Celebrity Deathmatch

[ehowton]

Putting the HOME back in Home Office, I finally cleaned out all the clutter, pulled everything out of the office, swung the rack around, replaced my wife's CRT with a 15.5" widescreen LCD, replaced her Mac Mini with the PowerMac G4 (seems 2GB of RAM when paired with dual-500MHz procs outperforms a single 1.42GHz proc when running only 256MB of RAM) and - horror of horrors - hung up some art! This new arrangement - utilizing the bay - has completely freed up my two good walls (those without doors, windows, or...architecture in the way. My office is in a turret.) The first time schpydurx walked into it, he was amazed at how small it was. Thought I'd actually taken the pictures in such a way to minimize its true cavernous nature. As if! Most people try odd angles and wide lenses to make room appear LARGER, not the other way around. And only because you people constantly beg me to upload more pictures of my desk, et al, here are two shots:

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And its upgrade time! My wife is finally at the point where she's ready for an iPod, and I want to start her off slowly, with an entry model. Simultaneously, I'm ready to push past the 240-song barrier. Ergo, I'll be purchasing myself a shiny new 2GB Shuffle and relinquishing my 1GB to her. Since her iTunes is set to use my shared library, I'll have to set her up a profile on my XP box (using iTunes with XP is a lot like using Windows and its horrific) and only because I want to be able to differentiate between the two at a glance...*sigh* I'll likely get one in a color. I'm sure going to miss my silver, nondescript iPod.



I have become emotionally attached to Redwoods. This disc has been my co-pilot every day in the car, caused me to seek out and purchase the movie Pleasantville (which I watched on repeat while I was bedridden) and listen to its score daily when I'm NOT in the car. Real Rain being my new favorite track, as the joy, rather than the gravity of what is taking place is experienced on Lover's Lane culminates into what is initially fear at previously nonexistent rain begins to fall from the sky and our protagonist publicly embraces to show its wonder as Newman leads into a thirty-second hint of Murals but with much more feeling. I don't know how much more of this I can take.

Its been near triple-digits here for a couple of weeks, but was in the mid-sixties when I left work this evening; refreshingly cool and invigorating! I drove home with my windows down, drinking in the medicinally cool weather. God, I love Texas.

Finally, would you please let me know which of these you think I should rid myself of? I mocked everyone last time because surely I'm capable of making my own decisions - but now that I'm full up, I beg of you, cull me: http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=ehowton

Comments

[zaitsman.livejournal.com]

Macs suck, pal.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Well reasoned. I'll have to give your words some thought. But as a career UNIX administrator, I'm likely going to end up disagreeing with your logic.

[zaitsman.livejournal.com]

They don't just suck. They're expensive for nothing. There's nothing that special in Macs that is not achievable on a PC.

My Ax List...

[photogoot.livejournal.com]

Can't we all just get along?


I mean your a man baby, lets act it!


WTF anyway?


Is this an out of work Porn Star? Lighten up on the mustache friend.


Harry Potter is so last year...


Either black or mirrored, there is just no room for red tinted sunglasses in a man's life. Yellow is only acceptable if you are at the shooting range. ;-)

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

In Corporate IT we spend billions on software that works exclusively on one type of hardware. Why? Stability. Not requiring your operating system to support a dizzying array of device drivers helps create a more stable, more effective operating environment. That "nothing" you speak of is a gilded market, sought by those who's goals aren't to have the fastest, least expensive box they can have. Service Level Agreements are a large part of any vendor's contract, as a production box which cannot perform during its allotted times can affect worldwide operations, making true cost sometimes difficult to articulate.

Macs are kind of like that.

Re: My Ax List...

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

I hate you.

I just realized you're probably the wrong person to ask any of these types of questions to. I mean, I'm surprised you knew that my avatar of Dumbledore had anything at all to do with Harry Potter.

This is why I forgive you. You know not what you do. You don't realize that you trampled on Simon of Firefly and Serenity fame, nor that I absolutely fell in love with Stardust which I've chosen to be represented here in Captain Shakespeare (I wonder if you even know the actor's name who played him)!

Perhaps this was a bad idea.

[zaitsman.livejournal.com]

With billions spent, one could easily customize desktop PC's OS enough so it would be as stable, also saving some for himself by doing that with the cheaper hardware.

[photogoot.livejournal.com]

Mac vs. PC cost analysis: How does it all add up?
Everybody knows PCs are cheaper than Macs, right? Wrong! (At least sometimes.)

