That... that was kind of a nice reminder.

Last night our downstairs neighbor knocked on our door, and asked if I could help her set up her printer. HP/Windows machine. Luckily, 'set up' meant "I can't remember how to connect it", so it took <60sec to do the physical cabling and basic setup. (Well, that doesn't include the removal of the old printer cruft that was left floating around...)

Except.

She booted her computer, which is connected directly to her cable modem. As soon as it came up, a taskbar monitor popped up an alert "Attack or intrusion detected. Block/Allow?" along with a vector name I recognized. Then another one. And another. And another. Web pages started popping up. Another. Then I noticed the alert was just cycling through vector names, one after another, sometimes a couple seconds between them, sometimes flipping by so fast the refresh on the CRT wasn't keeping up and they just flickered in and out.

This was just from booting.

I asked her if she wanted me to turn on her firewall, and they stopped once I did.

But HOLY SHIT. I <3 my Macs.

That... that was kind of a nice reminder.

Last night our downstairs neighbor knocked on our door, and asked if I could help her set up her printer. HP/Windows machine. Luckily, 'set up' meant "I can't remember how to connect it", so it took <60sec to do the physical cabling and basic setup. (Well, that doesn't include the removal of the old printer cruft that was left floating around...)

Except.

She booted her computer, which is connected directly to her cable modem. As soon as it came up, a taskbar monitor popped up an alert "Attack or intrusion detected. Block/Allow?" along with a vector name I recognized. Then another one. And another. And another. Web pages started popping up. Another. Then I noticed the alert was just cycling through vector names, one after another, sometimes a couple seconds between them, sometimes flipping by so fast the refresh on the CRT wasn't keeping up and they just flickered in and out.

This was just from booting.

I asked her if she wanted me to turn on her firewall, and they stopped once I did.

But HOLY SHIT. I <3 my Macs.

Well, I'm screwed.

3G, GPS, kick-ass apps*, battery life I'm going to have to see to believe (**300 hrs standby?!?**)... $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB, 16GB available in white as well as black.

July 11th.

Sweet.



Edit: *LAUGH* First four comments, and you all knew what I was talking about, without me even having to say what it was. :D

Edit 2: * dollraves, you're going to want to take a look at the official eBay auction app... with push notification...

Well, I'm screwed.

3G, GPS, kick-ass apps*, battery life I'm going to have to see to believe (**300 hrs standby?!?**)... $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB, 16GB available in white as well as black.

July 11th.

Sweet.



Edit: *LAUGH* First four comments, and you all knew what I was talking about, without me even having to say what it was. :D

Edit 2: * dollraves, you're going to want to take a look at the official eBay auction app... with push notification...

RDF... fading...

Okay, love the iPhone 3G, but there are some things that didn't show up.

1) Better camera. Still 2MP. Meh.
2) Front camera. No video conferencing. Meh.
3) 32GB version. Would have been nice. Guess this was to get the cost down. (And their cloud push makes this much less of an issue, IMO.)
4) No mention of copy/paste. This one still boggles my mind.
5) No mention of new BT profiles: stereo audio? keyboard?
6) Um... hmm.

I can't wait for MMS to die a slow painful death, so that's no issue for me, and the lack of replaceable battery I see as a complete non-issue in the first place.

Hmm. Guess I'm not as disappointed as I thought I was. Really, #4 and #5 are the biggest ones for me.

RDF... fading...

Okay, love the iPhone 3G, but there are some things that didn't show up.

1) Better camera. Still 2MP. Meh.
2) Front camera. No video conferencing. Meh.
3) 32GB version. Would have been nice. Guess this was to get the cost down. (And their cloud push makes this much less of an issue, IMO.)
4) No mention of copy/paste. This one still boggles my mind.
5) No mention of new BT profiles: stereo audio? keyboard?
6) Um... hmm.

I can't wait for MMS to die a slow painful death, so that's no issue for me, and the lack of replaceable battery I see as a complete non-issue in the first place.

Hmm. Guess I'm not as disappointed as I thought I was. Really, #4 and #5 are the biggest ones for me.