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

[Stephen]

and rember, you cna put linux on that mac if it starts to be horrible :-)

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Lisa Kachold<lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> 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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Stephen