I found the missing power strip from the move. I also have the APC three-row power strip that I got for Christmas. Total geekgasm as far as a power strip goes. APC’s guarantee and quality for a simple power strip. Anyway, I have determined that I have an insane amount of cords, and should probably wall mount my power supplies.

However, I will need to make room for a third desk and computer here in the mid-to-near future. I’m not even thinking about the station I was gifted with at xmas that currently resides at ‘s house. Bah, that one should stay there for visitation purposes, at least. ;)

I also want to mount my Altec Lansing satellite speakers and subwoofer in a way that allows everyone in the computer room, no matter what desk you’re sitting at, to enjoy -both- sides of the stereo music. I should clearly call ‘s brother about this. Not to mention my VCR that won’t get or display video properly in my mess of an entertainment system.

Gah. Tired. Sleep now.

The beta trial for iChat AV is done. I need to purchase Panther if I want iChat AV now. I’m considering it, because of the improved Finder and font management as well as licensed iChat AV.

The new finder looks suspiciously like gnome’s file browser for RedHat. I’m guessing that it’s similar across the board, as far as distros go, but why couldn’t Apple just do that right off the bat? Heh.

Okay, my Apple geekery is done… FOR NOW! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

While playing around with the Creative Nomad MuVo NX that ‘s brother got me for Xmas, I opened up Creative’s initialization utility.

Hrm, I wondered, what is this?

Apparently, they named their format utility an initialization utility. On Win98SE. Duhr. If I had been on a Mac, I never would have clicked on “start”. Heh.

So, I have this idea…

• I’ve got an old AT power supply that’s in a case that’s wonderfully painted silver and be-stickered, including a Decepticon logo on the front.
• I’d need a motherboard that was old enough to deal with AT, but new enough to have AGP. I’m thinking the high end of the old AT mobos.
• I’d need enough of a hard drive to handle WinXP.
• I’d need a mid to high end sound card.
• I’d need a set of speakers that had a subwoofer and several satellites that could be mounted to wall corners.
• I’d need a standard NIC.
• I’d need an assload of memory and video memory to handle XP on that old mobo, as well as iTunes’ little visualization niftyness.
• I’d need a touch screen monitor that I could mount to the wall at around shoulder level, maybe a bit higher.

What would I have? SOUNDWAVE.

This can be done.

Apple X11 – Installed.
OpenOffice.org – Installed.
Configuration – Complete.
Reading and writing to zip drive from app – Successful!

XWindows is odd to have running on my Mac. I’ve used similar apps on my PC to run XWindows apps remotely on my Windows desktop. I can’t say I’m not diggin’ it tho.

Now I’m trying the new beta iChat. Will the madness never end?!

I’m downloading the public beta 3 of the X11 system for Apple OS X 10.2. An operating version of OpenOffice.org has finally been released for the Mac, but it requires X11. Apparently the new OS X 10.3 is going to have the final version, not just the public beta, of X11 included. Wonder if it’ll work on my old-school Indigo iMac.

Ahh, the lengths I go to for a free office suite.

If 10.3 will work on old-school systems, I’m going to have to fulfill my dream of picking up a used iBook (one of the dual-colored ones), crank up the hard drive and RAM, and use it exclusively for writing. MU HA HA! Now, if only iChat would support plugins and tabbed window chatting like gAIM does. Oh, and if only X11 would support something like wine so I could run Grapevine on my Mac. That would be schweet.

“If only” will become “I did it!”. It will.

I found out yesterday that Mac OS 10.x is not designed to share its printers to Windows. So, full Samba integration is lacking. Looks like I’m going to have to hit MSU Salvage/Surplus on Wednesday or Friday to pick up an old printer server module. I WILL network that printer, damnit! :)

Thank the gods that the printer has both USB and Parallel connections on the back.

Last night, the /absolute rightness/ feeling went away and has yet to return.

Our logo is schweet as hell.

Off to work (not /real/ work) to plan the MABA thing for tomorrow. Maybe I can get some ideas from the mac techs there about sharing my USB printer to my Windows 98 SE box. Or hooking it up to the Windows box and seeing it from the iMac.

This song fits me today.