I use a iMac Dual Intel Core. Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu run just fine on it.
Happily, it doesn't crash and burn as much as the average Microsoft aberration.
Steve Jobs was dead right when he stated that Microsoft makes mediocre software for mediocre users.
Bleat on fat man. I can hear the fat lady getting warming up her voice.
When I was a poor, poor college student (not much different now, actually) I had a RAM drive in the 386 I cobbled up.
Even a 10meg hard drive was prohibitively expensive, but I had memory. So, I set up a 3.5" floppy to create a ram drive on boot up, copy Procomm plus and text.exe into the RAM drive. Then I could log into GEnie and copy data. Typing "exit" saved my data and allowed me to power down. Oh, the job of batch files...
Downloading it now.
I'll play with it and see what I like, what I don't, and what will make it crash - in a window.
If it augers in or doesn't meet expectation, no drama. I'll just bounce back to my beloved MacOS or fire up my second fave of late, Ubuntu.
Funny you should come up with that retort.
2000/2001 I was a network admin at the South Pole. We had a door to open, about 1' square, to open to atmosphere if the room got to hot.
Mind you, there was a 4 inch ice "berm" around the entire room. It made cooling my beer easier.
I got reamed royally by the IRS for working for 14 months at the South Pole and subsequently taking the overseas tax exempt credit. For twenty years previous, no one had been taxed for working at the Pole.
5 years later I pay nearly $20,000 as two IRS agents looking to make a name for themselves decided to challenge whether or not Antarctica was a "Foreign Country". Raytheon was involved.
Tada. A Federal Tax Judge decided for the IRS and Raytheon. It turn, anyone who worked in the first year of Raytheon's contract in Antarctica got hit. Five years later I get a bill.
Epilog: I'm no longer a network administrator but now a car salesman, struggling to just get the bills paid as Raytheon ditched a whole generation of folks that worked on ice. The only ones left are suck ups and sycophants.
12 years of my life and memories McMurdo, Palmer Station, The South Pole and working on the RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer are now tinged by thoughts of the IRS reaming I took. At least I had a good ride.
One more reason not to shop at Wal-Mart.
I just don't do it, ever. I've ridden a motorcycle around the US for years, and saw many "dead" and dying towns - and a shiny new huge parking lot with a Wal-Mart on one end.
It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.
Now Wal-Mart is the company store for many in America. It's sad. So much for diversity in the marketplace.
Prior to getting married, I'd planned on living in a yurt (www.yurts.com). Alas, the bride to be was a no-go in living so simply.
We found a 1928 Arts & Crafts house that fit. As I had already purchased all the appliances for the yurt, planning to live off the grid, we used them.
Using CFL lights in all the sockets, ceiling fans in the summer, a very efficient fridge from Denmark and a single unit washer/dryer combo (washes and dries in the same unit) we average a $24 a month electric bill annually.
You can live on the cheap, have all the goodies of American Life, and be an environmentalist. It's just easier for the average American to consume and pay.
I was in Antarctica when the IPO for RedHat took place. Via a satellite phone connection, I bought shares. I was going to by $10,000 worth, but whinged and only bought $1000.
Oh well. When I sold it, I had enough to put a hefty down payment on my first house. It was a good ride.
Did anyone read the piece of propaganda? Only the online NY Times site (not in my Sunday NY Times) has the following:
"Julie Bick is a former Microsoft employee and the author of "The Microsoft Edge." (Pocket Books, 1999). The people she interviewed for this article include some friends and former co-workers."
Yeesh. Talk about product placement and corporate tail wagging the dog...
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Kate Bush wrote a song about is over 20 years ago. Move on folks..nothing interesting here ;)
I use a iMac Dual Intel Core. Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu run just fine on it. Happily, it doesn't crash and burn as much as the average Microsoft aberration. Steve Jobs was dead right when he stated that Microsoft makes mediocre software for mediocre users. Bleat on fat man. I can hear the fat lady getting warming up her voice.
When I was a poor, poor college student (not much different now, actually) I had a RAM drive in the 386 I cobbled up. Even a 10meg hard drive was prohibitively expensive, but I had memory. So, I set up a 3.5" floppy to create a ram drive on boot up, copy Procomm plus and text.exe into the RAM drive. Then I could log into GEnie and copy data. Typing "exit" saved my data and allowed me to power down. Oh, the job of batch files...
Downloading it now. I'll play with it and see what I like, what I don't, and what will make it crash - in a window. If it augers in or doesn't meet expectation, no drama. I'll just bounce back to my beloved MacOS or fire up my second fave of late, Ubuntu.
Funny you should come up with that retort. 2000/2001 I was a network admin at the South Pole. We had a door to open, about 1' square, to open to atmosphere if the room got to hot. Mind you, there was a 4 inch ice "berm" around the entire room. It made cooling my beer easier.
Using waste veggie oil and a weed like rapeseed doesn't impact food crop and uses things that would otherwise go to waste.
I burn biodiesel in my Benz 300CD Turbodiesel without any modification. It's available on the pump here at several locations in Asheville NC.
I got reamed royally by the IRS for working for 14 months at the South Pole and subsequently taking the overseas tax exempt credit. For twenty years previous, no one had been taxed for working at the Pole. 5 years later I pay nearly $20,000 as two IRS agents looking to make a name for themselves decided to challenge whether or not Antarctica was a "Foreign Country". Raytheon was involved. Tada. A Federal Tax Judge decided for the IRS and Raytheon. It turn, anyone who worked in the first year of Raytheon's contract in Antarctica got hit. Five years later I get a bill. Epilog: I'm no longer a network administrator but now a car salesman, struggling to just get the bills paid as Raytheon ditched a whole generation of folks that worked on ice. The only ones left are suck ups and sycophants. 12 years of my life and memories McMurdo, Palmer Station, The South Pole and working on the RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer are now tinged by thoughts of the IRS reaming I took. At least I had a good ride.
One more reason not to shop at Wal-Mart. I just don't do it, ever. I've ridden a motorcycle around the US for years, and saw many "dead" and dying towns - and a shiny new huge parking lot with a Wal-Mart on one end. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Now Wal-Mart is the company store for many in America. It's sad. So much for diversity in the marketplace.
Prior to getting married, I'd planned on living in a yurt (www.yurts.com). Alas, the bride to be was a no-go in living so simply. We found a 1928 Arts & Crafts house that fit. As I had already purchased all the appliances for the yurt, planning to live off the grid, we used them. Using CFL lights in all the sockets, ceiling fans in the summer, a very efficient fridge from Denmark and a single unit washer/dryer combo (washes and dries in the same unit) we average a $24 a month electric bill annually. You can live on the cheap, have all the goodies of American Life, and be an environmentalist. It's just easier for the average American to consume and pay.
I was in Antarctica when the IPO for RedHat took place. Via a satellite phone connection, I bought shares. I was going to by $10,000 worth, but whinged and only bought $1000. Oh well. When I sold it, I had enough to put a hefty down payment on my first house. It was a good ride.
Did anyone read the piece of propaganda? Only the online NY Times site (not in my Sunday NY Times) has the following:
"Julie Bick is a former Microsoft employee and the author of "The Microsoft Edge." (Pocket Books, 1999). The people she interviewed for this article include some friends and former co-workers."
Yeesh. Talk about product placement and corporate tail wagging the dog...