A Macintosh for me?

One of my friends who works for a school board has offered to send me their used Macintosh computers. Of course I accepted; I've always wanted to have my own Mac.

The problem is shipping. Apparently these are the older Power Macintosh clamshells, so they are hefty. They're also a tad old (300MHz for the best), but I don't really care; an old Mac is better than no Mac.

Plus, I can finally try out Mac-native Photoshop :D

Finally, the camera is to be repaired.

It's been a long time coming, but I finally was able to call Canon Customer Service, and spoke with a friendly David, who gave me a service call / RMA # for my digital camera. It will be nice to be able to take pictures again.

I'm also still enjoying reading the UNIX book. It's quite amazing what I've been missing; I'm really glad I decided to purchase it.

Ah, a relief.

First off, I'm reading a book entitled "UNIX: A Visual QuickStart Guide". It's a little noobish in tone, but even I am learning things out of it. I'm quite enjoying becoming even more powerful with the CLI. I had no idea how powerful awk was. You learn something new every day.

Meanwhile, the relief comes in the fact that I washed my car. Not really admin-related, but it needed to be done, and man, it's nice to see my car shine again. :)

Debian breaks in mysterious ways.

/me blows dust clumps off the blog.

Sorry for such a delay in making a new post. I've been terribly busy, but thankfully the computer systems are running fine...

Except for one of my friend's MacBook. He wanted to install Debian on it so that he could have a Linux machine, but apparently Debian doesn't like his machine; more specifically, his network controller.

The problem isn't that Debian doesn't work. He'd like to uninstall. Only now he can't seem to get Mac OS X back on. Bah.