I have been preparing an involved post about vacuum cleaners and fluid dynamics. One broke, so I fixed the other, and then we got seriously curious about which one was really better... and then someone used a pressure guage and now I'm all wrapped up in Poiseuille equation (the textbook I have dates from the 1950's, references the manhattan project numerous times, and uses units that are hard for a modern mind to appreciate).
It was about this time that Google informed me that the browser on the mac was no longer supported for one of their products. The Mac, a Dual 1 Ghz G4, is almost 10 years old. It's underlaying architecture (USB 1, ATA-66, AGP 4x, PC-133 ram, it even has a SCSI card) is closer to 11 or 12. It keeps failing to fail. However, it is getting increasingly hard to keep up to date software installed.
Camino appears to be the lastest casualty. The mozilla project no longer supports embedding the gecko engine in other browsers. The number of technologies modern browsers are now trying to leverage in order to make web apps feel like real applications are many, WebGl and GPU compositing, HTML5, H.264 video decoding, fast javascript interpetation. It's hard to make all that modular.
Of course, the underlaying issue of if/when/how to replace the machine go un-answered. For doing actual work, it still is fine. The needs of analyzing experimental field data just haven't kept up with the shocking amount of computational powere available to the average dude.
Although, I do have to admit a certain desire to use Adobe Lightroom to manage and edit photos, something the current machine just can't muster...
Life goes on.
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