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21 ??? 0x00000ffc 0 + 4092

My thoughts exactly when something inexplicable happens.

what's hexadecimal for "suck my ball sack, Steve Jobs?"

Seems a bit better now that I'm sure not to have a disk in the drive... but still have the odd application crash. And Suitcase is still filling the console logs with nonsense.

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what's hexadecimal for "suck my ball sack, Steve Jobs?"

According to this online utility, it's:

%73%75%63%6B%20%6D%79%20%62%61%6C%6C%20%73%61%63%6B%2C%20%53%74%65%76%65%20%4A%6F%62%73%3F

In Apple Discussions that would be:

Wow. Works great. I've never had a problem with it.

Getting rid of the percent signs and listing the values next to their ascii equivalents makes it a bit easier to see.

73 - s
75 - u
63 - c
6B - k
20 - space
6D - m
79 - y
20 - space
62 - b
61 - a
6C - l
6C - l
20 - space
73 - s
61 - a
63 - c
6B - k
2C - ,
20 - space
53 - S
74 - t
65 - e
76 - v
65 - e
20 - space
4A - J
6F - o
62 - b
73 - s
3F - ?

%54%68%61%6C%6F%20%6D%61%79%20%62%65%20%66%75%6C%6C%20%6F%66%20%63%7
2%61%70%20%28%68%65%20%68%61%73%20%6E%6F%74%20%6D%61%67%69%63%20%4D%
61%63%29%2C%20%62%75%74%20%68%65%27%73%20%6D%61%64%65%20%6D%65%20%67
%75%6E%2D%73%68%79%20%61%62%6F%75%74%20%75%73%69%6E%67%20%4C%65%6F%7
4%61%72%64%20%61%73%20%6D%79%20%70%72%69%6D%61%72%79%20%4F%53%2E

%49%20%64%6F%6E%27%74%20%74%68%69%6E%6B%20%68%65%27%73%20%66%75%6C%6C%20%6F%66%20%63%72%61%70%2E
Thalo is having real problems. He seems to have isolated a major problem down to the DVD/CD drive or to the media he’s using in it. Updating the drive's firmware may fix that or maybe replacing the drive with one from another machine may do it. The other problems with Suitcase and other applications may or may not be related, but fixing one problem at a time is probably the thing to do.

My problem with Leopard is hardware. It works on my old G4, but my graphics card can't handle the changes in the Quartz layer Apple made to get the various preview stuff to work. As a result Leopard windows are jerky on my machine. Still useable, but jerky.

The other issue is that I don't see features in Leopard that I want. I used it for a few days then I downgraded to Tiger. The way I looked at it is there's is nothing in Leopard that I want or need so all I get really get are jerky windows. I don't want jerky windows. So, until and if I buy a more capable graphic card or computer I'm pretty well finished on this OS X ride at Tiger.

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%49%20%64%6F%6E%27%74%20%74%68%69%6E%6B%20%68%65%27%73%20%66%75%6C%6C%20%6F%66%20%63%72%61%70%2E

%54%68%65%20%69%74%27%73%20%67%6F%74%74%61%20%62%65%20%4C%65%6F%74%61%72%64%27%73%20%66%61%75%6C%74%2E

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The other issue is that I don't see features in Leopard that I want. I used it for a few days then I downgraded to Tiger. The way I looked at it is there's is nothing in Leopard that I want or need so all I get really get are jerky windows. I don't want jerky windows. So, until and if I buy a more capable graphic card or computer I'm pretty well finished on this OS X ride at Tiger.

Obviously the point of operating systems is to be able to run software. And if it's not running better, then why upgrade? Well, it depends on what you need to do. If I were a professional writer, I could be happy getting my job done in OS 8.6 with an early version of Word. And if I were a Photoshop jock, the same thing could be said...if not about OS 9 than about an earlier version of OS X. Photoshop 5.5 was a nice product. I know later version have more web integration, but that old workhorse probably does 95% of what a person needs. And a lot of earlier software was too young to avoid blotation. Software designers forget that (roughly speaking) a mere 10% or so of features are used 90% of the time, so those 10% have to be readily available and not lost in the clutter of blotation. (We all need to be wearing Ford-era buttons that say "W.B.N.")

If I were god of Apple I would start by making some of the existing features work better. Column View, while extremely valuable, is still unfinished. Visually (and functionally), large parts of OS X are a mess. A lot of things are very good too. This shouldn't be forgotten. The Spotlight search field in Finder windows is a wonderful implementation...not perfect, but a honest improvement over any other OS search mechanism that I've ever seen. And in Leotard they *did* (I think...I still need to play with it more) make an improvement to the Finder Sidebar. It was further refinement and not (at least in my opinion) junking it up with featuritis (a strain similar to blotation).

But on the other hand, brother thalo becomes a bit of a Christ-like figure. He suffers for all of us so that we don't have to upgrade. I see him hanging on the Dock right now.

Speaking of downgrading, the day before yesterday I had upgraded QuickTime on my Panther iBook to 7.4.something. And it broke some things. Had to downgrade. Apparently this is pretty common with that version of QuickTime with that version of the OS.

Wow, thanks for the wonderful screen shot of Calendar 2.2 with the sausage-free scroll bars, brother Yabor. I like it. Let me send you the beta version of Calendar 22. Just don't pass it around at this point, but it does work. Just delete my "test" entries if they annoy you.

Oh, I've got to find out a way to get those scroll bar resources and use them in the calendar. What a huge improvement. Nice job inserting those scroll bars as well.

Now NELSON is always with me, a source of pleasure and comfort. When the time comes, I want to be buried with NELSON by my side.

LOL. That's creepy enough to be funny. And I love the design of the package. And a leopard mug. Eyeroll. Eyeroll. Double eyeroll. Does that say "Original Shag"?

Yes, "shag" means cigarette tobacco in Dutch. (We pronounce it differently than you English-speakers; we say something like 'sjahch', if that makes sense.) It used to say "halfzware shag" on the packet. Now they've put the English word "original" before "shag". Maybe with an eye on the US market? "Original shag" would certainly be eye-catching. I can see the ads now: "Nelson, a good, nay, a GREAT shag." Nelson: simply the best shag I ever had."

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"Nelson: simply the best shag I ever had."

You have everything it takes to be a good headline writer. And even a bad one. Mike Myers would be a good spokesman for that brand.

I see a lovely girl in bed next to a man-sized packet of Nelson. The girl is panting--chest rising and falling--, her cheeks are covered with a red blush and her face is covered in sweat. The girl reaches below the sheets at crotch hight, her hand reappears with a bit of tobacco in it. She then rolls a cigarette, lights it, takes a long luxurious drag (chest rising) and exhaling sighs, "Nelson: simply the best shag I ever had."

In real life, KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines (now owned by the fucking French) a few years ago made an ad in English where they promised customers, quote, "a Dutch Treat" for dinner.

The Shag spokesmodel



Not that I find blond, full-bodied, voluptuous, well-endowed, drop-dead-gorgeous women to be appealing.

Doesn't she sort of look like Dances With Cylons on a good day?



I think this has certainly spiced up the discussion of Leotard.

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Oh, yeah. I took the first step. I got a copy of David Pogue's "Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual."

Inch by inch, millimeter by millimeter, getting closer.
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Inch by inch, millimeter by millimeter, getting closer.

The plot, um, thickens. Can’t wait for the climax.