Yeah, I hear good things about fedora, suse and mandrake too, but in 2003 it just didn't work for me.
The Siemens caused troubles, but nothing that couldn't be solved. The problem was with the networking connectivity at one certain customer where they had a strange networking environment. I had to manually alter all kinds of settings to make my Linux machine get on the network. That in itself was difficult enough, but also the fact that the networking environment was quite volatile in itself, like DHCP operating now-and-then and more of those things (yeah, Windows environment... ) it became like living hell: changing settings 6 times a day...
It created the situation where I arrived at the customer while already are short on time. Then I had to make a decision: try to get my Linux machine on the network and thereby wasting 20-40 minutes, while succes was not ensured, despite a lot of help and support from the IT people!!! Or just use another computer and work from a browser, meaning: having half the tools I need and a slower working environment....
Apple solved it al.
First of all it has a great 'profiles' tool. No wasting time on changing settings... just altering profiles. Second, since it is pretty much made for dummies, even in case of problems I can solve a lot of things myself, without the need of herassing already overworked IT-people....
And on top of that I have got 6 hours of juice in my battery and a Cool Shtick.;)
Went to Linux/Unix on a new x86 notebook and tried a few Linux distro's and FreeBSD, but each of them had a few things that really annoyed me. Some didn't work well with the hardware of my Siemens notebook, but most of the time it were just those small things you miss, that on a Mac just work.
What I especially didn't like were those "Let me fix it for you" events. Goodwilling Unix cracks that absolutely wanted me to adore my Open Source system. "It will take about five minutes... get yourself a cup of coffee and when you get back it works." Too bad they never told me that we were talking about a dimension in which a minute lasts half a day and that the cup of coffee was to be picked up in Colombia.... In the end, people started taking my machine home, in order to fix it. Yes, support in the Open Source community really rocks. No bad word about that, but a usable machine never really materialized...
First of all, I'm not a Unix geek. I learn fast, but it clearly wasn't fast enough. I travel with my computer and I found it h*ll to make the thing work on all different networks I must logon, using all diferent settings... in the end I was just glad when I was able to browse the internet and 'webmail' became my best friend... aaaaaw.
Second of all, I don't like it to mess with my OS each day. I did like the terminal though.:)
Third: it was clearly a bad choice to put Linux/Unix on a productionmachine of someone not willing to mess with an OS each day. I should have put it on a spare...
After six months of really hard trying, reading manuals, raiding forums and bothering all kind of Unix specialists in my addressbook I gave up and bought a new Powerbook with OS X and put all Linux distri boxes in my cupboard for 'later':)
I hope for your sake, that you have better control of your bloodpressure than I have and that the distro's have become a whole lot better since Q1 and Q2 of 2003.
Looking from the bright side: the whole experience made me rediscover the ease of use of my Mac, thought me how to find my way in OS X using the terminal... and got me an alumium Powerbook:)
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Oh, nice device...;)
Strange concept though: made for durability (waterproof and rugged) in the field. Picking Windows Mobile as OS doesn't make sense then, does it?
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Yeah, bring on XUL.... especially when talking about a small footprint... oi, let's wait till those memory stick duo's come out with sufficient storage for all them libraries... till then I will surf the web with my Symbian powered device using Opera.... lean, mean and complete... oh, and I 'only' have 32Mb's of internal mem....
The return of Jews brings hatred because their bakery's won't serve non-jewish people. They just don't put up the sign 'non-Jews not allowed', but it does happen today. You don't believe me? Check Antwerpen, Belgium?
I was there recently and the situation scared me. I suddenly understood why the Belgians are voting party's that say:
- we will make them sell us bread
or
- we will kick them out
Hi Steve,
I'm from Holland... yes, the very nation that in 1777 fired the first official salute at an American frigate... thereby we OFFICIALLY were the FIRST country to recognize the independent state of America.
Let's see the libaration in 1945 as payback. Okay?
But let me tell you... you liberated us for the same reason as we helped Washington arm his people to kick the English out: we were unable to trade in English territory, so better help someone else in power...
That was what America was doing in Europe... both in WW1 as in WW2 (and Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Honduras, and you name 'm....
No problem with that, but let's not make a glorious story about it. Okay?
You are right about them bureaucrats and procedures... terrible. But can you imagine what it says about the US if such a bureaucratic region is suprassing the US on all fronts????
Yeah, that would be a great move, force the Europeans into hating America too.. you know what will happen? Europe will stop transporting American stuff around the globe (check who is doing logistics on Pepsi, Coke, Levi's, Nike and plenty of other things).... come on....
