I have always thought Apple made product that was technically inferior to the equivalent IBM style hardware. (This is still true... just looking at an Apple Laptop proves it (and they still have a one button mouse)
Maybe Microsoft has decided to become a hardware company like Apple is. I wonder if the servers will be made in the same Chinese factories that make Macs and virtually every other computer.
I wonder if the Judge is deliberately giving the Defendant an easily-appealable point (bad/missing jury instruction), so that if it goes the RIAA's way, the Defendant can raise that issue on appeal, and the whole verdict would almost certainly be thrown out.
Bad/missing jury instruction is a oft-won appeal issue; so methinks this is a clever strategy by the judge to "help" the Defendant, without appearing to do so.
Otherwise, the Judge should get a brain scan, so they can actually find that brain tumor.
IANAL (nor a neurosurgeon for that matter), but jus' sayin'...
running a "TRUE Unix" doesn't really mean anything
Um, maybe not in your Mom's basement, nor in your l337's friend's Mom's basements; but, in certain financial, government, academic, scientific and business circles it sure do!
I'm not interested in arguing with a teenager about... well anything really.
Haha ok let me break this down to you. First of all that "perfectly good" part is solely your opinion and believe it or not not everybody agrees. Secondly there are huge differences between unix like OSs. And last but not least, some people like to own whatever they've bought rather than lease it. That's why.
Haha, ok, let me break THIS down to [sic] you:
UNLIKE Linux, OS X is NOT, repeat NOT, a "Unix-LIKE OS". It IS a Unix OS.
Just because you Linux fanbois are jealous for being a TRUE Unix (instead of a WANNABE Unix), doesn't mean you have to diss OS X.
BTW nice keeping up with tech-news. OS X has been a certified Unix since 2007...
i say why because my app only runs on linux (for now).
i don't know anything about multiplatform stuff and wouldn't even try to (I'm a VB developer..)
Apparently you know a LOT about cross-platform development already, because you're evidently developing in a WINDOWS-ONLY language (VB) but SOMEHOW getting your app to run in LINUX.
Actually, it would have to be 65C02 or better. You couldn't do "ldx #$FF" on a 6502, you had to do "lda #$FF" and then "tax" (transfer A to X). The ability to load immediate into the X or Y registers was added on the 65C02. And, don't quote my on this, but I think the 7800 predated the 65816, so I suspect 65C02 is the right answer...
BZZT! WRONG! Thanks for playing...
I have written hundreds of pages of 6502 code, on systems old enough (Apple 1) to have original MOS Technologies 6502s in them, and the "immediate" addressing mode (denoted by the # symbol in the argument) was DEFINITELY in the original 6502.
Don't believe me? Take a look at this listing of the (nearly completely unused) Floating Point routines that were included in the original Apple II monitor ROM. You will see an immediate load of the X register (LDX #$2) within the first couple of lines of code. This code was written by Steve Wozniak WAY before the Rockwell R65C02 was even on the drawing board!
What you MAY be thinking of is the fact that you couldn't load the STACK POINTER REGISTER (S) "immediate". You had to do a LDX #STACKTOP (usually set to $FF), and then use the TXS instruction to get the value into the Stack Pointer. This listing of Microchess (originally written in 1976 for the MOS Technologies KIM-1 computer, shows (at the label "CHESS" near the top of the listing) the LDX #$FF then TXS instruction pair mantra used to initialize the stack pointer on the 6502. The comment mentioning "Two Stacks" is referring to a software PSEUDO "stack pointer" (variable "SP2") that doesn't have anything to do with the 6502's hardware-implemented Stack Pointer (S register).
Still better that Safari on Mac which doesn't allow anything but Google as the search engine.
Maybe not out of the box, but the FREE Safari plugin Inquisitor allows the search engine to be changed at will, and much more.
The site does a really poor job of explaining this, but trust me, Inquisitor will do the trick.
I have read that Inquisitor may not work with Safari 4 yet (which may be outdated information). Here is another free plugin, Glims, that will allow the changing of search engines in Safari 4 for Mac.
As a Mac user, it IS kind of odd that Safari 4 for Windows allows the selection of Search Engines, but Safari 4 for Mac does not...
The word "iteration" has been around a very long time - most high school educated people know what the word means. And if they don't, they've got bigger things to worry about. Really.
Really?
I have a vocabulary that is on the large side of normal, and I never heard the word "iterate" or "iteration" used in any conversation until I started learning computer languages.
The only common derivative of "iterate" is "reiterate".
