Screaming Penguin

I have to play the curmudgeon once in a while, it's just my style ;). This time it's pertaining to the Ars MacWorld Best of Show list.

In a word, lame.

I'm not there, I haven't seen these apps in person, I don't know what I am talking about, granted - but still Filemaker?, WebEx on an iPhone? and a file server from HP are among the top 10?

It seems interesting to me that the JDK 1.6 is 64 bit only. Nothing else in the Leopard install on my Air is 64-bit. Indeed, the only other 64 bit app I have is MySQL. Seriously, WTF?

Found this via MacRumors. IBM appears to be looking into furthering themselves away from windows. Though I believe they do quite a bit of work with linux and unix, this appears to have a larger impact on there day to day use. They still would have quite a bit to flush out like creating a supported version of UDB and Websphere for OSX. A few other things are mentioned in the article. Not surprised that "19 of 22 (86%) Users Ask to Keep the Mac."

Check out the rest HERE.

So I had my first big failure with the Air this week. A couple of days ago, I tried to connect to the file server at the hizzy and got a kernel panic. Honestly, the issues I have had with network drives and Leopard *cough*crap*cough* this seemed like par for the course. I hard powered it and waited, login and PANIC!. Fuck. Next I hard powered it and right after POST, it just shut back down. This went into a complete loop and it was bricked for a few days.

Noticed this on Apple's Store. From $500 to $700 off the original price for what is still great machine. You have to get this through the educational site and Clearance items.