On 6/23/09, Mark Phillips wrote: > Well, my daughter prevailed and decided to take a 13" Mac to college instead > of the awesome 13" Linux notebook I was offering to her (Debian with Virtual > Windows for iTunes.....it would have been fantastic...). Her money, her > choice. Alas, Lisa, she decided not to go with the red case....it was my > first choice as well...;-) At least it's not: http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/opinions.jpg She knows a good advertising campaign when she sees it. Besides it's running on BSD-ish - fully patched, fairly right brain-proof'd OS X! Be sure you fully protect her: http://www.geckoandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/iworm_apple_mac_os_x_leopard_tiger_virus_torjan_anti_virus_download_free.jpg And resign yourself to watching the design quickly follow this: http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/imac.jpg > I guess every family sooner or later has a macsheep of the family pop up in > the gene line...... > > With the Mac we got a new shiny 8GB iTouch that we don't need. It is still > in the unopened highly un-green plastic box. If anyone is interested in > buying it, please let me know off list. > > Mark > > P.S. An amusing side note. We have a wired/wireless network at home. All of > our computers have a fixed IP address (many Linux, 1 Windows, now > a.........mac something). The wired router has DHCP enabled, but not the > wireless router. Anyway, she cannot connect the Mac wireless network, so we > called Apple. The agent on the line insisted that all networks have to have > DHCP enabled in order to work. In the Mac networking screen, it has as > options "DHCP" and "DHCP and manual", where you enter a fixed IP address > (but no netmask or other networking bits). The agent said until we enable > DHCP for the wireless network, we had a broken network, and should call back > anther time when we had fixed the network problem, and then hung up! My > first experience with Apple support.....not very satisfying. > -- (503)754-4452 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LisaKachold http://tinyurl.com/44zfgx http://www.obnosis.com/motivation/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss