Rather uneventful day, though I’m guessing that Microsoft pushed an update that broke a lot of smartcard applications.
News is rather slow, but I heard one of my various podcasts read this today.
Shit.
I kinda feel the same way, and the things about being in a big city are really gone. Who knows when they’ll come back.
Can I hold out long enough to let me get settled there? I really don’t know.
And after I do get settled, can I live peacefully? I’m not worried about the mob violencemostly-peaceful protests, but the agents of the state, itself. Would whatever I rig up for protection be protection against low-level criminals, or would be against agents of government?
Montgomery County, Maryland Democratic Republic (MDDR) got rid of no-knock warrants in drug cases. Plus, like, Marijuana has been decriminalized, anyway, so it’s not an issue. But they’re still fine for things other than drugs, so Duncan Lemp still happens.
I think it was TFC who were discussing recently that the “War On Drugs” is being replaced with a War on Guns.
But you don’t use drugs, or own guns!
I know, but that’s not the point.
They’ll still enforce it against the people who are least-able to take on corrupt government.
I have no idea what other site I was using when I wrote this. I transposed it to OD, but don’t have the site’s name anywhere.
Lessons?
- Be rich
- Put up whatever signs you think will dissuade looters
- Vote Democrat!
Maybe it’ll work. But I can’t do any of those, easily. I’m working on the first, but it’s a whole-hog approach.
We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it…..
Flashback:
OJ #6 – 8/17/2002
Saturday, August 17th, 2002 2:55 am
I used to be 1337, now I’m just 14m3
So, yeah, I bought a Mac. B+W G3. Got it in Thursday afternoon. It’s been a bit of a chore to get everything up and running, but I think I’m finally getting there.
The machine I bought didn’t have an OS installed. No problem, because I wanted to run OS9 and OSX, anyway. I figured I’d grab a copy of OS9, and wait for OSX 10.2 to come out next week. First of all, I couldn’t find a copy of OS9. Nobody is selling it. I only found one copy on Pricegrabber, but it was like 85 bucks, and didn’t seem to be from a reputible dealer. So I went down to CompUSA and asked whether I’d still get the $29 upgrade to 10.2 if I went ahead and bought a copy of OSX 10.1. They said that’s the deal, so I decided to go ahead and buy it. When I opened the box, guess what was inside? A copy of OS9. Turns out OSX actually runs a copy of OS9 inside a virtual machine in order to run legacy apps……sorta like what OS/2 used to do with Windoze 3.1.
Anyway, to get “Classic” mode to work properly, you’ve gotta have a working OS9 install. But OS 9.2.1 refused to install on my machine. I needed a firmware upgrade. Okay, so I’ll just do that from inside OSX, because that installs fine. No dice. The installer only runs in the old OS. Shit. Long story short, an older version of OS9 I found at work allowed me to run the update, then install 9.2.1, which is what I’m running now. I always dug it anyway.
OSX is sweet in its own kind of way. Right now I’m basking in the nostalgia of old skool mac, yo. It’s been a long time away, and I feel like a tool for not getting one of these sooner.
In conclusion……see the subject.
Current Mood: nostalgic
I gave that Mac away after lending it several times. OS X 10.1 was fun in that if Finder crashed, you couldn’t do anything with the machine at all. Unless you turned on ssh access. Then you could ssh to it, and reboot it.
With my opening topic in mind, I can only imagine if computers were regulated like the rest of the economy. There’d be a regulation that says I have to be able to run 68K Carbon binaries on my new Macbook Air.
Yeah. Good luck with that.