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In Response to…
… those people who are upset that Captain Chesley Sullenberger III did not thank God or mention praying to God during his television interview with Katie Couric, here’s why:
Original quote: Gregg.
If you want this as a t-shirt, I may open a cafepress account.
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About a year ago, I ranted about Adobe having abandoned the Mac platform for their FrameMaker product. In that post, I quoted then-product-manager Aseem Dokania thusly:
…I believe there are some good workarounds available now for using windows applications on Mac. It may be possible to use one of them for FrameMaker.
Under the realistic threat that (code-named) Mandar Warrior Princess’ G5 iMac may die in the near future, I decided to give it a shot. It’s a number of years later, and technology actually makes it pretty easy to do what Aseem said on your Intel-based Mac. I still think he’s an asshole, though.
If you run 10.5.x (Leopard) on your Mac, you have the Boot Camp option, but you can only run Windows or OS X at one time. You have to reboot the machine to switch.
So for late-comers like me who still run 10.4.x (Tiger), and those who wish to run both operating systems concurrently, you have to install VMware or Parallels. These allow you to run a virtual machine on your Mac; essentially, Windows appears to run as an “application” on the Mac in its own… ahem… window.
Next, you install a version of Windows on the virtual machine. Finally, you install FrameMaker 9 for Windows, and you’re off!
None of it is very elegant (vis-à-vis having a Mac-native version), but it will work.
Mac users are screwed either way, though.
Adobe no longer makes FrameMaker for Mac; therefore your upgrade eligibility is nil, as they require upgrades be for the same platform. That juicy $399 upgrade price tag is there just to mock you.
So, how much will it really cost?
VMware and Parallels each retail for about $80. You can pick up a version of Windows XP 2002 (w/o service packs) on Amazon for $119. The full version of FrameMaker 9 for Windows is $999.
Total: $1,198.00
So here’s what I propose, Adobe.
Offer a “Mac Upgrade” option to customers like me who undoubtedly continue to faithfully shell out cash for Photoshop & Illustrator upgrades. Offer FrameMaker 9 for $800 to those with valid Mac FM serial numbers, thus subsidizing the purchase of the extra software required to make it work on my Mac.
I submitted this to Adobe via their website, but will likely not hear from them.
It’s too bad, though. It’s exactly this type of consideration that would make me (and many other Mac users) think, “okay, at least they’re trying not to be complete assholes about this,” and pay the $800.
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New Pics
They still have to be organized & stuff… but a lot of new Beanlet photos. Also: The Sig.
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I Wholeheartedly Apologize
1. “Towards”? No. “Toward”. Some would argue “samey same no takebacks, fucker”, but to them I say: “How the fuck can you pluralize a preposition?” Aboves? No. Arounds? No. See how this works?
2. “Any” means one of many. E.g., “pick any card” or “press any key”. One. Singular. Therefore, selecting one of many different ways results in: Any way. Or, more colloquially: Anyway. It’s never “anyways”. Never ever ever ever. Ever. Infinity. Fucking stop it!
3. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, and wish to deliver an indicative utterance: It’s spelled “oops” which rhymes with “poops”. It is not spelled “opps” which rhymes with “drops”. Unless you’re actually trying to convey that you’d normally say something that rhymes with “plops”, in which case you’re fucking retarded because nobody says “opps”; everyone says “oops”.
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What’s Wrong with the GOP?
Well, among other things…
THIS:
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OS X SMB: Duplicate Folder Fix
Problem: Somewhere in the file system of a mounted SMB share, a folder is shown twice. They have the same name, but case is different (e.g., Folder_One and FOLDER_ONE). On the actual file system, only one exists (most likely Folder_One). Found w/ OS X 10.4.11 and Samba 3.0.26a.
Fix: Delete the .DS_Store file inside the parent folder, parallel to the folder itself.
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The only album to get 
is:
Volbeat: Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil
There were 9 albums which earned 
to round out the top 10 this year:
Ringworm: The Venomous Grand Design
Left Lane Cruiser: Bring Yo’ Ass to the Table
36 Crazyfists: The Tide and Its Takers
Divine Heresy: Bleed the Fifth
Testament: The Formation of Damnation
Ashes Divide: Keep Telling Myself It’s Alright
The rest:
Unearth: The March
Resurrection: Mistaken for Dead
Mt. Helium: Faces
Krisiun: Southern Storm
Ill Niño: Enigma
Heaven Shall Burn: Iconoclast
Facebreaker: Dead, Rotten and Hungry
Cavalera Conspiracy: Inflikted
The Sword: Gods of the Earth
Slipknot: All Hope is Gone
Scar Symmetry: Holographic Universe
Rise Against: Appeal to Reason
Opeth: Watershed
Gojira: The Way of All Flesh
Filter: Anthems for the Damned
Enemy of the Sun: Shadows
Bullet for My Valentine: Scream Aim Fire
Puddle of Mudd: Famous
Death Angel: Killing Season
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: Have Another Ball
Byzantine: Oblivion Beckons
By far the worst album of the year 
goes to:
Meshuggah: ObZen
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Succinct Reviews of 5 Albums
Krisiun: Southern Storm
Brazilian death metal
Tight, thick and brutal. More for death metal fans than those of a Cavalera.
Rise Against: Appeal to Reason
Socially-conscious punk
Good radio-friendly punk that’s nowhere near as awesome as previous 2 releases.
Unearth: The March
American metalcore
Good for genre purists. Unmistakeable Killswitch influence.
Master: Slaves to Society
Throwback death metal
Crappy production on this re-release adds to sheer kick-ass-ocity of this album.
Gojira: The Way of All Flesh
Prog/death metal
Very double-kick-tastic, suffers from breakdowns. Some of the downtempo parts are laborious.
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