Kris Carlson's Weblog

Darwin-x86

I tried to install Darwin-x86 on my AOpen PIII machine today. The boot CD won't detect my Western Digital hard drive. I have 2 hard drives in the machine, and neither are detected. WD is a common hard drive. I guess Apple doesn't intend to have Darwin-x86 running on just any x86 computer. That's too bad. I think they could get a lot more mileage on the road to desktop dominance if they would build their OS to run on a wide variety of x86 based machines. They don't have to build all the drivers, the open source community will do that. Just get it out there. Besides, I'm tired of buying Apple products (made in China) and dealing with Applecare. I would rather build my own machine so I don't have to send my entire machine in for service. I don't like that. Apple has cool stuff, but they are not _that_ good.

Bye Bye Mighty Mouse

I finally got tired of the unwanted left clicks and switched back to the pro mouse. If I didn't completely have my index finger off the mouse I would get a left click when I wanted a right click. $50 bucks down the tubes. Since buying the MM and my PowerMac G4, I found some other interesting things associated with Apple that I find rather unpalatable. I know this much, in the future, I will not just jump-in because it's Apple and it's cool. As much as I like Mac OS X, I do not like some of Apple's business practices. I will write about my latest Applecare bad dream later. For now, the Mighty Mouse has been dismissed. I wonder how much it will fetch? At $50 I can't just shelve it.

Mac, apple, Computers and Internet, Kris Carlson

FEMA doing a "magnificent" job?

I DON'T THINK SO. Who do they think we are. Let the images speak for themselves. A couple of quotes from CNN this morning really got me upset.
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"Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday that he thinks the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal agencies have done a "magnificent job" under difficult circumstances, citing their "courage" and "ingenuity."

Insisting that aid is coming as fast as possible, Chertoff said, "You can't fly helicopters in a hurricane. You can't drive trucks in a hurricane."

FEMA Director Michael Brown told CNN on Friday, "My heart breaks. What we're doing, we're ramping up."
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Like I said, let the images speak for themselves. FEMA is clearly understaffed or mismanaged or both. And then there's Chertoff's comment: "You can't fly helicopters in a hurricane."

Hey Chertoff, the hurricane has passed! you idiot

FEMA director Michael Brown: "My heart breaks. What we're doing, we're ramping up."

"ramping up?" Just when did you come to this conclusion, Brown? What a MORON.

Have We Forgotten 9/11/2001?

How many of you remember the pouring out of money to the Red Cross when 9/11 came? A lot of money, and the Red Cross was going to withhold 3/4's of it for future needs and not give all the money that was donated for that disaster to the families of the victims of 9/11. How many of you remember how the Red Cross behaved during 9/11. And where are the accounting records to prove they acted appropriately?

Now they ask for money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Like I saw a man tonight say as he held up his baby for the camera, "we have no formula for the baby, no water, where is FEMA, where is the mayor?"

What the hell do we pay taxes for? So the federal government can forgive the debt of other countries?

FEMA, get your sorry a$$e$ down there.

Elixir on Les Paul

Before you start reading, if you don't see 2 Amazon links, one to a set of Elixir guitar strings and one to a Steve Morse DVD, then reload this page. I guess I have to learn more about how to make those links work the way I would like them to. On to the post... I just put some new strings on my Gibson Les Paul Special. I got a Thank You in the mail from Guitar Center for a free set of strings with a $15.00 or more purchase. So I bought a Steve Morse DVD, and let Don in Flint pick out a set of strings for me. I told him I had a Gibson Les Paul and he picked out Elixir Nanoweb's for it. The DVD was good but too short and no music or tabs. After I watched the DVD I changed the strings on my Les Paul and tuned it up. New strings always sound nice. Conequently, I really can't tell yet if I like these strings enough to use them again. It's the first new set since I bought the guitar. I liked the strings that came on it. I'll have to find out what they were. Also, I got a chance to oil the neck. I used lemon oil after reading that Paul Reed Smith recomends lemon oil. I used it sparingly, but not too sparingly, just enough to freshen up the wood and make it look nice. And it sure does. The neck looks, and feels, so much better with a cleaning and a coat of oil. Rock On!