No problem, Scott. It's a great question actually, and I'm glad to have the chance to clear it up (I doubt you're the first person to have noticed:-)
Here's the deal: I actually have a bunch of computers all over the place running different things. I've got the iMac, a Vista box (Ick. No, really...super-ick), an XP box, a couple other Macs scattered around, an Ubuntu box, an Eee PC I borrow that makes occasional appearances (I love it), and I'm about to start dabbling in OpenSUSE. <Insert Fedora plug here, my first love>
I have the different setups for a few reasons. Some of the things I do outside of work require me to have XP; professionally I write about lots of different tech and this give the the chance to review and compare apps; and (the biggest reason) I love me some computers. Some folks collect stamps, I collect tech. :-)
The screensaver says "Rockbox rocks!" -- and it totally does. The cropped pic was a quick .jpg I took to toss onto Blip as a thumbnail.
Thanks for watching and feel free to ask whatever's on your mind.
Oh, almost forgot. Yep, the laptop in front of me is a MacBook Pro. That was issued to me by SourceForge (yes, I know... ironic, but they have their reasons) and most of us use BootCamp, (or, in my case VMware Fusion) to shoehorn Linux onto it. I usually use it to edit the shows, and so far I've been using iMovie -- which, quite frankly sucks sweat socks. Roblimo, our resident video guru, and I have been debating what a better option would be. Kino probably won't do what I need, or at least not easily. Sony Vegas looks attractive but I'm told it's got a fairly steep learning curve (which is fine with me but I'm so busy right now that learning a new app well enough in a week's time to get these shows up isn't on my list of to-dos right now).
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Posted by: Lisa on March 21, 2008 11:45 PMHere's the deal: I actually have a bunch of computers all over the place running different things. I've got the iMac, a Vista box (Ick. No, really...super-ick), an XP box, a couple other Macs scattered around, an Ubuntu box, an Eee PC I borrow that makes occasional appearances (I love it), and I'm about to start dabbling in OpenSUSE. <Insert Fedora plug here, my first love>
I have the different setups for a few reasons. Some of the things I do outside of work require me to have XP; professionally I write about lots of different tech and this give the the chance to review and compare apps; and (the biggest reason) I love me some computers. Some folks collect stamps, I collect tech. :-)
The screensaver says "Rockbox rocks!" -- and it totally does. The cropped pic was a quick .jpg I took to toss onto Blip as a thumbnail.
Thanks for watching and feel free to ask whatever's on your mind.
Oh, almost forgot. Yep, the laptop in front of me is a MacBook Pro. That was issued to me by SourceForge (yes, I know... ironic, but they have their reasons) and most of us use BootCamp, (or, in my case VMware Fusion) to shoehorn Linux onto it. I usually use it to edit the shows, and so far I've been using iMovie -- which, quite frankly sucks sweat socks. Roblimo, our resident video guru, and I have been debating what a better option would be. Kino probably won't do what I need, or at least not easily. Sony Vegas looks attractive but I'm told it's got a fairly steep learning curve (which is fine with me but I'm so busy right now that learning a new app well enough in a week's time to get these shows up isn't on my list of to-dos right now).
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