Silenced Poets

I've been interested in computers in some fashion for as long as I can remember. When I was younger the only thing I was allowed to do was play a few DOS games. Times changed, but I have still never built my own computer completely from scratch (obviously I'm not fabricating any of the parts...).

Cassandra's computer died and that brought along several frustrations for her. With that I set out to find a way to take away those irriatants. A focus for the computer became obvious: Multitasking. I also knew I needed to do this as cheaply as I could considering I don't have a whole lot of money.

It is apparently 12:25 on my "normal" time, but since I am traveling it is only 11:25. Obviously I can't sleep, so I am camped out in the bathroom (so that I don't wake Cassandra up with the light) and I'm hoping that by writing some I can become sleepy enough to... sleep.

A few years ago I, as everyone in my family, had only used Microsoft operating systems. Anything else was completely foreign to me. I managed to acquire a brand new Powerbook G4, one of the very last ones, as soon after I got it the move to Intel was pushed forward and the first Macbooks were released. Hardware aside, I was exposed to something new and after struggling at first to adapt, I was becoming used to doing things in a different way. A little less than a year later I decided to try Ubuntu on the aging eMachines desktop that my Powerbook had replaced for me.

So let me start this rant by saying that I have in my house 2 windows pcs (both of which are aging), a linux desktop, and an Apple laptop. Now about the current Safari 3.1 and Quicktime issues... What Apple is doing here is absolutely ridiculous. The fact that Apple software update attempts to install Safari 3.1 even if Safari isn't installed and bill it as an "update" is absolutely ridiculous. Now I'd like to look into what could be the cause of this behavior.