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| Saturday, November 1, 2003 |
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Tech support 
| | I'm moving my wife from her old G3/400 Lombard laptop to my old G4/500 TiBook laptop. A couple quick questions for which I don't know the answers: |
| | 1) How do I change the name of the user directory, as well as the prime user name? I don't want to create a new user, or a new directory name for that user's directory.I want to change the name of the main user and the user's directory from mine to hers. I think I know how do do it at a command line level, but I think I know just enough to be dangerous there. |
| | 2) Is it worth trying to put OS X on the Lombard? It only has a 6GB drive, though it does have plenty of RAM. I'm especially concerned about losing the ability to use the Farallon wireless card, which has been working fine under OS 9.2. Not sure it will work under OS X. Stuff like this encourages me about playing DVDs, but I'm not sure about some of the other functions, especially those not supported by Apple. (Not sure anything will work, actually. The machine has been extremely flaky lately, which is one motivation for going to OS X.) |
| | [Later...] Not clear if our wi-fi card is among those supported here by Proxim under OS X. Right now the card is in the machine, and the machine is busy copying files in very slow motion to an external drive. |
| | 3) If I do put OS X on the thing, will Panther install directly, or will I need to build it from OS X 10.0 on up? (Not sure I have the CDs for that.) |
| | I'm sure the answers are around somewhere, but I've wasted a lot of time looking for them, and I'm thinking one of ya'll might have the answers. Thanks. |
One creator at a time
| | Book Publishers are the latest incumbent industry to suffer the Electronic Tsunami. Will they learn anything from the internet? Probably not. |
| | The landscape of information is changing. The wreckage is apparent. How will we rebuild? |
| | I think we learn to rebuild individually. Each writer. Each artist. Each retailer. Each customer. Each intermediary. We learn how networked markets work, and we take advantage of the opportunities. |
| | I know that sounds vague, but it's really quite specific. Either you are engaged, as an individual, in what your market is all about; or you leave it up to whatever Powers That Be want to do, with or without you. If you're a bigtime author or recording artist or movie star, you can leave matters up to your publisher, your label, your studio or publicity agent. If you're one of the rest of us who has benefitted somewhat less by the industrial "content" manufacturing and distribution system — the star-making machinery Joni Mitchell sang about — you're on your own. |
| | Just 'cuz it's new water doesn't mean you can't learn how to swim in it. In fact, the networked world is one where you get to make your own water. The big industries aren't in charge here, much as they like to think they are, or should be. This is the People's Market. Nothing communist about it, either; because the Networked World loves to support markets, commerce, transaction, conversation, relationship, opportunity, enterprise and fun — all those qualities that make real markets the real cradle of real civilization. |
| | In fact, this is the chance that artists finally get to make markets the way they'd like. To love business, even. Trust me, you can do it. |
| | Just make your business your business. |
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