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Well, it's been a while since I blogged properly, but life has been incredibly busy and complicated these last few months. On the personal side, I've restarted uni doing some archaeology courses, had my parents visiting from NZ for 6 weeks, worked some silly hours, done some travelling around Europe and the UK, and utterly failed to find somewhere permanent to live. On the hacking side, I've had 2 laptops die on me, my web host lock me out, a dead slow net connection, and just a general lack of time to do the stuff I want.
However, there's finally some light at the end of the tunnel time wise, I've fixed my website, and I've splashed out to buy myself a new laptop. My 5-year old Dell had reached the stage where anything slightly taxing like surfing the net or reading e-mails would send the fan into overdrive, compiling a 1-line change to kdelibs would take 5 hours, one of the memory modules died completely, and the case cracks were threatening to separate the screen from the body. It's taken a while to find a replacement that met my requirements during which I made do first with an eee 701, then when it died with an eee 901, but finally after evaluating the new Sony Vaio Z, I settled on the brand-new Aluminium Macbook.
I've had the Mac for a few weeks now, and while it is a beautiful piece of kit, there are some annoying features.
Pros:
* Aluminium body feels wonderfully solid and unlikely to break
* Backlit keyboard
* Huge touchpad
* Mag power cord
* Faaaasssttttt :-)
Cons:
* No manual CD eject button
* No Insert/Delete/Page Up/Page Down/Print Screen/Hash keys, and a tiny enter key
* The screen is way too glossy and has narrow viewing angles
* USB ports too close together
* Lack of expansion slots
Right now, I've just finished upgrading to a 500Gb HDD on which I am installing the ultimate Hackintosh system, triple-booting OS X, Windows XP, and OpenSuse 11.1 beta 5. I plan to compile KDE trunk in all three installs as I get time, so if there's something you want tested cross-platform I may be able to oblige.
I've a backlog of subjects I want to blog about, so I'll be boring you on a regular basis over the next few days :-)
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Boring?
"I've a backlog of subjects I want to blog about, so I'll be boring you on a regular basis over the next few days :-)"
If any of these subjects happens to concern Printing, I'm sure they will be plenty of interested listeners :) Even if not, I'm sure it will be cool anyway :)
About the keys.
Hey, my last generation white macbook with kubuntu I can get some home/end/page up/down action by using FN+arrow keys. I imaging that it'll surely work in SuSE as well.
Thanks
Thanks
Apple things
* No manual CD eject button - Top row all the way to the left, the triangle with the line under it is the manual eject button.
* No Insert/Delete/Page Up/Page Down/Print Screen/Hash keys
Insert - [Fn]+something :=)
Delete - [Fn]+[Delete]
Page up - [Fn]+[Up arrow]
Page Down - [Fn]+[Down arrow]
Hash keys - waaah?
Come join us in #kde-mac for a rip-roarin' good time. also try the BaseSystem package from mac.kde.org to get the kde prerequisites for compilation. ATM it's missing antigraingeometry and libart_lgpl2, but those'll be added eventually. :-D
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