Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Wireless internet and the mac!

Uni is in full swing now, and one of the biggest perks of taking a mac into lectures (besides looking incredibly pretentious of course :P), was so I could access lecture slides from the internet. So I get to the lecture, turn on the airport, and select the Uni's wireless network. Nothing happens. I then go through and configure the wireless network with no success. As a last resort, I ring my FH at work, sobbing that the stupid computer won't connect to the stupid wifi... spent 5 minutes messing around with settings to no avail.

So I give up, go to my next class and lo and behold I get an instant connection. The solution? I had no signal in the previous lecture room! So while I had been cursing the poor machine, it was in fact my university who had failed to let us know that they only had certain hot spots where we could access the internet! All working great now with no issues thankfully.... just not in that lecture room :P

As a side note, one of my lecturers is posting our notes up in docx format.... which is unreadable for anything except office 2007! Ahhhhh!

Going back to University soon!

Well the time is almost here when I go back to studying: it has been a great 4 months of working and holidaying! I am busily preparing all my material (on my mac ofcourse), and also preparing myself for a stressful year of law (as I have just graduated from psychology - which I think was keeping me sane!).

I am studying administration law, civil procedure, corporate law, and law & technology - so there will be quite a few upcoming blogs about my ponderings on the impact of the law on the internet (big area of interest for me). For anyone who has real the terms and conditions for anything they install on their computer, you may know that by agreeing to the terms and conditions you consent to any future amendments to the terms and conditions. How does this fit with the traditional law? I don't know (yet), but will find out in the weeks to come ;)

Friday, February 15, 2008

Not mac related but who cares - Phantom of the opera!

Went and saw Phantom of the Opera the tonigh night at QPAC, and loved it! It was the most amazing experience of my life! I now have all the music and listen to it constantly...

Saturday, February 9, 2008

I heart firefox! Oh and I heart my mac!

I have fallen in love with firefox again! I love the add ons, I love its speed, I love its familiarity.... I have now deleted opera and safari from my dock (*shock, horror!*). I almost added a few more programs to my dock, just to remove them (there is a little cloud, and a 'poophh' noise... very very cool!).

I am starting to understand the age old saying (well maybe not that age old.... but anyway), unix for stability, macs for productivity.... and windows for solitaire :P Although the mac has the incredible short fall of not coming pre-installed with solitaire which I think is part of the reason it is more productive, you come to appreciate that everything just 'runs'. I have owned the mac for around a month now, and nothing ever crashes, freezes, takes unthinkable amounts of time to install or summons the ominous 'blue screen of death. It just works!!!!