A couple weeks ago, I ordered a Mac Mini for Mozilla development purposes. This was intended as a short-term replacement for my dysfunctional laptop, and to give me coverage on the Macintosh platform which I didn't have before.
I won't rant about FedEx here; suffice it to say they've got good company-to-customer communication, but their support for customer-to-company leaves a bit to be desired...
I was going to write up an entry detailing the two evenings it took me to set up the Mac for building (it's not quite a 45 minute process for a first-timer, but the docs were there). Suffice it to say that I successfully built a SeaMonkey 1.0.x build for verification, and executed it with general satisfaction.
Also last night, I caught the pilot of "Eureka" on Sci-Fi channel.
I thought the show was pretty good. There were a couple cliches, of course, but I really enjoyed it. I must say, as a techie and an amateur (but well-received) sci-fi writer, I'd very much like to write an episode of that show. It was really well done, a fair amount of comedy to go with the storyline. My imagination was cooking last night with three or four jokes and/or homages that I could pull as part of a story I also envisioned.
The beauty of open-source: when something can be improved, even in the slightest way, people inspire themselves to do it...
But who's going to offer me a decent contract? :-) My "JavaScript Developer's Dictionary" book won't carry that much weight.
Posted by WeirdAl at July 19, 2006 7:03 PMNow I know who to bug when I get my Macbook in :)
I'm a little scared that it took you two nights to do though.
(From Alex: Well, I'd never done it before. It takes a little while to build up competence on any platform - Linux and Windows included.)
Posted by: Shawn Wilsher at July 20, 2006 6:46 AM