October 24, 2003
Back on the Mac
I'm back on the Mac because Mozilla refused to behave (screwed up fonts making pages unreadable, and Firebird refuses to open my bookmarks).
It's a learning curve. Today I learnt how to set JAVA_HOME so that Java applications run properly. I also learnt that it takes 26 minutes and 39 seconds to build a clean copy of Cocoon 2.1 from CVS on an iBook. I'm definitely going to need the extra power of the Powerbook!
I also just had a very retro experience, using an image editor I haven't used since 1992. My first real experience of Macs was when I started my computing degree - most of the labs were running Mac LCII computers. It's strange that progress means I'm back where I started...
Posted by savs at October 24, 2003 2:37 PM