THE MURDER OF MY NEW COMPUTER

Indyeastend ^ | December 09, 2009 | By Jerry Della Femina

[7thson]

I flew Southwest to NYC back in September. Great flight. Fun crew. Same on the way back down. Flew Lufthansa to Germany a couple years ago. There and back - the worst flight I ever flew. Plane, crew, passengers - everything sucked. Flew down to Atlanta late September. I think it was AirTran. Average flight - nothing bad nor good, which is good I guess.

However - it is TSA that sucks. Their arrogance is constantly on display as they know the slightest complaint from a passenger gives them the authority to wreck havoc on their lives.

[listenhillary]

The greenies don’t want us to fly. The government probably doesn’t think too much of the idea either.

[rbg81]

Not to mention using the inner strap as well, which most laptop cases have.

[ReignOfError]

If you took a big revolver with 50,000 chambers and one bullet, and gave the cylinder a spin, I still wouldn’t put it to my head and pull the trigger.

Do you still drive?

[Yo-Yo]

Too bad Apple won't let Panasonic make these in MAC OS flavor...

[altair]

I run windows because I must (I'm a tech)

That's B.S. Barry Soetoro. You can always Just Say No. Or at least I do. When I signed on to NEC's Unix division, my manager presented me with a PC-98 Microsoft Windows box. I asked him flat out, "This is a joke, right?". I proceeded to use that as a footrest until they took they machine for some other unfortunate soul to use, while I ran Linux for desktop on a more suitable machine.

I'm not all that fond of CDE on Solaris, but it works better for me than Microsoft Windows.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

When they "innocently" announce that your flight is delayed for 10 minutes, don't believe it.

In Nov. my Continental flight to Newark was delayed for 5 hrs. As a result we then missed our next flight to PA. So we ended up renting a Hertz car to get home and had a flat tire on Route 78 at midnight.

[Tzfat]

Huh? A TSA agent did not zip up his bag and he spends the last two paragraphs complaining about “the airlines” - sheesh...

[roamer_1]

That's B.S. Barry Soetoro.

: D

You can always Just Say No. Or at least I do.

Not in BumF&%k, Egypt you can't...

When I signed on to NEC's Unix division [...]

There are only two major 'nix networks in town... I know the guys running both of them, and consult for both of them. But the lion's share of the work here is in SOHO and residential, which is primarily, and ultimately Windows.

I have converted a fair number of mom & pop folks to Linux (Ubuntu, so BSD, really), and considering the level of 'nix support in this town, I probably get most of that action...

But 'nix boxen don't break and are virus free... And ext3 doesn't crap itself up like NTFS5 does.

If you expect me to be a Linux purist and make a living here, you're dreaming.

[GCC Catholic]

A tragic tale of warning... always double check your laptop case when someone other than you... and even when YOU have opened it... before you pick it up again.

I feel sorry for this guy, because I've fallen into similarly unfortunate (though not as expensive) circumstances. However, it was definitely his fault... and this is the exact lesson to learn, not "TSA is evil" (they are, but not for this).

This is where it is good to have a non-"TSA approved" laptop bag... I have to take the laptop out, then I am the one to put it in again.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

always double check your laptop case when someone other than you... and even when YOU have opened it... before you pick it up again.

Exactly.

The best gift you can give yourself every day is to keep your head in the game. Always be aware of what is going on around you and your person. You'll be amazed at what you'll see and what tragedies you'll avoid.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Panasonic Toughbook.

Now yer talkin' tough.

[antiRepublicrat]

The prospect of being forced to sit for countless hours bent like a pretzel in a tiny seat with absolutely no leg room so that a fat and greedy airline CEO can meet his profit forecast is the stuff that revolutions are made of.

The airlines are only doing this because a majority of customers demanded the cheapest airfare possible.

[BradyLS]

Poor man. TSA set him up for failure. But he grabbed the bag without double-checking.

