May 14, 2002

windows 3.11

Yes, we are still alive. The bike wreck wasn’t that bad.

We must have been out of our mind when we recently decided to take an old 486 computer and then buy a laser printer that we knew was only Windows compatible, thereby forcing us to spend the last week reinstating Windows 3.11 (because every little adjustment would then freeze the computer, drop us back into DOS and we didn’t have the first clue how to update the AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files getting us back to an operable system). Funny that they call it an “operating” system at all. We tried to put the free copy of Personal MacLAN on it so that we could do a little file sharing between the Performa, iMac and 486. I’m sure it’s a great program and I’m sure Linksys makes great ethernet cards, but on Win3x they won’t talk to each other.

“Hey, dude, what about Linux?” Yeah, maybe if we had about six months of life that we didn’t mind spending in front of a monitor. We do that already. It’s our job. We just want to check our email, print out Dharma books, listen to mp3 files and surf the web. This is why we choose Mac. It can do anything and do it well. We’ll let you know how it turns out, but PowerPrint and a USB-to-Parallel adapter should be the solution. Plug the laser printer directly into the iMac and put the 486 back in the closet where it belongs.

In an unrelated note, how do you feel about this first person plural “thing”. It started a little over a month ago and “we’re” not sure how “we” feel about it. It’s a nice concept. Works great for Zeldman. It’s hard to write with real emotion and feeling this way though. Feels like a corporate mission statement or something. “I” think that “we’ll” switch back to first person singular for awhile. It may be fun to try some third person sometime. (“He” will think about this and let you know of any changes.)

posted @ 7:57 AM

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