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Eric: Checking in from the road!
I'm typing this at an Apple Store in Salem, New Hampshire (not so much Witches as Goths with perky attitudes), picking up a copy of Tiger for the school I work at. From here, I'm heading to a hot spot to get some coffee and get my brain on, before heading home.
The lineup was an hour long to get in. An hour long.
For an operating system.
Seriously.
Oh, and they don't have a USB microphone in this store. On the other hand, the employees are cheerful and highly knowledgable. I asked one of them where the nearest hotspot was (other than here, of course). He grinned, ran me over to a nearby computer, and downloaded a Dashboard widget that ID'd the nearest hotspots.
I have to admit, it'd be fun to be a geek on demand at a place like this.
Right. Heading out. Until later, all.
(P.S. I have Milholland and Garrity art you do not. You may envy me at any time. I'll burble excitedly about both later today.)
Posted by Eric Burns-White at April 29, 2005 7:22 PM
Comments
Comment from: Arachnid posted at April 29, 2005 8:18 PM
Tiger is seriously cool. Apart from dashboard and spotlight, you simply _have_ to play with Quartz Composer. Even if you're not a programmer, how cool is it to be able to construct visual apps of a sort by connecting little boxes together like a flow-chart?
Comment from: Foolsfolly posted at April 29, 2005 8:24 PM
Not be picky about something that's not the topic of the post, but the whole witch thing was in Salem, Massachusets, not New Hampshire.
Comment from: Wednesday posted at April 29, 2005 8:27 PM
Dude, you mean they didn't, like, teleport it to you with teleportation technology (because you can't possibly be telling me there isn't a teleportation widget shipping with Tiger)? Or at least Fedex the thing to you last night from Amazon or something?
That's it. I'm coming over there. Something's broken and I have to fix it.
Comment from: Doug posted at April 29, 2005 8:59 PM
So that earlier snark about how new hardware's siren song no longer lures you to the expenditure of large amounts of cash on Neat Stuff was just a ruse, hmm? A clever diversion, a facile "No, I've gotten too old to get my serious geek on anymore. The thrill is gone. Nope. I'm too practical nowadays. Me and my trusty ol' computery thing will just sit back here on the porch and watch all that newfangled stuff parade by, thanks," while beneath that air of feigned indifference and cool ennui you were cagily waiting until the IT department's budget tolled "NEAT NEW SOFTWARE THAT RUNS ON YOUR LAPTOP, AND WE PAY FOR IT!"
"No, you're wrong. It's for the school... Really!" Right. Uh-huh.
The geek within will come out eventually. It might not find its way into the light through hardware, but it will find its way out.
As for my geek, it's all worried as I can't get a straight authoritive answer from Apple as to whether the thing will officially support the Classic environment. It's jonesing, it's jonesing bad!
Comment from: Arachnid posted at April 29, 2005 9:21 PM
Incidentally: iBook, now kitten friendly! (Also note Girl Genius collections in the background. It's all Eric's fault.)
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at April 29, 2005 9:23 PM
Doug--
The one thing I've learned is, neat as Tiger seems to be, I'm not sure waiting in a line for an hour for it was a productive use of time. ;)
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at April 29, 2005 9:24 PM
Doug--
The one thing I've learned is, neat as Tiger seems to be, I'm not sure waiting in a line for an hour for it was a productive use of time. ;)
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at April 29, 2005 9:28 PM
Not be picky about something that's not the topic of the post, but the whole witch thing was in Salem, Massachusets, not New Hampshire.
Er... yes... that was sort of the point of the joke...
Comment from: sinless posted at April 29, 2005 10:11 PM
Soon, soon there will be a pilgrimage to the Apple store for me and mine. We shall have the tiger. Yes, yes we will . . .
Comment from: Doug posted at April 29, 2005 10:17 PM
Since it seems your posting burped and gave me two for the price of one, I don't feel too guilty about double posting; much as I prefer not to. However...
Who but the true geek would wait in line for an hour for Neat Software?
I rest my case.
Comment from: kirabug posted at April 30, 2005 12:06 AM
Glad to see the King of Prussia store wasn't the only one with an hour-long line! Though since 6:00 I've spent most of the evening cleaning the house trying to find the install CDs for Dreamweaver and Office and the like.
I cannot wait to get my hands on Automator. I shall become the queen of batch file renaming.
Comment from: Ray Radlein posted at April 30, 2005 12:54 AM
Incidentally: iBook, now kitten friendly!
My goodness. She looks just like our Calliope did at that age. Wow. I'll have to show those to Angie.
Comment from: Aerin posted at April 30, 2005 4:59 PM
One of the perks of working in the IT department of an expensive college: there is a copy of Tiger sitting in my drawer that I didn't have to pay for. Site licenses rock my world.
Comment from: Mush posted at May 2, 2005 9:31 PM
It's not even a whole new operating system, it's basically a service pack. Oh, clever Apple, getting customers to BUY SPs! (I love them. They're so smart.)
Comment from: fun size nick posted at May 3, 2005 8:31 AM
Actually, I'm told it's quite different under the bonnet, and runs much more efficiently than the previous version (which conforms to precedent). I haven't used it yet, however.
I, for one, didn't wait in line for my copy - I received it in the mail on monday, as the school that I work at bought maintenance with every licence of 10.3 - which means we get sent every OS upgrade for 3 years. Pretty nice I think.
It seems like there's quite a few of us who do tech support in schools here!
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