There is some factual evidence you are mistaken on the cost/performance stereotype which held true for many years but has changed recently. Don't be hating on MAC just because you know they are sexy.

[zaitsman.livejournal.com]

But first, let me say to all those people who have ever bought a Packard Bell or eMachines PC and believe that great value in a computer means any model that sells for $600 or less: I agree -- Apple doesn't have an answer for you. In fact, I suggest that you skip this article entirely. You're not going to find anything of interest in it.
That's the quote. In fact, in most office and home environments, the $300 PC (just the main unit, no monitor/mouse/whatsoever) would be enough. Beat me with Mac?

Re: My Ax List...

[photogoot.livejournal.com]

You are correct that I am blissfully unaware of all these facts. Hell I have not even seen all the Harry Potter movies, much less read the books.

I am sorry to have trampled on some of your sacred cows. You ask though. :-) I would have otherwise kept my opinion to myself.

[zaitsman.livejournal.com]

Besides, most comparisons in the article are so much US specific, that I wouldn really wasted my time looking it thru if i knew that was the issue. Again a sample of a freaking lame titling by some authorz.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

We run Solaris. On SPARC. No one has yet come close to replacing that. Sun's new x86 boxes are nice, though - as they're now able to run four quad-core procs. Can't quite reach the 192 processors our E15k's have, but I think they're getting there. And with the sheer amount of I/O we're required to digest from the petebytes streaming in from the multiple SAN's we have to touch, I don't think Windows has enough inodes to even keep track of.

Remember, the fastest recorded hardware platform for Windows Vista is a MacBook Pro ;)

[photogoot.livejournal.com]

I am seldom a low end kind of consumer whether it be cars, stereos, or computers. This is because I expect more of my equipment, and myself for that matter, than the average turd walking into a Wal-Mart looking for a way to e-mail, access porn, and play The SIM's.

Having said this however I will concede your point. :-)

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

And that's a GREAT avatar.

[zaitsman.livejournal.com]

Truly.

Re: My Ax List...

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

And what, exactly, do you have against Aunt Jemima?

Re: My Ax List...

[photogoot.livejournal.com]

It was just fun to say "can't we all get along?" I saw the opportunity so I took it.

Re: My Ax List...

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

WTF anyway?
You're absolutely KILLING me! Its like you, I dunno - never read my blog or something.

*eyeroll*

Re: My Ax List...

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

So...the one of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr holding a Dreamsicle in his hand...that one can stay?

Re: My Ax List...

[photogoot.livejournal.com]

You know I pick and choose! Hell most of the time I just jump into the comment threads never having read the original post. There is such a rich world to explore below the post that sometimes I never surface to see the original piece at the surface. It's not all my fault though. Your blog is full of people who are off on tangents being very stream of conscious in their comments. It's a hell of a lot of fun.


I have been much better of late reading nearly everything.

Re: My Ax List...

[photogoot.livejournal.com]

It did not seem to mock me the way Ant Jamima did. My momma mocked me once.... Once.

[bsdcat.livejournal.com]

Kroenen - Hellboy is the better pic.
Challenger - how many portraits do you need?
Return of the King - Orlando Bloom? c'mon.
Transformers - please no.
Pilzner Urquell ("Bitburger"!?!?)
Frylock - you don't seem to use it.
Dumbledore - crummy picture.
UK - you don't use it.
German flag - ditto.
Eric Capitol - ya ain't there any more.
Skoal - ick, and bizarre.
Camera Front - stick with Camera Side.
Mr. Incredible - meh.
The Saint - meh.
Cobalt - bleh.

Re: My Ax List...

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

The picture of my desk looks rendered. I'm getting an iPod tomorrow which doubles my current capacity. That's exciting news.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, very valid. All of them. And thank you for the feedback on Kroenen. I'd made a handful of them (http://www.wilddamntexan.com/kids/kroenen/AVA/) and without the gentle guidance of melancthe I wouldn't have ended up with the Hellboy one.

Re: My Ax List...

[photogoot.livejournal.com]

The picture of my desk looks rendered.
Only in that it almost looks too sexy to be real!

I'm getting an iPod tomorrow which doubles my current capacity. That's exciting news.
This is but another interim step for sure. I know that in my lifetime I will see you implant your entire iTunes database on a capsule sized chip into your arm so that any audio device you stand within proximity of can play the entirety of your holdings.