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i get moores law and murphy's law mixed up.

desktops will go the way of ghetto blasters. everyone is going to carry their OS, Applications, and Documents on portable media. This is going to be driven by kids trying to work their way around parental controls. people will boot from the media, do what they need to do, then go. CPU id's will be useless. home computers are going to look more the like of commodore 64's and such. For a lot of us there may not be a "hardrive" as such. Browsing without a hardrive is going to be quite common. Any successfull OS is going to have to handle several binaries. the move by apple to X86, if it's going to happen, will allow people for the first time to fairly test the "flavor" of the PowerPC. It may turn out like the Coke 2 debacle. except apple is not coke.

 

I’ve spent the last couple days immersed in technical bullshit. The imac started acting up so I had to revert to the original hard drive. I hate fixing things now, but it was not worth the money to have fixed by somebody else. Anyway we got the old one running and I had fun downloading the essential files I need to do the music thing, luckily everything worked out, except I have this osx partition I cant access and don’t really need. When I eventually figured I couldn’t do anything with it, the vaio started calling me. I’ve been meaning to check out linux for a while so I looked it up in google and went to town. It seems every time I start on this linux thing I start running around in circles. Too many hoops to jump through to get it working right. They got this new thing though called “live”. There’s all sorts of different “compilations” but basically you boot the OS from your cd drive, and everything is up there in your memory. I cant really recommend one without at least tryi...