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Tuesday 18 Mar 2008

Light fuse, and get away!

11 comments Og | Uncategorized

11 Responses to “Light fuse, and get away!”

1. on 19 Mar 2008 at 5:38 am   mlah
   
   

   excellent! i am a mac sysadmin. i do not own one. pc.

2. on 19 Mar 2008 at 8:12 am   og
   
   

   I feel your pain, Mlah.

   It’s a tool. Sheesh. Use the one you like. I’m amazed by the theological nature people associate with computers.

3. on 19 Mar 2008 at 9:32 am   jimmyb
   
   

   My, my it gets heated fast on that topic.

   You’d almost think those Mac people were Ron Paul supporters or something… ;)

   BTW, I’m PC all the way, but I hate Vista.

4. on 19 Mar 2008 at 9:57 am   og
   
   

   I hate Vista.

   Who doesn’t?

5. on 19 Mar 2008 at 10:52 am   jimmyb
   
   

   Good point.

6. on 19 Mar 2008 at 11:18 am   jimmyb
   
   

   And speaking of Macs – your tax dollars at work:

   http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/14047

7. on 19 Mar 2008 at 7:00 pm   Guy S
   
   

   Methinks Vista would be (if he had half a brain) Jobs window (no pun intended) of opportunity to cross port OSX for “windows based” machines. He would make a killing. This would also be true for the major Linux distros out there. It is not for naught that Vista is called ME 2.

8. on 20 Mar 2008 at 4:55 pm   Sigivald
   
   

   Og: I don’t hate Vista. I think it’s just fine on my PC at home, next to my iMac and my unix server.

   I don’t see what the problem is, other than people blaming their hardware vendor’s incompetence in making drivers on Microsoft.

   I’ve seen zero problems with drivers on new hardware these days; every complaint I’ve seen has been for ancient hardware or right after Vista was released.

   (The other two Vista complaints I’ve seen are related;

   A) “it doesn’t act exactly like XP”, to which I reply “well, XP wasn’t 2K, 2K wasn’t NT, and NT wasn’t 3.11. You lived then, buck up and move on.”

   and

   B) “UAC is annoying”, to which I reply “so turn it off”.)

   Guy: Uh. Hate to break this to you, but OSX already runs on Intel-based PCs; Macs these days are almost identical to PCs, except for having the newer EFI firmware rather than old PC BIOS.

   People have hacked OSX to run on normal PCs very nearly since the first public x86 releases.

   Jobs hasn’t released a plain-PC port because that would be suicidally stupid for Apple, which is a hardware company.

   (And Linux? To “replace windows”? Hah. Oh, wait. You were serious.)

   Vista’s an improvement on XP, architecturally*, and not comparable to ME in any way, so anyone calling it “ME2”, well, doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about, or is using the term in such a loose way as to be meaningless.

   * Yay, user-mode drivers!

9. on 20 Mar 2008 at 9:07 pm   og
   
   

   Mweh. Haven’t seen a good reason yet to switch, or upgrade. When I do, I may, but everything I hear about vista (when you tax it, specifically) is less than optimal.

10. on 20 Mar 2008 at 9:12 pm   MunDane
    
    

    Apple Board of Directors has Albert Gore…microsoft wins!

11. on 22 Mar 2008 at 3:36 pm   Guy S
    
    

    Sig, I know it runs on Intel based machines (if I wasn’t clear I apologize), as the newest from apple have intel inside. To the best of my (admittedly limited) knowledge, OSX will not run on your (originally) Windows based machines, at least not until you do some work with emulators. That also begs the questions about Apple licensing agreements if you don’t have mac hardware running the apple OS.

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