And remember, most people read at a 4th or 5th grade level; not at a 11th or 12th grade level. So, even allowing for your opinion, "iteration" is not going to be in the majority of people's "comfort zone" vocabulary; hence, my original comment stands.
This error message demonstrates EXACTLY why Microsoft Just Doesn't Get It(TM).
Most people on/. know what "Iteration" means; but PLEASE find me 10 (non-dev and non-IT) people on the street who can give a definition of "Iteration" in that sentence.
If you have your C++ code jockeys approve Error text, this is what you get.
You would NEVER see the word "Iteration" (howabout "Copy"?) in an Apple Dialog (unless it was in a dev. tool like XCode).
I live in the US State of Indiana, and on Friday morning, in amongst the rah-rah DTV ads, was ONE lonely ad that noted that if you lived in a list of about a dozen Indiana counties, you could expect NO SIGNAL AT ALL when the switchover occurred. here's an article listing at least 7 Indiana counties affected. Curiously, some of the Counties are in Northern Indiana, which is FLAT AS A PANCAKE, so what's with the "terrain" excuse?
I find it highly suspicious that that ad was:
1. Not aired until the DAY OF the transition
2. Not aired until AFTER President Obama publicly stated "There will be no more delays."
3. Was only aired ONCE (that I saw at least, watching for about 5 hours on the same channel that aired it) (meeting the legal requirements for "notice", but obviously intended to provide "notice" to as FEW people as possible).
I'm sorry, but a large chunk of American Taxpayers were instantly relegated to TV purgatory on Saturday, WITH NO SOLUTION OR EVEN A BACKUP PLAN IN SIGHT.
[snip] All that said the nature of an open system does make it harder than simply declaring a "standard" by fiat but standards will evolve as obvious best practices win out. I think it's slower in the case of Linux for a number of reasons.
1. Some subsystems are immature
You mean MOST subsystems. And after 15 years, too. Impressive.
2. The user base is restricted so there isn't a monetary driver isn't there to accelerate development of various standards
Every OS has that "chicken and egg" problem. At first. See "15 years", above.
3. The user base is relatively sophisticated so they put up with a less polished interface that requires tweaking and hacking."
You actually mean "The user base is insanely stubborn so they continually make excuses for a 15 year old OS that STILL has a less polished interface that STILL, AFTER 15 YEARS, requires tweaking and hacking."
4. The broken Patent system (I still don't get how patenting an abstract concept or math makes any sense) blocks some standards and creates barriers to evolution of technology by closing off some paths of competition.
Citation, please? Sounds like a piss-poor excuse to me, actually.
I *did* do the research. I *did* see Carbon Copy Cloner. If you'd like to call me an idiot for not being able to get it to successfully image the machine, then you might have a case there, because I was not able to successfully get it to work. I do not blame Apple for that, and I don't necessarily blame the writer of CCC, either.
I don't consider NTFS an open standard by any stretch of the imagination. But you mention a free app that enables read/write support on NTFS volumes. I'll keep that in mind if such an issue comes up again. However, why isn't HFS+ at least read-only in Windows? I'm sure that's Microsoft's fault...
Does Time Machine work over a LAN? I did look at it, and wasn't able to get it to do so. By time I tethered the drive to the computer, it was already unable to start up.
I don't claim to know everything. My argument wasn't saying that Apple is an inferior product, or that it's necessarily Apple's fault for Acronis and Ghost not working on their platform. The question was posed as to whether there was something that took longer to do on a Mac than a PC. I shared an experience. If you'd like to consider me an inferior IT consultant for not knowing how to image a Mac (as it's the first Mac I'm responsible for and am doing alot of learning of the platform in many other respects), then fine. You would be correct in that regard. But calling me a *liar*, as in being intentionally untruthful? I think that's a bit harsh.
I (partially) retract my statement about CCC. I have no idea why you couldn't get it to image your drive. Perhaps it is because you tried AFTER the HD started failing, eh?
You call yourself an "IT consultant", and YET you didn't arrange for a BACKUP system (especially since there is one BUILT IN to the OS!!!). Did you really think that Apple has some magical power over Hard Drive reliabilty? As you yourself pointed out, a Western Digital drive is, afterall, a Western Digital drive. And worse yet, a LAPTOP drive, which are notoriously short-lived (although yours was obviously defective, or subjected to the "drop test" that your Pastor didn't tell you about, or that you didn't want the world to know about...)
And yet, you didn't arrange for a backup BEFORE disaster struck.
