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[jkOnTheRun] jkOnTheRun review- the JVC Interlink XP741 sub-notebook: The XP741 has an unusual battery arrangement that bears some discussion.  There is an internal battery (fixed) that JVC claims has a 2 hour battery life.  In the real world I usually got about an hour and a half using just the internal battery.  This is not a problem, however, because JVC also includes the "standard" battery, which is a tube shaped battery that clips onto the back of the XP741.  The battery is quite small so it doesn't add a lot of size or weight to the notebook, so I just left it attached all the time.  The JVC will auto switch between batteries as needed for both running and charging.  Total run time with both batteries in action was over 5 hours which is quite acceptable for a sub-notebook computer.  JVC also has an extended battery available which is bulkier and heavier, but I did not have one at my disposal for this evaluation.  A nice touch is the LED indicators JVC put on the front of the opened XP741 that shows you which of the two batteries is currently powering the device.

[BLOG TO COMM] ROCKABILLY RAM-BUNK-SHUH! Gotta admit that I neve...: I guess Billy and Miriam were hoping that the pic of Mamie Van Doren and some toothless chimp onna cover would reel in the suckers, er, rockabilly fans in so why bother (as for me, I can take or leave Mamie, but that chimpanzee...). Still, B&M must be commended for gathering up this set of previously unissued rockabilly demos taken from the original rare acetates featuring tuneage from such better-known (at least in such circles) "practitioners of the form" as Benny Joy and Ral Donner not to mention the such soon-NOT-to-be obscurities as Jimmy Reagan and Ronnie Clark who do the hillybilly thing even rawer than anyone but the standard Norton Catalog maniac would have believed. Big surprise here's the inclusion of the first ever recording that future surf magnate Gary Usher made, he doing the primitive rock thing long before his discovery of baggies! Best of all, this ain't the well-crafted and molded rockabilly music that seemed to represent the form for the more "adventerous" of the new wave gang back in 1982 but the hard-edged, rough-sounding real deal that for some strange reasons made the heavy-makeup girls of the day who caked more of the pancake on'n Tina Louise does go "ewwwwwwwww!" Great spazz (bordering on early garage/punk secretions dating from about the same stratum) abounds here, and personally I wouldn't be surprised if a good deal of you readers end up shunning the sound because it wobbles a crazy line worse than Ken Shimamoto on an all-night bender!

 [Toomuchsexy.org] TooMuchSexy.blog - Macworld San Francisco 2005: I’ve kept two G4s at home. One that I work on.  The other is basically stripped down to the bone and I use it for parts and as a backup machine. With the iMac Mini, I’m parting out what’s left of that machine and just buying one of the iMac Minis to use as a backup machine and possibly a media server.

 [Toomuchsexy.org] TooMuchSexy.blog - Macworld San Francisco 2005: I’ve kept two G4s at home. One that I work on.  The other is basically stripped down to the bone and I use it for parts and as a backup machine. With the iMac Mini, I’m parting out what’s left of that machine and just buying one of the iMac Minis to use as a backup machine and possibly a media server.

 [Toomuchsexy.org] TooMuchSexy.blog - Macworld San Francisco 2005: I’ve kept two G4s at home. One that I work on.  The other is basically stripped down to the bone and I use it for parts and as a backup machine. With the iMac Mini, I’m parting out what’s left of that machine and just buying one of the iMac Minis to use as a backup machine and possibly a media server.

 [Toomuchsexy.org] TooMuchSexy.blog - Eloisa to Abelard: One that I work on.  The other is basically stripped down to the bone and I use it for parts and as a backup machine. With the iMac Mini, I’m parting out what’s left of that machine and just buying one of the iMac Minis to use as a backup machine and possibly a media server.

[Macmini.blogspot.com] Mac mini blog: Apples to Apples: also a little point that maybe you can clear up for me...haveing used both PCs and Mac on a daily basis for over 15 years now ;)...why does Mac OS X need a 2-6GB scratch disk...I thought Windows 560MB one was redikulous...but this is totally absUrd...especially with the mac's at work running 4800 or 5200 RPM drives...when working on a typical 300MB photoshop file the Mac OS INSISTS on using the slow OS residant drive even tough I've got PShop set up to use a faster 7200RPM drive for scratch...this causes the Mac to freeze for several minutes...usually just before I save a major change...the other thing about it which causes problems...is the fact that the OS doesn't really report the scratch space untill it's too late to do anything about it...so in general you have to keep at least 2GB free on your drive...if you don't..if OS X runs out of space it starts throwing things away like system preferances *i've reloaded my mail prefs and boxes 3 times now* in a seemingly random order...also perplexing me since a pref file is like what...60k at most :/...i've been able to minimize the scratch disk windows uses...it's a slimmer 100MB now...but I've not found a way to lock the Mac one to something small like that...and make it a visible file *like the windows one now* so I can at least get info on it to see if it's starting to bloat again...

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