Flirting With Mac OS X

An anonymous reader wrote to us with an article on Byte from Moshe Bar about flirting with using OS X. Taco and I are both strongly considering beginning to use OS X as a primary laptops - anyone else looking at doing this? And anyone from Apple that can get me a good price on super TiBooks? *grin*

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I wish i knew someone...

[n3k5]

I wish i knew someone who bought an OS X box recently so I could have a story posted on Slashdot...

Switching would be nice if....

[dogeatshouse]

there was an IP based Novell client available that actually worked. We have lots of users where I work, who are devoted Apple and Unix junkies... Problem is that we no longer run IPX and prosofteng's IP client (including the latest beta) has not worked with our Novell 5.x servers. Has ANYONE been able to make the OS X IP client work? It won't even browse the network for available trees here.

What happened to World New York

[acomj]

This is completely off topics
but I still miss that site...
It reminded me of NY since I've moved away.

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[Derleth]

10 months ago I used Novell Netware on a 286 at my home office, where I served goatse.cx images to the poor, underprivileged trolls barely making it on Slashdot. I wanted a system I could take with me, to keep current on the latest link-munging techniques and image URLs.

None of the Windows laptops cut it with battery life or monitor durability (they tended to commit suicide after the fifth spreadeagled rectum). Worse, none of them could play the video of Ballmer hopping around like a cracked-up horny toad at a sufficient volume to frighten all the small children on a given flight.

So I looked at the iBook. I broke out my mad money, saved over the years from selling bumfight videos online, and bought the 1600Mhz DVD-ROM liquid-nitrogen-cooled iZilla. I had enough left over to buy the optional iHover attachment to prevent it from crushing my legs. I use it everywhere! Showing the finest in Internet goat-pr0n to those who intend to eat veal at restaurants, giving poor premeds a free view of the inside of the colon at med schools, and giving small children nightmares about drugged-up CEOs chasing them down and crushing them, my iBook is there! Its minature keys are perfectly sized for jizim removal, and its one-button mouse is perfect for one-handed Internet surfing.

Of course, I use nothing but OS X on the beast (up the RAM to at least 1200 Megs) and it's great. Proper terminal window to r00t other peoples' servers, Outlook-compliant email client for vectoring all the latest worms, 802.11b card for warwalking around looking for chalk, and best of all, unlike any other OS in the known Universe, IT JUST WORKS.

I've definately reached the point where I no longer want to have all my machines as play toys - the iBook is a workhorse and just keeps on slogging. Mmmm... horse.

My Name's Steve Jobs ... NO! ... it's ... Snurb ... and I'm a network administrator and CEO of ... NO! ... and ... uh ... al-Quaeda operative ... yeah, that's the ticket!