I finally gave up on Windows after my PC went into a blue screen loop following a Windows update. OK, I’d paid for the 3 year extended warranty (I usually avoid these, but thought I might need one). There are a couple of laws which kick into action here (Murphy’s is one of them).? The manufacturer \/ retailer went bust 3 months after I bought it.<\/p>\n
I’d bought an iPod just after Christmas, and was very impressed with the technology.<\/p>\n
So I bought a Mac mini. It’s tiny. It’s quiet. It doesn’t need lots of patches just to stop it from being compromised. And it doesn’t seem to need a processor dedicated to grinding through all the disks in case something nasty did get through.<\/p>\n
I’d been through a process of migrating my software to Open Source over the last few years (with OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, JAlbum et al<\/em>). The only reason for me to run Windows now is Suunto’s Dive Manager, and I think JDiveLog’s going to give the answer to that one. I’m missing Notepad++ and php \/ MySql at the moment, and I’ve still gor to migrate my mailbox, but I’m sure those’ll have worked out before too long.<\/p>\n LightRoom loaded up fine (which it should, of course), and (allowing for the differences system UI) seems quite seamless.<\/p>\n The main issue was that none of my old USB drives were writeable. I’ve installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G, and they look<\/em> alright, but I’ve not quite taken the plunge yet.<\/p>\n The other issue is that headset microphones don’t seem to work with t the audio in. Apparently, this is at line level, so I need a preamp (or a USB or Firewire interface gadget).<\/p>\n Still, it’s lovely to have backup software just kinda .. well .. there.<\/p>\n And I’m starting to get to grips with iMovie (which is installed) for a project I’m working on (more on that later, probably). A very new experience for me.<\/p>\n So … sorry if I’ve been a bit uncommunicative in this transition. Once I get everything sorted out, Ishould have less personal downtime in future…<\/p>\n Now, when’s the Apple Netbook going to appear ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … that big, scary move from Windows to Apple Mac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[83,82,84,136],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assorted-rants","category-site-news","tag-lightroom","tag-photo-toolkit","tag-photo-workflow","tag-website-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}