harpo macphearson
so the iMac’s gone and i’ve been using my Mac mini for a while.. the Mini’s pretty nice - since I was kinda forced into a general cleanup, I’m benefitting a bunch from that - but it’s (again) not the drastic speed change that I was kinda sorta hoping for. it is faster - 2x 2.0GHz CPUs is faster than 1x 1.8, and especially when that 1.8 is 3yo tech - but everything’s still about as snappy. iTunes works a lot better, though, and the sticking with Apple software is going pretty well aside from Safari 3 being kinda crashprone with Flash.
think I might switch back to DSL - I have something called Simplify Media that basically works as a proxy for DAAP, so I can listen to my iTunes library from work. I can get through about 30s of song before their p2p elimination crap kills my connection. Speakeasy claims I can get 6.0/768k, so I may see about that, or try AT&T again. after I moved last, though, the DSL went from 3.0 to .2 so I’d be surprised if I can actually get 6.0 out here.
in other news, I got a MIDI controller the other day - an M-Audio KeyStation 49e. I have no idea how to play piano, but now I’m reasonably competent at hitting the keys for the notes I want and no others. small steps.