The Place to Be!

I was watching the season finale of Numb3rs last Friday and Charlie and gang were trying to save Amita who had been kidnapped by Baltar from Battlestar Galactica who was…well, you probably should just watch it. Anyway, one of those typical scenes popped up where a bunch of impressive looking computer stuff was supposed to be on the screen, usually a bunch of BS. Not on Numb3rs, baby! Uh uh, they don’t roll like that. They were straight up busting out Obj-C code! I mean, they could’ve done C, C++, C#…some fake ass language, but they had to do how they do and make us Mac fans proud. Just look at those beautiful brackets and pointers and NSArrays. Just goes to show you, when somebody’s life is on the line the FBI and brilliant mathematicians know what to use. Obj-C saves lives.

-D

So, my big thing for the past few months has been the Hackintosh. Been having a blast with it and steadily moving towards it being my main day-to-day system. Having said that, the dual 2Ghz G5 has been my main system for 5 years and, despite not getting a lot of face time lately, it remains the primary repository for all of my docs, music, movies, contacts, photos etc. I still sync my iPhone on the G5 every morning, I still set up calendar events there and sync them with google…basically, yeah, I use the Hackintosh most of the time now, but the G5 is still the vault for Digital Dbot. So, it kinda sucked bawlz when Mrs. Dbot told me she heard some clicking noises from the office and
thought something was wrong with the G5. I checked it out and sure enough the main drive had gone belly up on me. Years of photos, music purchases, family holiday videos etc were on that drive which now only would be useful as a loud clacking metronome. (continue reading…)