OT: SOLVED: What Computer to Take to Coilege and Brand new iTouch for Sale

[Lisa Kachold]

On 6/23/09, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> 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.
>


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