Tag: Experimenting
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Taking a Beating in BootCamp
Well it happened this weekend for one of the new Mac owners in the faculty. They had purchased a new Macbook Pro based on advice that the BootCamp Beta would be a problem free setup. But as it happens, that is not what happened, it turns out that the Windows OS crashed out several times…
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Copies vs Links
Hopefully a short dump of ideas while I’m thinking about how to solve a problem with a database here. Kelly’s comments on the field of Science putting more value on links got me thinking about – of all things – Google. Created by two scientists who pretty much used the same idea that was behind…
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Couple interesting games
Found these talking to my younger relatives this weekend – Pivot and Whizzball.
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Hell hath frozen over again – Apple Boot Camp – Apple supporting XP instalation
I found this in my inbox this morning – Apple is now officially saying that they will support XP booting on Macintel hardware. This is certainly going to make things interesting as people may buy the Apple hardware for one reason, but then be stuck using Windows all the time. So there has got to…
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MovieMaker can be redeemed! And a bit of Re-Imagineering
Working with a class cutting together short films today, I had to try to figure out a way that a student who has to for various reasons work on a laptop that only has Movie Maker to be able to share the finished product with the rest of the class. Previously my experience with Movie…