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Failed Business Model Tee :: Creative Commies :: Giant Robot Printing Store:
a red shirt with the text “your failed business model is not my problem…” printed above the Creative Commies logo. Because, seriously, it’s about time they got a new one.
I just ordered mine.
Every Dog Has His Day from the album “Every Dog Has His Day” by Let’s Active
The need for a combined anniversary gift (12 years today) and Mother’s Day gift found me at the Apple Store yesterday: I got the size right but not the color. Silver wasn’t on, and a tie between blue and green was resolved in person.
Pretty neat little things. Sadly, the lack of a Firewire cable and the fact that is connected to a 2000 model iMac DV (with 12 Mbit/s USB 1) makes things a little less than excellent. My FireWire cable works for the mini but I don’t seem to be having any luck with the USB cable.
So far, so good. I have about 2.5 Gb of music moved onto it. I really think a mini is enough for anyone but the obsessive or anyone who isn’t near their music collection for days at a time. You’re unlikely to get through that much music in a day or so . . .
At some point, it would make sense to merge all the music collections into one (I have one on my laptop, I have a backup downstairs, and now we have another that overlaps mine without being a subset of it). Perhaps I’ll see if Tiger offers a more robust automounter that Panther’s . . .
I was re-organizing the office/data center/room full ‘o cables today and needed to reboot the router/internet server. Judge of my amazement when Comcast refused to supply a new network address for it.
How do I know it’s that and not something else? Easy: I plugged in my iBook, got a different address, and all was well. Then I plugged the other machine in, nothing. In fact, I was getting the same address it had before, even after I wiped out the dhclient.leases file.
I swapped the cables to the cards, adjusted the myriad of files that needed it, rebooted and there it is, networked and ready, with a new network address (different from the one it had before for 25 days or so and from the one the iBook was issued). So obviously, they’re doing something incomprehensible like binding to a hardware address and refusing to expire old leases upon request.
Calling Speakeasy just moved up my to-do list.