Your failing has nothing to do with Apple; you simply need to hand in your Geek badge. Thanks for playing!
As you would know if you had bothered to read even the feature page regarding Time Machine, it is designed to work with a DIRECTLY-CONNECTED external Hard Drive. What you are wanting is an Apple product called "Time Capsule", which provides both an Airport Base Station (with print server support), and wired and wireless Time Machine backup services for EVERY Mac on your LAN. Of course you wouldn't know about it, since it's right there under the "Mac" tab of Apple's site...
And despite your belated (and disingenuous) protestations of "Not saying that Apple is an inferior product", the the tone of your entire original comment beLIES that statement. So my original "Liar" epithet, though admittedly harsh, applies now more than ever; because you have now lied FURTHER to cover your previous LIES.
But I expect nothing less from someone who believes in the FSM...
"The few, the proud, the delusional: the Christian, Conservative, Republican Slashdotters."
I'm really NOT trolling, nor trying to start an OS war, honest! But facts are facts,
[and]
and STILL it's a worthless "lab queen", suitable for ZERO desktops.
Yeah, ZERO, right. So all of us who are running Ubuntu (or whatever distro) exclusively and getting our work done are completely deluded, we're really running Windows or Mac OS and don't realize it.
In fact, your own words label you a troll and show you wouldn't know a fact from a kick up the arse.
LOL! I knew I'd get arrested for saying "Zero". Ok, let's just say "Overall, a statistically insignificant number".
And BTW, what "work" is that? Compiling the latest Linux distro? Writing software? As an embedded developer with 29 years of experience, I will certainly concede that that qualifies as "work"; but you are being deliberately obtuse and you bloody well know it.
I am talking about the sturm and drang of mainstream computer use. Sure, in SOME cases, Linux CAN do it (for limited values of "do it"); but it does it fugly. Anyone who has tried to get Linux working on most laptops, or with something as esoteric as, oh, WiFi, knows exactly what I am talking about. And so do you. So stop being deliberately obtuse (or are you really just that stupid)?
You need to re-learn (or learn) the definition of "Troll". A Troll (in "forum" parlance) is someone who posts deliberately inflammatory comments, usually without any basis in fact, and ALWAYS OFF TOPIC, purely for the sick pleasure of inciting argument for argument's sake. I was posting a very ON TOPIC comment in agreement with OTHER commenters who had postulated that UBUNTU LINUX WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT, OR "FLOP". See the difference?
That's why the vast majority of Linux users have OS X machines. Because they need to actually get shit done.
What's that, based on your extensive survey of 2 people? Pulled out your arse again more likely.
No. It is based mostly upon reading literally thousands of/. comments from literally hundreds of self-professed (and Mac-owning) Linux fans over the past 6 years as a/. member. But of course you know that what I was saying was true, too.
So NOW who's the Troll? As I said, there are none so rabid (and blind) as Linux fanbois. Grow up and get out of your Mom's basement.
Carbon Copy Cloner. FREE. Been around for nearly a DECADE. Not only does it "Ghost" your drive ( GHOST IS NOT A FREE APP BTW!), but the backups can be BOOTABLE.
Don't blame Apple for your inability to do 5 seconds of research to find the solution.
And you can blame Disk Utility's inability to write to an NTFS drive on Microsoft (who REFUSES to document NTFS), not Apple!!! BTW, Disk Utility has PERFECT NTFS READ support. But you don't mention THAT, either (of course).
You call HFS+ "Proprietary", and then have the temerity to mention NTFS as if it's some sort of Open Standard?!?!? Hahahahahaha!!!!!
Of course, if you were being honest (instead of just trolling), you'd admit that that limitation is neatly overcome by the (FREE!) MacFUSE userspace NTFS filesystem read/WRITE support.
And when Snow Leopard (Server, at least) debuts with FULL ZFS support...
And oh, BTW, if you had been running the DEAD-SIMPLE (And QUITE unique!!!) Time Machine, you wouldn't have had ANY of all this. And the price of Time Machine? Oh, that's right, it's INCLUDED IN THE OS!!!
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I have always thought Apple made product that was technically inferior to the equivalent IBM style hardware. (This is still true ... just looking at an Apple Laptop proves it (and they still have a one button mouse)
Does THIS qualify as a "one button mouse"?
if it wasn't for the artyfart fan boys, Apple would have been long gone.
Wow, then the number of "artyfart fan boys" must not only be legion, but is actually GROWING at a phenomenal rate, especially when compared to the PC Sales slump overall this year.!
