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libertango) wrote2009-05-01 05:42 pm
libertango) wrote2009-05-01 05:42 pm
Entry tags:
- jwma,
- mac,
- mac mini,
- minimax,
- snow crash
Snow Crash
Well, a month-plus in to using Minimax (my Mac Mini), I can report I've seen it do something I thought was only an exaggeration:
A snow crash.
I wish I was kidding. I sat down at my desk to see my monitor flickering away. It wasn't the classic black-and-white TV snow -- it was more finely grained, and colorful.
It was snow, though. And completely unresponsive to anything other than a power cycle.
I haven't made much of the hiccups I've come across, because I know I have enough Mac devotees that it would only annoy them. Still, there's something that's become a catch phrase in these parts:
"'Just Works,' My Ass."
Little did I know I'd learn Neal Stephenson wasn't making a compelling picture to throw upon the imagination of the reader.
A snow crash.
I wish I was kidding. I sat down at my desk to see my monitor flickering away. It wasn't the classic black-and-white TV snow -- it was more finely grained, and colorful.
It was snow, though. And completely unresponsive to anything other than a power cycle.
I haven't made much of the hiccups I've come across, because I know I have enough Mac devotees that it would only annoy them. Still, there's something that's become a catch phrase in these parts:
"'Just Works,' My Ass."
Little did I know I'd learn Neal Stephenson wasn't making a compelling picture to throw upon the imagination of the reader.
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