I’ve been using a 13 inch macintel macbook for a while now, and while it’s a very nice little machine (her name is Tomoyo, btw, and yes it’s one of the black ones) there is one problem with her – she really don’t run non-universal programs very well (for those of you who aren’t mac-heads, the switch to intel based chips in the new macs means that in order to run optimally, programs need to be revised and made ‘universal‘ to run well in the Macintel environment) Yes, they run, but once you start a non-universal program on your system, there is a very, very noticeable ‘hang’ that happens quite often when you are using various programs.
Lucilly, most of what i use (BBedit, Omni Outliner, Mail, FireFox, etc) have long been converted. Other programs like Photoshop, Excel, etc, have yet to be converted. Photoshop makes the machine incredibly sluggish (especially when switching between programs) but Excel runs ok and doesn’t seem to cause the same hang problems. I don’t use Photoshop much on my laptop, so its not a huge deal. There is one program i do use a lot and it seems to make things as sluggish as photoshop: Ecto, my favortiest blogging software ever.
I know that Aadrian is working on it, and i am looking forward to the completely re-vamped version, but I’ve come to the point that i am going to have to use something else until the universal version is done. After beating my head on the table (and getting some help from Hawk this morning) i was able to get MarsEdit up and running (in fact, this is kind of a test post to make sure that it doesn’t blow up my site). It’s definitely not as nice as ecto, but it will do the job until the Ecto team finishes up that universal version. Please hurry guys, i miss Ecto already 
Posted by fredrin on August 31st, 2006 :: Filed under
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As part of our putzing around looking into some of the outdoor activities around here, Sarah and i went Kayaking yesterday – no, not the kind that involves going down river rapids and stuff (there isn’t much of that around here) just some paddling on the Huron river between a few dams with some rented Kayaks. I’ve done my share of Canoeing and other forms of boating (i was into sailboarding back when i was a kid) but never really sat in a Kayak before, so it was kinda fun. I suppose i’m suffering from wanderlust pretty bad these days, so much so that i’m even looking at the water as a means to go places.
Going to have to get real dirty some time this week when i sit down to degrease and clean up my old Trek 930 singletrack. Picked up a can of degreaser and lube (at the bike shop, of course) to see what can be done un grime the thing. 10 years of little use leaves quite a mucky mess.
Odd as this may sound, i’ve produced more sketches in the past few weeks than i have in a two week period in a long time. Most of them are related to the development of a new project Sarah and I are working on, so i won’t be posting any of them yet, but I guess it is a sign that fresh air, oddly enough, makes the creative mule wander a bit.
Anyways, feeling rather thoughtful today. That can be detrimental to the comic sometimes, but it shouldn’t be today. Rainy and crappy here today. Listening to Sundummy – some amazingly good ambient drone stuff – most of their catalogue is available for download (yes, legally, duh). Be sure to check out “Spanish Moss” (on “Mighty Voids Collide” and Approaching Storm. (you used to be able to download the full version of Spanish Moss, which had this trippy spooky voice over at the start of the track, but the disk version is still good.) Anyways, very much worth checking out.
pirotunes: Approaching Storm from the album “Mighty Voids Collide [tzpdc 19]” by SunDummy
Posted by fredrin on August 27th, 2006 :: Filed under
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