Agree... talk to a German about it in reference to the 2nd World War... eg the MP44 vs the AK47 thing... keep things simple, en masse and pay with blood. Don't see why they wouldn't be doing that again.... especially since Mr. Putin converted Russia already to this right winged dictatorship. He has everything in place and probably is looking for money to pay for it all. Right now he is talking to Esa to bring Europeans (probably meaning Germans and French) up to stay there for six months. I bet ESA is willing to put down a lot of money for a nice arrangement.
Problem for the US is that the don't have a Mr. Space anymore. After the era 'Werner von B' the progress in US space programs has been limited to one (brilliant) craft: the shuttle. And that only thanks to a cold war.
Right now, America needs an enemy to justify huge spendings. A bunch of (insophisticated but effective) Russian craft could just produce the argument competive America is looking for.
And America and cooperation? Only a serious option if there isn't enough money for them to do it themselves. Look at the biotech. For years America acted alone, but since Bush axxed budgets they are finally willing to cooperate, if only not to fall behind....
At uni in 1992 (studying the art of user-interfaces) we had to do a multimedia project. Everyone student fought for one of the few SG computers, others took there own macs and quite a few chose one of those Digital i386's..... We took my Amiga 4000 with some tools: scala, lightwave, toaster.
Now for the real fun: for presentation purposes everyone was running around with great stacks of material and plugging mighty sets of cabels and stuff. Preperation times of 45 minutes per event were pretty normal. Everything just to show a few wacky 3D balls jumping around a screen or something similar. And the crowd went wild....
We didn't do anything in preperation for the presentation. In an old blue bag, we just brought in an Amiga 600 (the tiny one, with internal HD) and when we were called to do our 'project', we took it out of the bag, connected it there and then to there standard TV set, including the standard classroom audio system. We switched it on, booted the OS and ran our work: 3d graphics (self-made!), nice effects, video, animation and wild 16 bit stereo sound (rave-tune). We knocked everyone off their feet, including those with their SG material and their high-end Mac's.
It were the days that the Amiga simply didn't have an any competition, especially taken the 'pricing' aspect in mind.
Too bad that the real enemy was to be found inside the company selling them....
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Yeah, I hear good things about fedora, suse and mandrake too, but in 2003 it just didn't work for me.
...
;)
The Siemens caused troubles, but nothing that couldn't be solved. The problem was with the networking connectivity at one certain customer where they had a strange networking environment. I had to manually alter all kinds of settings to make my Linux machine get on the network. That in itself was difficult enough, but also the fact that the networking environment was quite volatile in itself, like DHCP operating now-and-then and more of those things (yeah, Windows environment... ) it became like living hell: changing settings 6 times a day
It created the situation where I arrived at the customer while already are short on time. Then I had to make a decision: try to get my Linux machine on the network and thereby wasting 20-40 minutes, while succes was not ensured, despite a lot of help and support from the IT people!!! Or just use another computer and work from a browser, meaning: having half the tools I need and a slower working environment....
Apple solved it al. First of all it has a great 'profiles' tool. No wasting time on changing settings... just altering profiles. Second, since it is pretty much made for dummies, even in case of problems I can solve a lot of things myself, without the need of herassing already overworked IT-people....
And on top of that I have got 6 hours of juice in my battery and a Cool Shtick.
Went to Linux/Unix on a new x86 notebook and tried a few Linux distro's and FreeBSD, but each of them had a few things that really annoyed me. Some didn't work well with the hardware of my Siemens notebook, but most of the time it were just those small things you miss, that on a Mac just work.
... get yourself a cup of coffee and when you get back it works." Too bad they never told me that we were talking about a dimension in which a minute lasts half a day and that the cup of coffee was to be picked up in Colombia .... In the end, people started taking my machine home, in order to fix it. Yes, support in the Open Source community really rocks. No bad word about that, but a usable machine never really materialized ...
:)
:)
... and got me an alumium Powerbook :)
What I especially didn't like were those "Let me fix it for you" events. Goodwilling Unix cracks that absolutely wanted me to adore my Open Source system. "It will take about five minutes
First of all, I'm not a Unix geek. I learn fast, but it clearly wasn't fast enough. I travel with my computer and I found it h*ll to make the thing work on all different networks I must logon, using all diferent settings... in the end I was just glad when I was able to browse the internet and 'webmail' became my best friend... aaaaaw.
Second of all, I don't like it to mess with my OS each day. I did like the terminal though.
Third: it was clearly a bad choice to put Linux/Unix on a productionmachine of someone not willing to mess with an OS each day. I should have put it on a spare...
