Archive for October, 2007

David hates Macs

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

“My boss just said we’re moving to Macs. I don’t know if he was serious, but it might really happen — he’s a bona-fide, born-again Mac zealot, after decades of using real computers (he even had his own, successful Windows-centric newsletter).
I joked that I’ll switch to a Mac after they pry the PC from my cold, stiff fingers. In reality, I’ll just go along with the program and lose about 30% in productivity.
I hate Macs.”

Nothing in this post by David Ramel that is new, but always fun to read. :-)

Garageband :(

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

I’m not sure whether it had something to do with the fact that I said a number of things that could be interpreted as negative toward Apple and iLife in todays episode of the EduKast (in Dutch) or that it was just bad luck, but after recording the last piece of audio Garageband decided that it wanted to crash.

I’ve been told that Macs are very stable, but today that wasn’t the case. And because I’ve hadn’t had these kind of problems using Adobe Audition yet (not even when the disc was full) I hadn’t though of saving while recording todays episode of the EduKast podcast.
Result: everything gone, 45 minutes of work lost.

Garageband Crash

I started over and re-recorded the episode, but it underlines the comment that I make in the podcast: “there is much less difference between a Mac and a PC then people would like you to believe”.