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Dot Com that is.  Enjoy.

While I’m posting nerdy stuff, I’ve got some questions for people with experience using iLife and LaTex in OSX. I have tried to get LaTex to work on my machine, but I am convinced I am retarded and it refuses to cooperate. Forget where I got it from, but I guess the installation instructions etc were unclear.

As for iLife, do people have positive feelings? Thought it could be cool to build websites the lazy way (simple code is fine, but trying fancy things gets annoying with text). Just not sure if it’s worth the $40 if I’m just going to screw around with it, and not necessarily use it …

I don’t really want to discuss this much, but for those unaware there’s a story on the wires that says that Terrell Owen’s hospital trip wasn’t just an allergic reaction. Crazy if true.  and sad.

So my G4 has been fairly slow for a while, of which I always chalked up to iTunes and other programs being pissed off at my damn near full hard drive. I recently got a new 250GB backup drive, and partitioned it to store some shit, as well as make a back-up of my Powerbook disk. Cleaning things up and making some free space did help for a while, but things have gotten slower than ever. Now, I realize the new iTunes is a bit slower than the last, but it certainly doesn’t account for all of my recent shit. You don’t really need to defragment a Mac (like you would a PC if it decided it start slowing down like this) because of the file management (or that’s what I hear). I was looking at Top the other day in the terminal, and noticed that I have 65 processes open, with only a few actually running. I assume it is this giant number of open programs eating up my RAM, but most of this shit seems reasonable to have open or the abreviation doesn’t make sense to me. Anybody ever had this problem? Advice? Trying kill -9 on random shit could get interesting trying to figure it out …