Ramblings, rumblings, and mumblings...

So, Jon Stewart was awesome again. He shows a clip of Dubya talking about how he wants to spend some time getting insight on how state and local govts. interact in response to Rita. I immediately point out that Dubya was the fucking governor of TEXAS for six YEARS. If he didn't get any insight into how the state he was supposedly running worked in that time, it's a little late now. Jon Stewart then followed my lead and pointed out that Bush was in fact governor of Texas prior to his stint as Fuckup in Cheif. He left out the six years bit, which just shows that while Jon is awesome, I'm awesomererererer.

I took two classes last night. My legs are fucking sore. I think I might do it again tonight. The strattera was fucking with me far more than I realized. After one class before, I was ready to pass out. Since I've stopped taking it I'm still tired afterward (class is work, there's no getting around it; if it was easy, we'd all be handed Black belts at birth), but I don't feel like I'm going to physically collapse. Hell, I can even push myself through a second class and still just be tired at the end.

On to things Mac. I didn't buy a book yet, but I can see it's inevitable. Apparently, I'm too stupid to do something as simple as create a data DVD. I downloaded Xcode 2.1 (Apple make all their dev. tools available for the cost of however long it takes you to grab them off their web site), but it won't install on anything less than 10.4. That's fine, it's been ordered. I expect it this week. I need to burn the image onto a DVD-R though. I fired up iDVD, thinking, hey, Apple ship a piece of DVD creation software with the machine. If I wanted to make video discs, apparently, I'm set. Too bad I'm trying to burn data onto a disk.

I can see now, I'm going to have to copy this into my home directory over NFS, which I can then copy to my laptop via Samba, and then if my laptop had a DVD writer, instead of just the DVD-ROM/CD-RW I must have forgotten to upgrade when I ordered it, I could just drag and drop the file onto the optical drive in Explorer. Finder can't be bothered to acknowlege the existance of an optical drive that doesn't already have filesystem on it, and Apple apparently don't believe that anyone would ever want to do anything as mundane as archive data to optical media. Fuck, why bother to ship a DVD writer? How many people actually use them for video? I mean, I do at home, but only very rarely. 95% of what I burn to DVD is data I want to archive.

EDIT: Apparently, you can do this out of the box, it's just not obvious or intuitive. When you insert the blank, it wants to open iDVD. You have to override this and tell it to use Finder instead, then, AND ONLY THEN, will it show the blank DVD in finder as an object you can drag and drop files onto. Fucking brain-dead is what that is. Supposedly, in 10.4 this is fixed. We'll see.

Ramblings, rumblings, and mumblings...

So, Jon Stewart was awesome again. He shows a clip of Dubya talking about how he wants to spend some time getting insight on how state and local govts. interact in response to Rita. I immediately point out that Dubya was the fucking governor of TEXAS for six YEARS. If he didn't get any insight into how the state he was supposedly running worked in that time, it's a little late now. Jon Stewart then followed my lead and pointed out that Bush was in fact governor of Texas prior to his stint as Fuckup in Cheif. He left out the six years bit, which just shows that while Jon is awesome, I'm awesomererererer.

I took two classes last night. My legs are fucking sore. I think I might do it again tonight. The strattera was fucking with me far more than I realized. After one class before, I was ready to pass out. Since I've stopped taking it I'm still tired afterward (class is work, there's no getting around it; if it was easy, we'd all be handed Black belts at birth), but I don't feel like I'm going to physically collapse. Hell, I can even push myself through a second class and still just be tired at the end.

On to things Mac. I didn't buy a book yet, but I can see it's inevitable. Apparently, I'm too stupid to do something as simple as create a data DVD. I downloaded Xcode 2.1 (Apple make all their dev. tools available for the cost of however long it takes you to grab them off their web site), but it won't install on anything less than 10.4. That's fine, it's been ordered. I expect it this week. I need to burn the image onto a DVD-R though. I fired up iDVD, thinking, hey, Apple ship a piece of DVD creation software with the machine. If I wanted to make video discs, apparently, I'm set. Too bad I'm trying to burn data onto a disk.

I can see now, I'm going to have to copy this into my home directory over NFS, which I can then copy to my laptop via Samba, and then if my laptop had a DVD writer, instead of just the DVD-ROM/CD-RW I must have forgotten to upgrade when I ordered it, I could just drag and drop the file onto the optical drive in Explorer. Finder can't be bothered to acknowlege the existance of an optical drive that doesn't already have filesystem on it, and Apple apparently don't believe that anyone would ever want to do anything as mundane as archive data to optical media. Fuck, why bother to ship a DVD writer? How many people actually use them for video? I mean, I do at home, but only very rarely. 95% of what I burn to DVD is data I want to archive.

EDIT: Apparently, you can do this out of the box, it's just not obvious or intuitive. When you insert the blank, it wants to open iDVD. You have to override this and tell it to use Finder instead, then, AND ONLY THEN, will it show the blank DVD in finder as an object you can drag and drop files onto. Fucking brain-dead is what that is. Supposedly, in 10.4 this is fixed. We'll see.

Ramblings, rumblings, and mumblings...

So, Jon Stewart was awesome again. He shows a clip of Dubya talking about how he wants to spend some time getting insight on how state and local govts. interact in response to Rita. I immediately point out that Dubya was the fucking governor of TEXAS for six YEARS. If he didn't get any insight into how the state he was supposedly running worked in that time, it's a little late now. Jon Stewart then followed my lead and pointed out that Bush was in fact governor of Texas prior to his stint as Fuckup in Cheif. He left out the six years bit, which just shows that while Jon is awesome, I'm awesomererererer.

I took two classes last night. My legs are fucking sore. I think I might do it again tonight. The strattera was fucking with me far more than I realized. After one class before, I was ready to pass out. Since I've stopped taking it I'm still tired afterward (class is work, there's no getting around it; if it was easy, we'd all be handed Black belts at birth), but I don't feel like I'm going to physically collapse. Hell, I can even push myself through a second class and still just be tired at the end.

On to things Mac. I didn't buy a book yet, but I can see it's inevitable. Apparently, I'm too stupid to do something as simple as create a data DVD. I downloaded Xcode 2.1 (Apple make all their dev. tools available for the cost of however long it takes you to grab them off their web site), but it won't install on anything less than 10.4. That's fine, it's been ordered. I expect it this week. I need to burn the image onto a DVD-R though. I fired up iDVD, thinking, hey, Apple ship a piece of DVD creation software with the machine. If I wanted to make video discs, apparently, I'm set. Too bad I'm trying to burn data onto a disk.

I can see now, I'm going to have to copy this into my home directory over NFS, which I can then copy to my laptop via Samba, and then if my laptop had a DVD writer, instead of just the DVD-ROM/CD-RW I must have forgotten to upgrade when I ordered it, I could just drag and drop the file onto the optical drive in Explorer. Finder can't be bothered to acknowlege the existance of an optical drive that doesn't already have filesystem on it, and Apple apparently don't believe that anyone would ever want to do anything as mundane as archive data to optical media. Fuck, why bother to ship a DVD writer? How many people actually use them for video? I mean, I do at home, but only very rarely. 95% of what I burn to DVD is data I want to archive.

EDIT: Apparently, you can do this out of the box, it's just not obvious or intuitive. When you insert the blank, it wants to open iDVD. You have to override this and tell it to use Finder instead, then, AND ONLY THEN, will it show the blank DVD in finder as an object you can drag and drop files onto. Fucking brain-dead is what that is. Supposedly, in 10.4 this is fixed. We'll see.