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.

Frustrations with my government: here. Warning: Mild adult content.

Frustrations with computers: I can’t get my Mac to see a USB printer shared on Windows 98 SE. I can’t get my Windows box to see the same USB printer shared on Mac OS 10.2.

I finally got the file sharing to work, at least. Yay for local mp3 sharing!

I may be doing tech geek work again. For money. As a job. Details are sketchy, it’s still a possibility.

The consulting company that I worked with before has hours again.

I’m also considering another option, but any info on that has to wait until I get a few details nailed down on workability. Nevertheless, I’m excited by it.

Lately, I feel as though I’ve been re-claiming my geekdom. I even considered putting Linux on my PC once I get it rebuilt. Then I realized that Linux won’t run Grapevine. Oh, well. When I get a newer PC with XP Pro on it, I’ll turn this machine into a Linux box. Maybe a firewall. That would be cool.

Motivation and creative energy are at a maximum. Full throttle. Warp speed ahead, Sulu.

Well, that’s done. The hub is plugged in to the router. I have 3 ports of 100 base T goodness (2 in use) directly from the router, and 5 ports of 10 base T goodness, none of which are in use.

I find it amazing that in a house of two macs and one (non-working) PC, it’s the ancient PC that’s the graphics machine. Parallel port scanner, zip drive, and cd-burner. Oh yeah. Bottleneck at the motherboard, baby.

Oh, and just in case I don’t say it enough in public:

I love .

I think, when I get home from work, I will add the hub into the mix as far as my cable modem and router go, thereby doubling the number of computers that can connect to my apartment’s network.

I haven’t done something like this just because I could in a very long time.