[zeugma]

I'm not all that fond of CDE on Solaris, but it works better for me than Microsoft Windows.

Only marginally better, in that it has actual multiple desktops. However, CDE sucks. Every version I've ever run was a serious dog. Of course, it used to be all you could get, so you had to live with it. Hell, I'd rather use gnome than CDE.

BTW: I was the same way at my job. First thing I did with my laptop was load Linux on it. WHen they ordered me my latest desktop, the disk came virgin clean. I honestly don't know how folks get work done on windows.

[TChris]

Ubuntu, so BSD, really

Don't know where you got THAT idea. It's incorrect.

Ubuntu is not BSD, it's based on Debian Linux.

[Darnright]

>I have converted a fair number of mom & pop folks to Linux (Ubuntu, so BSD, really), and considering the level of ‘nix support in this town, I probably get most of that action...<

Chuckle. Upthread you said something about not speakin’ da Macanese. Since said Macanese is based on Unix, I bet you speaka more of it than you’ll ever care to admit.

Ducking and running for cover :P

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

The greenies don’t want us to fly. The government probably doesn’t think too much of the idea either.

Well, while I might agree that the greenies don't, I doubt it about the government. I think the "government" (in that generic form) does realize how much business and money comes out of that activity and into the rest of the economy.

[Lancey Howard]

Do you still drive?

Oh, sure. The operative word being "I". (I'm not a comfortable passenger.)
Anyway, you're not comparing survival rates for car crashes versus plane crashes, are you?

[Star Traveler]

Some previous Apple articles posted on Free Republic...
at least by Star Traveler

• Who Can Kill the iPhone?
• Apple's iTunes overtakes Amazon in overall music sales
• Apple iPhone expected to drive mobile phone industry toward fancier touch screens
• Apple devotees rush stores for iPhone
• Mac users 'ecstatic' about new Apple Store
• Jobs Is Back, Apple's Still Standing, Life Goes On
• Out with Treos, in with iPhones
• Letters from Microsoft: An Employee Tosses His Zune
• Apple's 99-Cent Apps Are Too Cheap, Microsoft Says
• ONE IN FOUR SONGS IN U.S. BOUGHT ON iTUNES
• "APPLE HAS CHANGED THE WAY THE GAME IS PLAYED", says MSFT Win Mob chief
• iPhones Cause People To Talk Less
• GROKLAW’S EXCELLENT TAKE ON THE RECENT PSYSTAR SHENANIGANS (Apple Computer)
• PSYSTAR HIT WITH $5K FINE FOR DISCOVERY ABUSE (Apple Computer)
• INTEGO SPOTS MALWARE BLOCKER IN SNOW LEOPARD (Apple Mac OS X)
• Parallels to make switching to the Mac easier, safe and painless
• THE IPHONE & STEVE BALLMER: IT’S TIME FOR HIM TO EAT SOME SERIOUS CROW
• An in-depth look at Psystar’s legal defeat at the hands of Apple
• Has Palm finally given up on the great cat/mouse/iTunes chase of ‘09?
• Jobs’ Personal, Terse Reply to Developer [Apple Computer]
• Android goes for iPhone weak spot: porn apps [Porn is iPhone Killer?]
• Mac sales projected to grow 26% in 2010, outpacing PC market
• Apple's iPhone On Its Way To Becoming The Microsoft Windows Of Mobile
• Is Apple the Mobile Walmart?
• Apple's Base Stations Have Three 802.11n Streams [Faster WiFi on Apple]
• Analysis: Apple Embraces The Cloud, Positions Mobile With Lala Deal [Extends iTunes]
• Forget The iPhone: The iPod touch Is Where It’s At
• >All Hail the iPod touch
• Apple Bans Another Developer, 1000+ Apps Pulled [Developer scamming reviews]
• Lala purchase may hint at the coming of the rumored iTunes Replay service
• Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow. [iPhone Talk-to-text]
• Apple can be copied, but can it be beat?