Switch Different

x180 writes "Those goofy hackers over at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego this week have, in a spate of fun, put together a series of Switch ad spoofs for the geeky ones. Writes Rael Dornfest in his blog, 'You've no doubt seen Apple's fabulous Switch campaign commercials. But what of the others? The geeky ones. The scripters. The sysadmins in their server cages. The command-line jockeys. Those through whom the source flows openly.' See the stories of hackers chucking Emacs in favor of Vi, leaving Perl to explore Python, and leaving the familiar home of Unix to play with XP." These, of course, aren't the only switch parodies. Their numbers are Legion.

Comments

Re:Oh, and...

[scrod]

run an OS that doesn't have to search the entire hard drive after you move the target of a shortcut? Don't tempt me. I have plenty more.

Re:I'd switch to Apple / OSX Tomorrow...

[Verizon Guy]

Then again I married a woman from Thailand so my concept of beauty probably doesn't match the average american's.

Let me guess -- you were in one of those famous Bangkok brothels and realized that a cheap whore is probably the closest you'll ever come to female genitalia in your life, and said "let me get married while I have the chance." Right?

Does it work similar to those "Russian Brides for Sale" transactions on the web?

I indeed dream of a TiBook... with 3 buttons!

[Quietti]

The day Apple will adopt the 3-button mouse and copy/paste methods of X11 is when I will buy myself a Mac. Until that day, screw Apple; a single-button mouse or touch pad doesn't cut it.

Yes, I love Macs (I always have, ever since the first Classic in the 80's). No, until recently, I could never afford even second-hand ones. Now that I have the money to buy SGI stuff if I want, I still think that the 3-button X11 system should be standardized throughout the computer industry, on all OS platforms. Having Jobs listen to its users and release the eMac with a non-educational license would help too, for my home desktop. Since the TiBook doesn't support the 3-button X11 methoods, I'm checking out PC alternatives to use with OpenBSD on X11, instead.