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Monday, March 19, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
I’ve found Wal-Mart’s weakness
Wal-Mart, the monster of all stores. It's one of the few places I can get a gallon of milk, a head lamp for my car, a new DVD and a pair of shoes, at the same time.
But this morning I think I stumped them. I was near a store when the need for a photo copy arose. It was something like 7AM when most other stores are closed. So I thought, Wal-Mart will have a pay-per-copy machine and I just needed one copy. I walked in very triumphant. I knew Wal-Mart wouldn't let me down.
The very nice customer service person asked me if she could help, I said yes, I need to make a copy, where is the stores copy machine? She looked at me kind of funny and said "we don't have a copy machine" and went on her way. I was dumbfounded. The worlds largest super store didn't have a copy machine for customer use? I was willing to pay just about any amount for that copy. But I walked out empty handed and waited outside the local OfficeMax until 8AM when they opened.
So it turns out Wal-Mart doesn't have everything. They can provide you with prescriptions, taxes, glasses, food and clothing needs, but not your copy needs. I am finding another store.
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But this morning I think I stumped them. I was near a store when the need for a photo copy arose. It was something like 7AM when most other stores are closed. So I thought, Wal-Mart will have a pay-per-copy machine and I just needed one copy. I walked in very triumphant. I knew Wal-Mart wouldn't let me down.
The very nice customer service person asked me if she could help, I said yes, I need to make a copy, where is the stores copy machine? She looked at me kind of funny and said "we don't have a copy machine" and went on her way. I was dumbfounded. The worlds largest super store didn't have a copy machine for customer use? I was willing to pay just about any amount for that copy. But I walked out empty handed and waited outside the local OfficeMax until 8AM when they opened.
So it turns out Wal-Mart doesn't have everything. They can provide you with prescriptions, taxes, glasses, food and clothing needs, but not your copy needs. I am finding another store.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Help Find Brittany in Salt Lake City, Utah
Apparently Brittany has been found. I have no other information to pass on at this time. My original post has been removed as requested by the family.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
I bought a Mac, yea, I did
It's been a long time in the making, but I finally bought a Mac as my primary computer. An iMac to be exact. One of the deciding factors was the availability of an outstanding piece of software called Parallels. As much as I want to be a Mac only user, some of my work requires windows only applications. So I needed some way to use these application but still use a Mac.
It was quite easy to set it up. After I downloaded BootCamp from the Apple site, I created a new partition to install Windows XP on. Caveat; you must have a licensed version of Windows XP with Service Pack 2. I do, so I moved on. the 32GB partition should be plenty for what I need to do.
Once I went through the 4 hour Windows XP install (it sure seemed that long), I downloaded Parallels. The version I looked at was Parallels Desktop for Mac, and downloaded the trial version. I know I'll purchase once I've gotten everything to work. The process was so easy it almost hurt. It recognized my BootCamp partition and created a virtual desktop running Windows XP accessible right from my Apple desktop. Later my brother showed me how I could basically run windows applications in little virtual windows, using Coherence, that looked like they were running native to the Mac OS. Very cool. That alone made the $80 price tag easy to swallow.
Now, I've got everything running, loaded my windows applications, gave the Parallels process 1GB of memory, 1GB to the Mac and we are off. Things are running pretty well. So, if you have a daily need to run Windows applications, then I suggest Parallels. It is well worth the money. If you don't need to run Windows applications, then all the better.
One interesting side note. Once you install BootCamp and go through installing the new OS, for some odd reason the Mac defaults the boot order to the new partition. I wasn't given an option to pick, it just set it for me. You would think that an Apple product would keep the default boot partition to the Mac OS, but it didn't. I had to go into the system preferences and change the boot order. It was pretty easy, but at first I thought I had installed windows over my Mac OS.
Oh, and one other little caveat; when Windows is installing and wants to know what partition to install on, I was presented with 5 partitions. I'm not sure what they were all for. I had a C:, D:, E:, F: and a G:. Most were small but two were about the same size as what I had requested. The logical choice for me was C: since I figured thats what Windows would be looking for. I guess my choice was right.
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It was quite easy to set it up. After I downloaded BootCamp from the Apple site, I created a new partition to install Windows XP on. Caveat; you must have a licensed version of Windows XP with Service Pack 2. I do, so I moved on. the 32GB partition should be plenty for what I need to do.
Once I went through the 4 hour Windows XP install (it sure seemed that long), I downloaded Parallels. The version I looked at was Parallels Desktop for Mac, and downloaded the trial version. I know I'll purchase once I've gotten everything to work. The process was so easy it almost hurt. It recognized my BootCamp partition and created a virtual desktop running Windows XP accessible right from my Apple desktop. Later my brother showed me how I could basically run windows applications in little virtual windows, using Coherence, that looked like they were running native to the Mac OS. Very cool. That alone made the $80 price tag easy to swallow.
Now, I've got everything running, loaded my windows applications, gave the Parallels process 1GB of memory, 1GB to the Mac and we are off. Things are running pretty well. So, if you have a daily need to run Windows applications, then I suggest Parallels. It is well worth the money. If you don't need to run Windows applications, then all the better.
One interesting side note. Once you install BootCamp and go through installing the new OS, for some odd reason the Mac defaults the boot order to the new partition. I wasn't given an option to pick, it just set it for me. You would think that an Apple product would keep the default boot partition to the Mac OS, but it didn't. I had to go into the system preferences and change the boot order. It was pretty easy, but at first I thought I had installed windows over my Mac OS.
Oh, and one other little caveat; when Windows is installing and wants to know what partition to install on, I was presented with 5 partitions. I'm not sure what they were all for. I had a C:, D:, E:, F: and a G:. Most were small but two were about the same size as what I had requested. The logical choice for me was C: since I figured thats what Windows would be looking for. I guess my choice was right.
Twitter archive #1
Thank you LauraMoncur for giving me the idea to archive my twit entries. It would be nice to have a setting that just sent them as a post to your blog each day. How freaking cool would that be?
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- If u are going to blog a 'how-to', give us some meat not 10 lines of crap
- Stupid train is blocking the intersection
- Victor Wooten @ the Depot in Salt Lake City April 28
- watching a guy aerate my lawn, don't get in his way, ouch
- Day light savings really sucks
- trying to get a replacement for my dead Tmobile MDA
- my resume doesn't tell the whole story, let me say it in person
- is it wrong to twit at church?
- @ewanspence too much PSP
- It's freaking raining in Salt Lake City... arrgh.
- My T-Mobile MDA just died. How will I ever know whats going on? Quick, off to a T-Mobile store.
- saw the movie 300 a few hours ago, awesome.
- I'm mind mapping new websites. this ought to be fun.
- @lauramoncur: don't forget to tip the driver... hehe
- NASCAR, Las Vegas, warm weather... should be an awesome weekend
- SVN totally rocks!
- @lauramoncur: There should be plenty of places for hot Mexican. Be sure to stop by the Great British Booze-up and meet ewanspence
- iPod crash, reset... No
- Windows on a MAC is like jelly on peanut butter
- I need a great video camera for vidcasts, anyone have a suggestion?
- I did it, I'm now a full fledged MAC owner. Let the fun begin.
- Ewan I'm jealous I want all those cool toys
- Should have never had that last slice of pizza.
- Hey Ewan, have fun at SXSW.
- What do you do first thing in the morning? I MUST have the largest diet coke I can purchase with the change in my pocket. rev rev...
- Recording The Jazz Show #21, jazz.thepodcastnetwork.com
- Trying to figure out why I can't hit a web site on a local port... Dang Django
- writing code in Python / Django
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