Today Suz and I both took a half day to take care of Alex, who is still a little bit under the weather. I got back home at about 13:00 and since it was so beautiful outside, convinced Alex to join me in the backyard and be out in the sunshine and fresh air for a while.

I'm trial testing Samsung Contact for Linux and since I finally got a chance to burn a CD of 8.0.1 from the ISO file I downloaded from them this morning, the afternoon was the first chance I got to play with the package on my new development box at work.

I have to say that no matter who you are, graphic designer, programmer, sysadmin, Apple's OS X is for you. I had a VNCThing session open to the Windows 98 desktop in my upstairs office, a tunneled X session open to the installer ap (which blended into my Mac desktop like it was a native ap and spawned two Mozilla windows seamlessly), a half dozen rotating Safari windows and streaming Eurodance playing through my speakers, all while sitting on the swingset in the backyard on my Powerbook G4 watching Alex play horseshoes.

The install wizard they provide takes about 3 minutes to initialize, so I fired off a quick e-mail to my sales contact at the company to complain that the installer seemed to be broken.

It started up a minute (and two restarts) later, so I wrote a followup: "I'm logged in remotely from the backyard (kid is sick but the weather is beautiful) so that seems to be making everything take just a tad longer. I was just getting frustrated by the 3 minutes between when I typed "omwizard" and when the first X window popped on the screen. Now things seem to be going very smoothly. Nice to know that I can install/administer a product from the swingset. ;-)"

I'm such a bastard sometimes. At least I didn't mention that I was also in my slippers.

March 24, 2003 - March 26, 2003

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