Very subjective of course, but I was very surprised and disappointed with my first real-world experience with the MacTV experience. I’m probably still going to get one so I can watch the BBC and Comedy Central without paying for ESPN, the Home Shopping Network and FOX too. But for movies I really hope they do look better than DVDs on my own set-up. I have some 2.5 year-old Sony DVD player and an $800 floor model of their 34″ HD CRT that I bought at the same time.

NT-based operating systems, at least, have always had this in the form of \\system\cddrive$ (for system-dependent values of “system” and the “cddrive” letter). That doesn’t make me like Windows one whit better, mind you. Just sayin’.

I also thought the rag on Blue was too long for us who don’t live in the SF media sphere. And definitely too much personal attack in it. But it’s not my blog, just not what I want to read.

Stuffit has severe flaws in my opinion, but it has some features that are irreplaceable as far as I know. For one, you can password-protect archives. For another, you can inspect the contents of archives without expanding them. And following that, you can selectively extract specific files without having to un-stuff it all.

Still, it costs way too much for me to be happy about, and along with those unique features comes aggravating slowness and frustrating UI clumsiness. Every time I use it I wish somebody would kill it and slice it up and make something better out of the pieces.

Lol! Very funny. Perhaps he should have taken her to the lost and found to locate her mommie, as she was clearly lost. ;)

I totally respect Steve for not wanting to take a photo with that. And it was totally polite, on his part, for not jumping ten feet back, when he realized what was touching him… I probably would’ve yelped for security and a medic.

StuffIt … what an appropriate name that has always been. Sit files used to be such a chore but they’re few and far between these days, and usually a valuable message: best avoid.