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Wow, the first DRC that I've started.

I've spent the last day or so installing OS X 10.4.8. On my IBM Thinkpad R40. Can't get my video card to use Quartz Extreme or Core Image, the onboard ethernet, wireless and pcmcia slot isn't working, but it runs really good otherwise (even played around with Cubase LE and stuff, which sucks without my Firepod, which won't work because my pcmcia slot doesn't work, and I only have cardbus firewire) It's been a learning experience. (I suck at unix)

Just put some steaks under the broiler, the daughter is telling me she's hungry.

QotD: Which is better, Windows or OS X?

Today I learned that a broiler is a grill.

Denyer wrote:Today I learned that a broiler is a grill.

Thanks. I was wondering why he was putting steak under a chicken. I just assumed he was mad.

Caravan Ray wrote:

Denyer wrote:Today I learned that a broiler is a grill.

Thanks. I was wondering why he was putting steak under a chicken. I just assumed he was mad.

You dumbass. 'broiler' is the top heating element in the oven. Although, putting a steak under a chicken would probably be pretty tasty...

Märk wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:

Denyer wrote:Today I learned that a broiler is a grill.

Thanks. I was wondering why he was putting steak under a chicken. I just assumed he was mad.

You dumbass. 'broiler' is the top heating element in the oven. Although, putting a steak under a chicken would probably be pretty tasty...

You don't put a flame 'broiled' Whopper in the oven.

Turducken...never had it but I sure wish somebody would make it for me.

Märk wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:

Denyer wrote:Today I learned that a broiler is a grill.

Thanks. I was wondering why he was putting steak under a chicken. I just assumed he was mad.

You dumbass. 'broiler' is the top heating element in the oven. Although, putting a steak under a chicken would probably be pretty tasty...

what, you've never heard of cluck and chuck?

To the best of my cooking knowledge.
A "broiler" chicken is a male chicken slaughtered young. I do know this. Don't ask me why they aren't called young roosters, I don't make the rules. There are female broiler chickens, but raised for their eggs. I do know this also. They should call them broiler hens in my opinion.
Broiling is any form of direct flame cooking.
So, the bottom of an oven is a broiler, but so is a gas grill.
Not to be confused with barbecue, which is indirect flame cooking from smoldering wood or charcoal. (but don't flames spring up from the fat drippings?)
Not to be confused from smoking, which is indirect flame and heat with the added delight of smoke curing.

OK, google searchers, blow holes in my limited "broiler" knowledge. I'd like to be more informed. On your marks, get set...GO!

Ooops. QOTD: sex

Today was my birthday. I had fun with my family at Disney's California Adventure. Got some Wii games and a Mickey Mouse bowling shirt.

QOTD: I'm a mac person.

Ross wrote:and a Mickey Mouse bowling shirt.

Coolness in the Durand home.

Märk wrote:I've spent the last day or so installing OS X 10.4.8. On my IBM Thinkpad R40.

Is that even possible? It makes my head hurt just to think about it.

Spud wrote:

Märk wrote:I've spent the last day or so installing OS X 10.4.8. On my IBM Thinkpad R40.

Is that even possible? It makes my head hurt just to think about it.

Google search

It does make one's head hurt a bit. But then, you just have to remember that in its current incarnation, OS X is just a fancy flavour of unix, and Apple themselves ported it all to x86 architecture... a few hacks to the code that made sure it was booting on genuine Apple hardware, and boom, it's working on vanilla x86 hardware. The worst part is trying to get all the devices working right. Oh, and don't use Apple's Software Update, at least not for the main OS updates. Learned that one the hard way, although I had a bad feeling about it even as I was doing it

If you feel like trying it out yourself.

<a href="http://5thirtyone.com/archives/867">Way more awesome than the MacBook Air</a>

and qotd: mac, though it's far from perfect (but it sucks less than Windows or Linux, at least for the things I do on my computer).

Update: Got cardbus and onboard nic working... still no wireless, although I made it kenel panic a few times after f^&king around with Info.plists inside wireless driver kexts.

This OS X shit is kind of fun and/or hackable, actually.

Fluffy: That sub-compact laptop looks cheap-ass. (and at $399, it is, in fact, cheap-ass) I actually like the looks of the Macbook Air, but that seems to be its main selling point. What if you accidentally sat on it? It would fold in two. Apple always goes for aesthetics over substance, IMO.

[Edit] Here's a screencap from my IBM Thinkpad R40 running OS X (natively, this is not emulation, people) Everything is very responsive, it basically runs better than windows. Apparently, a Pentium 4 is "unknown", and my RAM is running at 0 MHz. And I happened to capture the best single frame in Beerfest

Well, yeah. That's one of the things I'm most annoyed about with them lately... their product lines aren't based on what people actually want, but on what Jobs thinks people want, and by "people" he doesn't mean "core userbase."

For example, they haven't had a midrange non-integrated-display desktop computer in a long time. They just have two extremes at the opposite ends of the spectrum - the way massive MacPro and the feeble Mini. Their main thing for midrange users is laptops, but then there's a pretty big disconnect between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. (And the Air is of course "in the middle" except that the Air is much lower-end than the base MacBook in every way except portability.) Okay, so the Air fits in a manila envelope. Whoop-de-shit. I guess it's great if you only need a computer for Internet crap and Word and you don't care about using a fragile hard drive which is simply not built for general-purpose use, but whatever.

The funny thing is that they actually have a much more compact, thin, and portable computer than anything else - the iPod Touch, which is actually a pretty decent computing platform. Now if only Apple would finally release the dang SDK, or at least stop people from Jailbreaking it...

Märk wrote: QotD: Which is better, Windows or OS X?

This thread is a bit over my head. Soooo - let's see if I've got this right. I've got a Mac - so I can watch the titty girls?

Märk, it's generally considered in bad taste to post inline titty pics on forums where people might be reading at work.

Cool that OSX is running so well for you though. Welcome to the fruity side.

whats with ZZ Top in the background of your Beerfest screencap, Märk?

fluffy wrote:Märk, it's generally considered in bad taste to post inline titty pics on forums where people might be reading at work.

fixed.

Märk wrote:

fluffy wrote:Märk, it's generally considered in bad taste to post inline titty pics on forums where people might be reading at work.

fixed.

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