After six months of really hard trying, reading manuals, raiding forums and bothering all kind of Unix specialists in my addressbook I gave up and bought a new Powerbook with OS X and put all Linux distri boxes in my cupboard for 'later'
I hope for your sake, that you have better control of your bloodpressure than I have and that the distro's have become a whole lot better since Q1 and Q2 of 2003.
Looking from the bright side: the whole experience made me rediscover the ease of use of my Mac, thought me how to find my way in OS X using the terminal
Oh, nice device ... ;)
Strange concept though: made for durability (waterproof and rugged) in the field. Picking Windows Mobile as OS doesn't make sense then, does it?
Yeah, bring on XUL .... especially when talking about a small footprint... oi, let's wait till those memory stick duo's come out with sufficient storage for all them libraries... till then I will surf the web with my Symbian powered device using Opera.... lean, mean and complete ... oh, and I 'only' have 32Mb's of internal mem....
The Russians indeed did a lot more... for one thing: Stalin didn't stop (or wasn't made to stop) at 6.000.000 jews.... ahum....
The return of Jews brings hatred because their bakery's won't serve non-jewish people. They just don't put up the sign 'non-Jews not allowed', but it does happen today. You don't believe me? Check Antwerpen, Belgium?
I was there recently and the situation scared me. I suddenly understood why the Belgians are voting party's that say: - we will make them sell us bread or - we will kick them out
aaaaawwww
Hi Steve, I'm from Holland ... yes, the very nation that in 1777 fired the first official salute at an American frigate... thereby we OFFICIALLY were the FIRST country to recognize the independent state of America.
Let's see the libaration in 1945 as payback. Okay?
But let me tell you... you liberated us for the same reason as we helped Washington arm his people to kick the English out: we were unable to trade in English territory, so better help someone else in power...
That was what America was doing in Europe... both in WW1 as in WW2 (and Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Honduras, and you name 'm....
No problem with that, but let's not make a glorious story about it. Okay?
You are right about them bureaucrats and procedures ... terrible. But can you imagine what it says about the US if such a bureaucratic region is suprassing the US on all fronts????
Yeah, that would be a great move, force the Europeans into hating America too .. you know what will happen? Europe will stop transporting American stuff around the globe (check who is doing logistics on Pepsi, Coke, Levi's, Nike and plenty of other things).... come on....
Agree... talk to a German about it in reference to the 2nd World War... eg the MP44 vs the AK47 thing ... keep things simple, en masse and pay with blood. Don't see why they wouldn't be doing that again .... especially since Mr. Putin converted Russia already to this right winged dictatorship. He has everything in place and probably is looking for money to pay for it all. Right now he is talking to Esa to bring Europeans (probably meaning Germans and French) up to stay there for six months. I bet ESA is willing to put down a lot of money for a nice arrangement.
Problem for the US is that the don't have a Mr. Space anymore. After the era 'Werner von B' the progress in US space programs has been limited to one (brilliant) craft: the shuttle. And that only thanks to a cold war.
Right now, America needs an enemy to justify huge spendings. A bunch of (insophisticated but effective) Russian craft could just produce the argument competive America is looking for.
And America and cooperation? Only a serious option if there isn't enough money for them to do it themselves. Look at the biotech. For years America acted alone, but since Bush axxed budgets they are finally willing to cooperate, if only not to fall behind....
At uni in 1992 (studying the art of user-interfaces) we had to do a multimedia project. Everyone student fought for one of the few SG computers, others took there own macs and quite a few chose one of those Digital i386's..... We took my Amiga 4000 with some tools: scala, lightwave, toaster. ....
Now for the real fun: for presentation purposes everyone was running around with great stacks of material and plugging mighty sets of cabels and stuff. Preperation times of 45 minutes per event were pretty normal. Everything just to show a few wacky 3D balls jumping around a screen or something similar. And the crowd went wild....
We didn't do anything in preperation for the presentation. In an old blue bag, we just brought in an Amiga 600 (the tiny one, with internal HD) and when we were called to do our 'project', we took it out of the bag, connected it there and then to there standard TV set, including the standard classroom audio system. We switched it on, booted the OS and ran our work: 3d graphics (self-made!), nice effects, video, animation and wild 16 bit stereo sound (rave-tune). We knocked everyone off their feet, including those with their SG material and their high-end Mac's.
It were the days that the Amiga simply didn't have an any competition, especially taken the 'pricing' aspect in mind. Too bad that the real enemy was to be found inside the company selling them