tiger review from windows guy

Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite reviews Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. He concludes (emphases mine): The marketing that accompanies Tiger’s release is no different: Described by Apple as “a super-modern operating system” and “the newest major release of the world’s most advanced operating system,” Tiger will, in Apple’s words, “change the way you use a computer.” …

vienna teng wows ’em

Vienna Teng played the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. They liked her. A lot: By the end of her quietly breathtaking 20-minute set that night, she was a star. “We got up there and the response was just stunning, overwhelming, really,” said Teng, who brings her hushed, meditative, piano-based songcraft to The Ark for two shows …

open firmware’s default catch

i was upgrading a friend’s iMac G3* to Mac OS X 10.3.9 today. after we rebooted, he was stuck in open firmware. after i typed mac-boot at the prompt, it said default catch and refused to proceed any further. the usual trick of >set-defaults >reset-all did not help. what did fix the problem was booting …