As long as my young teenage friends' virii and other malware don't run on the intel-based mac boxen, I am still committed to my mac. In fact, I might be even more committed because...
switch to intel processors angers some mac loyalists.
mac market share is smaller
writing mac-specific virii is even less appealing
even fewer virii show up.
Sounds good to me.
Mike Jones
computer user since 1985.
mac user since 2004
I did most of my MS thesis and part of my PhD dissertation on sun workstations. They were righteous big iron at the time. But the thing that killed sun was that around 2001 you could buy a PC with linux and more processing power than a sun for much much less than a sun!
So that was it for me and sun. I thought they had gone the way of the atari or commador but apparently someone at sun discovered that people like laptops! Hopefully they will do other moderny things like say put a wireless card in a laptop!
PostFix crosslisted in hardware?
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The Book of Postfix
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Maybe I am just being picky, but it seems a little strange to crosslist a book on mail server/system/whatever software in the hardware section.
Let's review:
hardware = something you can kick when it breaks, or, kick to break it
software = the little 0's and 1's that live in hardware.
I have reached a similar state of nirvana. I decided this year to become operating system agnostic. I am also text editor, browswer, chat client and IDE agnostic. Being agnostic has its advantages. I don't have to get stressed during OS religious wars and I don't have to defend my choices to anyone.
And, by the way, I switched from linux and windows to a mac 1.5 years ago for the very same reason. Life is good in the smallest pie segment because nobody writes malware for us. But, since I am agnostic, I don't really care what other people do.
This was a bit of a surprise. After reading all the/. articles on this topic of late, I'd convinced myself that OSS developers really aren't people with a good heart and a lot of free time but are paid by big companies to work on strategicaly important software. This would sort of blatently contradict that idea
Open source is really good at the interesting parts of coding, but the boring parts are hard to get done by people who aren't getting paid. I do think that this relegate OSS to nerds-only. And I don't think that's a bad thing either. Imagine FAQs and other support fora full of things like "how do I list the files in a directory?"
Having done a semblance of technical support for non-technical people in my neighborhood, I never cease to be surprised by how confusing something like, say, the file system is to a non-technical person.
Share and enjoy,
Mike.
UI stuff is tough to do open source.
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Next Generation X11
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So in another 4-5 or more years X will have the same stuff that OS X has had for a while?
This highlights the problem with Opensourcesoftwaredevelopmenten. Things go swimingly until some really un-fun interface code needs to be written. At that point, you really want to pay someone to do the grundge work.
Auf Weiderscrheiben,
Mike .
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switch to intel processors angers some mac loyalists.
mac market share is smaller
writing mac-specific virii is even less appealing
even fewer virii show up.
Sounds good to me.
Mike Jones
computer user since 1985.
mac user since 2004
So that was it for me and sun. I thought they had gone the way of the atari or commador but apparently someone at sun discovered that people like laptops! Hopefully they will do other moderny things like say put a wireless card in a laptop!
Let's review:
hardware = something you can kick when it breaks, or, kick to break it
software = the little 0's and 1's that live in hardware.
And, by the way, I switched from linux and windows to a mac 1.5 years ago for the very same reason. Life is good in the smallest pie segment because nobody writes malware for us. But, since I am agnostic, I don't really care what other people do.
Open source is really good at the interesting parts of coding, but the boring parts are hard to get done by people who aren't getting paid. I do think that this relegate OSS to nerds-only. And I don't think that's a bad thing either. Imagine FAQs and other support fora full of things like "how do I list the files in a directory?"
Having done a semblance of technical support for non-technical people in my neighborhood, I never cease to be surprised by how confusing something like, say, the file system is to a non-technical person.
Share and enjoy,
Mike.
So in another 4-5 or more years X will have the same stuff that OS X has had for a while? This highlights the problem with Opensourcesoftwaredevelopmenten. Things go swimingly until some really un-fun interface code needs to be written. At that point, you really want to pay someone to do the grundge work. Auf Weiderscrheiben, Mike .