publishing [...]