!@#$!@$@#%@# $^%$^#$&#%^#$ MAC !@#$%!

[mdlbear]

Stupid goddamn Mac filesystem is secretly case insensitive. If you have a directory called Tracks and a file called tracks, rsync complains about not being able to delete the directory when it goes to transfer the file. THIS IS JUST FSCKING WRONG!

The Mac may have Unix in its distant ancestry, but it is not Unix. When I get back from this trip I'm ordering a real computer.

Given a strong desire to be able to collaborate cross-platform, I'm probably going to have to make an ugly hack to work around this stupidity. That doesn't mean I have to like it, and it doesn't mean I'm not going to get bitten in the arse by it somewhere else.

In other news, the ribbons we had overnighted seem to have gone astray; it was apparently delivered to a nonexistant address in another city. Their tracking site doesn't say what address it was actually addressed to, so it's impossible to tell why it went astray. Remind me never to have things shipped by FedEx.

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[mdlbear]

The Lenovo X series is very high on my list; budget is whatever I can persuade my boss that I can get away with. A new machine on my own budget is out of the question this year, though the XO will go a long way toward filling in the hole.

I could conceivably cobble something together with the XO in tablet mode, my Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard, and an external NAS/server, and spend work money on a new desktop. Or I could go with a Lenovo and use it as a desktop replacement, though I think it might be a little lightweight for that.