Fucking TROLL.
Yep. There's absolutely no way to use an iPod under Linux
Now, don't you start your whining about your precious Ogg and FLAC or-anything-else-support neither!
Now STFU, you fucking Troll...
Maybe Microsoft has decided to become a hardware company like Apple is. I wonder if the servers will be made in the same Chinese factories that make Macs and virtually every other computer.
There, fixed that for you, Troll.
...But it is about as far away from FREE Software as it gets.
In fact, is it even technically Open Source either?
From the Red Hat site: "Available for immediate download starting at $80."
Um, 80 != 0, right? So, why would the F/OSS community trumpet this as a "win"?
There, there or hear, hear?
Where, where?
I wonder if the Judge is deliberately giving the Defendant an easily-appealable point (bad/missing jury instruction), so that if it goes the RIAA's way, the Defendant can raise that issue on appeal, and the whole verdict would almost certainly be thrown out.
Bad/missing jury instruction is a oft-won appeal issue; so methinks this is a clever strategy by the judge to "help" the Defendant, without appearing to do so.
Otherwise, the Judge should get a brain scan, so they can actually find that brain tumor.
IANAL (nor a neurosurgeon for that matter), but jus' sayin'...
Repeating a lie doesn't make it any more true.
Worked for the Bush Administration!
But in this case, there is no lie being told.
"Apple is better" is an article of faith that isn't necessarily true.
But it is truer than the article of faith that "This is the year of the Linux Desktop"...
Thank you very much, I'll be here all week.
running a "TRUE Unix" doesn't really mean anything
Um, maybe not in your Mom's basement, nor in your l337's friend's Mom's basements; but, in certain financial, government, academic, scientific and business circles it sure do!
I'm not interested in arguing with a teenager about... well anything really.
I haven't been a teenager for nearly 4 decades.
Thanks!
Haha ok let me break this down to you. First of all that "perfectly good" part is solely your opinion and believe it or not not everybody agrees. Secondly there are huge differences between unix like OSs. And last but not least, some people like to own whatever they've bought rather than lease it. That's why.
Haha, ok, let me break THIS down to [sic] you:
UNLIKE Linux, OS X is NOT, repeat NOT, a "Unix-LIKE OS". It IS a Unix OS.
Just because you Linux fanbois are jealous for being a TRUE Unix (instead of a WANNABE Unix), doesn't mean you have to diss OS X.
BTW nice keeping up with tech-news. OS X has been a certified Unix since 2007...
Is that my karma I smell burning?
i say why because my app only runs on linux (for now). i don't know anything about multiplatform stuff and wouldn't even try to (I'm a VB developer..)
Apparently you know a LOT about cross-platform development already, because you're evidently developing in a WINDOWS-ONLY language (VB) but SOMEHOW getting your app to run in LINUX.
Perhaps you were developing in THIS, or THIS?
Idiot.
Looks like 6502.
Actually, it would have to be 65C02 or better. You couldn't do "ldx #$FF" on a 6502, you had to do "lda #$FF" and then "tax" (transfer A to X). The ability to load immediate into the X or Y registers was added on the 65C02. And, don't quote my on this, but I think the 7800 predated the 65816, so I suspect 65C02 is the right answer...
BZZT! WRONG! Thanks for playing...
I have written hundreds of pages of 6502 code, on systems old enough (Apple 1) to have original MOS Technologies 6502s in them, and the "immediate" addressing mode (denoted by the # symbol in the argument) was DEFINITELY in the original 6502.
Don't believe me? Take a look at this listing of the (nearly completely unused) Floating Point routines that were included in the original Apple II monitor ROM. You will see an immediate load of the X register (LDX #$2) within the first couple of lines of code. This code was written by Steve Wozniak WAY before the Rockwell R65C02 was even on the drawing board!
What you MAY be thinking of is the fact that you couldn't load the STACK POINTER REGISTER (S) "immediate". You had to do a LDX #STACKTOP (usually set to $FF), and then use the TXS instruction to get the value into the Stack Pointer. This listing of Microchess (originally written in 1976 for the MOS Technologies KIM-1 computer, shows (at the label "CHESS" near the top of the listing) the LDX #$FF then TXS instruction pair mantra used to initialize the stack pointer on the 6502. The comment mentioning "Two Stacks" is referring to a software PSEUDO "stack pointer" (variable "SP2") that doesn't have anything to do with the 6502's hardware-implemented Stack Pointer (S register).
