OSX86

It's like eating ice cream with a fork...
I'm finally back in OSX, but it's not the OSX that I remember from that old days... I'm running OSX on my Intel P4 (it is a hacked version of OSX, but I do have a legal copy that isn't installed on anything, so I think that gives me the right to test out OSX on a Pentium, well... At least I think it gives me the right).


It's taking some getting used to, since I'm trying to figure out all the short-cut keys, and why some applications randomly crash (verrrry unapple like), but over all I think it's been a quite interesting experiment.

Since I'm in VMWare, I've had some odd issues... First, it took me about 6 times before I could get the OSX installer to work (some guess work, and a little bit of determination, and things ended up fine). I'm not so sure how much I like the system yet though... It seems to be a bit of a CPU hog (although, that may just be because of how the OS is set up in VMWare), but I'm really enjoying the widgets! At first they were a bit of a pain to get configured and placed, but once I got them set, they make for quite the pleasant addition to the OS.


If there's one thing that justifies spending all that money on a macintosh, it is definitely how awesome the operating system looks. I've got a minor bug with this, since I have no control over my refresh rate (seems to be a VMWare problem), and my mouse and keyboard seem to be a bit delayed (seems to be an OSX issue).

I was even able to configure Japanese text input (いけ、いけ！日本語！) fairly easily, much easier than in Windows (and Linux is a bit difficult to get input methods to work just right anyway) but overall, I'm quite impressed with the operating system.

Coming Soon: Windows Vista: The Resurrection of Windows
and: Xgl (for linux) The Future of *NIX GUIs

MCSE

70-290

It's kind of sad, but I should have expected it...
As the term came closer and closer to ending at Baker College, I decided to peruse the online book catalog of the Owosso campus library. I ended up finding five or six MCSE test prep books, none of which looked like they had ever been removed from the shelf since they were put there!

With the upcoming Cram Session, I decided that it may be in my best interest to check out the 70-290 book and read it... But I knew that I wasn't going to be using it at all during exams week, so I decided that I would check it out after exams week, where it would either become checked out by one of my classmates, or I would get it and have it for all of break.

And that's exactly what happened. I grabbed the book, checked it out (had to have an override -- all books were due back on Friday of the last day of the term, and therefore, it was checked out for a maximum of 3 hours. ~sigh.) but now I've got the book in my possession and I'm already a decent bit into it.

My goal is to have the entire thing read by the end of spring break, and be well prepared for the upcoming cram session, which is supposed to take place sometime during Spring quarter. I sure hope this helps me out, I may end up watching some of the test prep videos that I have for 70-290 as well, before I return to campus in two weeks.