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The Dell arrived over a week ago but it’s configured with 4 partitions and loaded with bloatware, very annoying. I’m thinking of sending it back! I’ve been spoiled by my MacBook Pro. I can’t wait to see what Stevey launches before Christmas, rumors are that new MacBooks are coming.

I just sold my Mac Mini yesterday to a bass player in Long Beach. He’s pretty stoked, and he got a great deal. I threw in a keyboard, mouse and CRT monitor so he got a whole system for $350.

And as far as the Dell E1505 notebook, I’ve finally configured it to work better and faster, especially setting up XP to work without a paging file, which really speeds up performance with 2GB of RAM available. Still, it has 4 partitions: 2 for files, 1 for the MediaDirect feratures, which don’t work anyways, and another for restoring back to the original Windows settings that shipped with it. I’ll just wipe the hard drive clean when Vista comes out and rebuild it from scratch then. In the meantime it seems to be working well, but I really wish it had DVI-output like my MacBook Pro, it’s really sharp when I connect it to my 22″ Samsung LCD.

Overall, I like my MacBook Pro better. I have Windows 2003 server running in Parallels in the MBP and it runs Windows faster than my Dell, mainly because it has a 7200 RPM disk drive, I just wish it was > 100GB. My Dell’s HDD is 160GB but if I had stuck with Dell’s original configuration I’d only have 100GB of usable space! Lame, now I see why HP is taking away market share from Dell. I think HP’s selling of AMD-based servers, a product line Dell has dragged their feet with, has helped too though, but I digress.

These are pretty hilarious! Some of my favorites are

• JAVA - After importing java.awt.right.foot.* and java.awt.gun.right.hand.*, and writing the classes and methods of those classes needed, you’ve forgotten what the hell you’re doing.
• Ruby - Your foot is ready to be shot in roughly five minutes, but you just can’t find anywhere to shoot it.
• PHP - You shoot yourself in the foot with a gun made with pieces from 300 other guns.
• ASP.NET - Find a gun, it falls apart. Put it back together, it falls apart again. You try using the .GUN Framework, it falls apart. You stab yourself in the foot instead.
• SQL - SELECT @ammo:=bullet FROM gun WHERE trigger = ‘PULLED’;
  INSERT INTO leg (foot) VALUES (@ammo);
• Perl - You shoot yourself in the foot, but nobody can understand how you did it. Six months later, neither can you.
• Visual Basic - You’ll shoot yourself in the foot, but you’ll have so much fun doing it that you won’t care.
• Python - You try to shoot yourself in the foot but you just keep hitting the whitespace between your toes.