Archive for the 'Computing' Category
Leopard Roars with Java 6
Apple released Java SE6 for Leopard today. This is a much anticipated release among Java developers using Macs. Go get it from the usual place in the Apple menu. It looks like it also installed the 64-bit Java 5 runtime, because I don’t remember seeing it before in the Java Preferences app. I know that [...]
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Apple and DRM
Apple exposes how truly evil DRM is with its new iTunes Ringtones feature for the iPhone. I have a CD of music I like. I paid for it. I want to excerpt a tune from it to use as a ringtone on my iPhone. Now I have to use iTunes to buy the tune again [...]
Filed under: Computing, Music | 3 Comments
Apple Calculator Doesn’t Add Up
Here’s a tape from my Apple Calculator.
29.99 + 62.99 + 42.02 = 140
WTF?
Filed under: Computing | 5 Comments
Part of my recent switch from Windows XP to Mac OS was to get my 12 years of Quicken data moved over. No big deal, I thought. I did that 10 years ago when I switched from Mac OS 9 to Windows 2000.
Yeah, right! I exported my Windows Quicken data as QIF data, and spent [...]
Filed under: Computing | 11 Comments
Windows Update
Consider this scenario involving a geometric sequence. You need to cover the distance from a start to an end. For each leg of the trip you can go exactly half the remaining distance to your destination, no more no less. At first you get halfway there, then 3/4, then 7/8, then 15/16, and so on. [...]
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