Mary Kay - Eeeee!

01:06 pm: Eeeee!
Well, my computer died Wednesday afternoon. Jordin had been planning to get me a Mac Air for our anniversary so I got it a month early. Unfortunately, it was broken, so I'm still computerless. I'm posting this from the business center at the Marriott in Redmond, where I'm attending Foolscap. I hope to have a computer of my own RSN. More then.

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From:	slrose
Date:	September 27th, 2008 08:34 pm (UTC)

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I though from your heading you'd gotten an Eee. :-(

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From:	bellinghman
Date:	September 27th, 2008 08:36 pm (UTC)

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Me too.

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From:	autopope
Date:	September 27th, 2008 08:41 pm (UTC)

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And Meeeee!

(Eees may not be full-blown laptops but they're so convenient as a disposa-writer .... )

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From:	mjlayman
Date:	September 28th, 2008 01:51 am (UTC)

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Me too!

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From:	marykaykare
Date:	September 27th, 2008 11:58 pm (UTC)

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Heh. Nope, I'm an all Mac girl and while rumour has it you can load OS X on an Eee. It's not something I want to try.

MKK

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From:	autopope
Date:	September 28th, 2008 11:35 am (UTC)

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I'm posting this from the iMac, and I was just reading my email on the Airbook.

But ...

A few years ago I decided my data was more important to me than any one computer manufacturer.

So I came to a simple decision to standardize on apps that:

* Are open source
* Run on more than one platform (I don't use Windows but I won't use an app that doesn't have a Windows port or compatible clone)
* Use open standard file formats

The core apps I use are: OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird (mail -- it uses old mbox files, under the hood).

These come as standard with the Eee -- I can use rsync to synchronize an Eee and a Mac.

As it happens I no longer have an Eee, I have a somewhat nicer HP MiniNote 2133, running Ubuntu, but the same criteria apply: my core data is safe against platform lock-in.

(And this is one reason I'm really nervous about Apple's Mail.app. They keep changing the mail storage format in the back end, and until I find a Linux mail client that is happy reading and writing emlx mail archives I am not going to touch Mail.app with a barge-pole, any more than I'd use Microsoft Outhouse.)

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From:	marykaykare
Date:	September 28th, 2008 05:28 pm (UTC)

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I didn't know that about Apple's Mail app which I've just started using. Hmm. Perhaps I should change to Thunderbird, but you know, I'm not a person who obsessively saves each and every email she's ever received. I keep what's useful and dump the rest. Hmm. Things to think about.

MKK

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From:	antonia_tiger
Date:	September 27th, 2008 09:46 pm (UTC)

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And the low-end Eee models are currently on sale cheap in Dixons...

Yeah, lousy support from that bunch. For GBP 150, why worry?

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From:	orbolus
Date:	October 1st, 2008 09:32 pm (UTC)

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Well, my computer died Wednesday afternoon.
What was the cause of death, and is it really dead or some persistent vegetative state?

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