Somewhat OT, but I find the Unix base to be quite handy often. The GUI is beutiful but someone has yet to make a GUI for useful functions like dynamically loading and unloading drivers. For example, when Wardriving, kismet which runs on linux, will put any Prism2 WLAN card into monitor mode. However, the dirver for airport cards doesn't use monitor mode, and so you have to wrtei your own driver and unlod the Apple80211 framework to load your own. If someone would build a GUI for things like sudo and distributed.net then more people would consider OS X because it is able to complete many UNIX command line function s under the GUI and escape from ugly shells. --Miaz
it is possible to get IRDa recievers for the mac (as in the keyspan digital media remote) but transmitters i am not sure.
someone i know uses a phone that uses a serial cable and then a serial to usb adapter to get on the net. there is also a cable from belkin that will turn certain phones into a normal phone jack for which you could use the iBook's internal modem.
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Somewhat OT, but I find the Unix base to be quite handy often. The GUI is beutiful but someone has yet to make a GUI for useful functions like dynamically loading and unloading drivers.
For example, when Wardriving, kismet which runs on linux, will put any Prism2 WLAN card into monitor mode. However, the dirver for airport cards doesn't use monitor mode, and so you have to wrtei your own driver and unlod the Apple80211 framework to load your own. If someone would build a GUI for things like sudo and distributed.net then more people would consider OS X because it is able to complete many UNIX command line function s under the GUI and escape from ugly shells.
--Miaz
it is possible to get IRDa recievers for the mac (as in the keyspan digital media remote) but transmitters i am not sure. someone i know uses a phone that uses a serial cable and then a serial to usb adapter to get on the net. there is also a cable from belkin that will turn certain phones into a normal phone jack for which you could use the iBook's internal modem.