Kim Bach . Org

I’m having some success in terms of business, right now, but Thursday I got carried away and went into serious nerd mode, after visiting a potential client that had a sweet Mac set-up, an entire professional sound studio.

I connected my PowerBook to the network, and minutes later I was streaming my newly purchased Clotaire K album over iTunes to the studio monitors.

It’s so great to meet other dedicated Mac users, it’s more like a brotherhood.

I really want to go out and get my self a MIDI keyboard now.

The interesting thing was that I was lugging my Mac mini with me, wanting to suggest that my customer get one to use as a file server, I had no idea that they already had two Macs.

This customer is ripe for switching. The Macs are used in the music studios, but all the other pcs they have are Windows based, a classical example of the popular belief that Macs are only good for creative work. My strategy will be to start switching them away from using Outlook.

After showing the studio guy Chicken of the VNC and the VNC support build into Mac OS X Tiger, he went out and activated it on their other Mac and lo and behold it showed up in Bonjour.

Activating the VNC server in Mac OS X is really, really simple:
Systempreferences/Sharing/Apple Remote Desktop. Choose “Accesscontorl” and “Allow VNC clients to control the screen”. Remember to protect the VNC server with a password, and to activate the users that should be allowed to use VNC.

I also showed him our macwiki development site, and he was quite impressed, I even updated the site with some information, for instance he pointed me to the Danish communities for sound professionals Lydmaskinen and logicforum.dk, and the free iCal hosting service iCalX.

But so far I’ve gotten two paying customers that use Macs this year, not bad.

Unfortunately being in “Mac nerd mode” like that can have some serious side-effects on me, check the categories for this post for hints…

You can get carried away by the love for the platform, and it actually resulted in “some fallout” later that night. Luckily I took a “chill-pill” (too late maybe – I’m so sorry that I might have hurt someone in the process – but I feel that I’m in control of my life, unlike last year).

Translated from an article featured in Vejle Amts Folkeblad 23-Apr-2005

The police is pleading with children and adolescents, who have received expensive gifts, to return them to the Vejle police station.

By Mie Sparre,

The parents of a couple of children alerted the SSP department (co-operation between school, parents and the police that works to prevent youth crime) of Vejle police, because they had discovered that their sons suddenly had a laptop worth 12-13,000 kroner, and a brand new MP3 player, in their possession. The boys claimed that they had received the gifts from a strange man who had been standing at Nørretorv in Vejle, outside McDonald’s and that he gave computers, MP3-players and other expensive electronic gadgets away to the accidental passers by.

This sounded just a little far-fetched, but after some investigation the police has discovered that the boys were indeed right. It has also been established who the strange man was.

It has turned out, that the man is a formerly successful businessman who has been hit by mental illness, that for instance had manifested itself in the form of extreme generosity. It is believed that the man had purchased several computers of the Amitech brand, and that he had planned to donate them away.

Follow your conscience

The man has now been committed for treatment, and the expensive gifts has, through the intervention of the police, been returned to his family.

But should other parents experience that their son or daughter suddenly is listening to music from a brand new MP3 player or is surfing the net on a fancy laptop, the items could come from the same incidence. And detective Peter Krogh, Vejle Police, urges that you follow your conscience and deliver the goods back.

Gifts can be delivered to the guard at the Vejle Police Station, Skolegade.

2005 most certainly was a roller-coaster ride, I’ve renewed friendships, found new and most certainly discovered who my true friends are. I’m really privileged to have such good friends, and I’d like to thank all of you for being so supportive. Pad yourself on your shoulder, you know who you are.

Now I’m looking forward to 2006 with optimism, and I think that it will be a great year where I after a long period of reflection, will be able to act out my potential.

Hej Kim

Hmm, skal man være bekymret når du netop skriver at du ikke er manisk… hmm, den kan jeg så tykke lidt på

Har vi en kandidat til BZ Kafka 2005 – Vejle Gågade Mandag morgen den 23-05-2005 kl. 04:00 og på TDC Hotspot hos McDonalds.

Venlig hilsen
Kim

PS: Jeg er IKKE manisk, kan bare ikke sove – har tusinde millioner tanker i hovedet…Det der ligner en antenne er en lygtepæl, men den skal da være en WiMAX antenne…Kan vi ikke få Vejle til at blive WiMAX test center, det vil være for fedt, LEGO flytter til Kina samtidig med at vi begynder at bygge WiMAX land ha ha ha FJOLSER!

Vi kan altså ikke blive ved med at mødes på den måde, det er da ufatteligt. Et eller andet siger mig at der ER en plan.

Venlig hilsen

Kim

ps. Er jeg ved at blive manisk igen? Har IKKE helt opgivet at høre den keynote den 6-6 i SF.
pps. Den PowerBook jeg får til overs…Hvad skal der ske med den?
ppps. Du har vel fået afsat den PSP du havde til overs?

hej Kim

Hæ hæ, yep – doomed to meet

ad PS: du kan vel høre den på nettet!
ad PPS: vil stadig gerne købe den – skal bare finde en fair pris
ad PPPS: nej, ikke endnu – fik et bud igår, men vil lige checke med dig først. Så hvad vil du?

Hygge og pas på dig selv, min ven!

Åbenbart…
ad ad PS eller SJKN…Det er IKKE helt det samme, jeg ville gerne sidde i et rum kun omgivet af god karma (ene Macister) Oplevede det næsten i går i toget, Apple breder sig!!! 3 Macs inden for BT afstand.
ad ad PPS eller PB12″…Fair pris, hmm, den er jo gammel.
ad ad PPPS eller PSP…Hvad taler vi sådan cirka, det er jo uden SW eller hur. Jeg har nok IKKE helt så meget brug for den som en HC
gamer, men jeg var meget opmuntret over hvor god jeg var til WipeOut på den platform, der føles MERE rigtigt at game på den måde. Hvad er ellers dine erfaringer.

ad PS. Der er MEGET mindre end 6 graders separation i DK. Jeg får brug for et par WiMAX antenner til mig. Vi skal lukke SMS!!! Jeg forestiller mig egentlig nogle kortbølge sendere og modtagere til 50kr stykket med tastatur, er det sådan RIM virker? Det var noget i den stil Palm brugte til deres Palm VII.

Venlig hilsen

Kim

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