Now get off my lawn!!!
Still better that Safari on Mac which doesn't allow anything but Google as the search engine.
Maybe not out of the box, but the FREE Safari plugin Inquisitor allows the search engine to be changed at will, and much more.
The site does a really poor job of explaining this, but trust me, Inquisitor will do the trick.
I have read that Inquisitor may not work with Safari 4 yet (which may be outdated information). Here is another free plugin, Glims, that will allow the changing of search engines in Safari 4 for Mac.
As a Mac user, it IS kind of odd that Safari 4 for Windows allows the selection of Search Engines, but Safari 4 for Mac does not...
The word "iteration" has been around a very long time - most high school educated people know what the word means. And if they don't, they've got bigger things to worry about. Really.
Really?
I have a vocabulary that is on the large side of normal, and I never heard the word "iterate" or "iteration" used in any conversation until I started learning computer languages.
The only common derivative of "iterate" is "reiterate".
And remember, most people read at a 4th or 5th grade level; not at a 11th or 12th grade level. So, even allowing for your opinion, "iteration" is not going to be in the majority of people's "comfort zone" vocabulary; hence, my original comment stands.
iPhone is to cell phones, as Cartier is to watches ... fucking expensive shiny piece of crap that probably does half of what a $5 timepiece would do.
Sounds like someone wishes they could afford an iPhone; but their Mom won't buy them one...
"There might be another iteration of it..."
/. know what "Iteration" means; but PLEASE find me 10 (non-dev and non-IT) people on the street who can give a definition of "Iteration" in that sentence.
Another ITERATION of it?!?!?!?
This error message demonstrates EXACTLY why Microsoft Just Doesn't Get It(TM).
Most people on
If you have your C++ code jockeys approve Error text, this is what you get.
You would NEVER see the word "Iteration" (howabout "Copy"?) in an Apple Dialog (unless it was in a dev. tool like XCode).
"Iteration", INDEED!
I live in the US State of Indiana, and on Friday morning, in amongst the rah-rah DTV ads, was ONE lonely ad that noted that if you lived in a list of about a dozen Indiana counties, you could expect NO SIGNAL AT ALL when the switchover occurred. here's an article listing at least 7 Indiana counties affected. Curiously, some of the Counties are in Northern Indiana, which is FLAT AS A PANCAKE, so what's with the "terrain" excuse?
I find it highly suspicious that that ad was:
1. Not aired until the DAY OF the transition
2. Not aired until AFTER President Obama publicly stated "There will be no more delays."
3. Was only aired ONCE (that I saw at least, watching for about 5 hours on the same channel that aired it) (meeting the legal requirements for "notice", but obviously intended to provide "notice" to as FEW people as possible).
I'm sorry, but a large chunk of American Taxpayers were instantly relegated to TV purgatory on Saturday, WITH NO SOLUTION OR EVEN A BACKUP PLAN IN SIGHT.
But linux gets preference. I just can't do with out that awesome command line.
So, why not run OS X instead of Linux? It's LIKE Linux with all the bullshit removed.
Oh, and it still has "that awesome command line"...
[snip] All that said the nature of an open system does make it harder than simply declaring a "standard" by fiat but standards will evolve as obvious best practices win out. I think it's slower in the case of Linux for a number of reasons.
1. Some subsystems are immature
You mean MOST subsystems. And after 15 years, too. Impressive.
2. The user base is restricted so there isn't a monetary driver isn't there to accelerate development of various standards
Every OS has that "chicken and egg" problem. At first. See "15 years", above.
3. The user base is relatively sophisticated so they put up with a less polished interface that requires tweaking and hacking."
You actually mean "The user base is insanely stubborn so they continually make excuses for a 15 year old OS that STILL has a less polished interface that STILL, AFTER 15 YEARS, requires tweaking and hacking."
4. The broken Patent system (I still don't get how patenting an abstract concept or math makes any sense) blocks some standards and creates barriers to evolution of technology by closing off some paths of competition.
Citation, please? Sounds like a piss-poor excuse to me, actually.
Perhaps if Sun was less stupid it would actually work.
Perhaps if Linux fanbois were less snotty you'd actually HAVE "The Year Of The Linux Desktop(TM)".
Navision (MS DynamicsNAV) won't run on Visturd???
HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
Epic fail.
Maybe they are. I only rarely use FireFox. I almost always use Safari.
I *did* do the research. I *did* see Carbon Copy Cloner. If you'd like to call me an idiot for not being able to get it to successfully image the machine, then you might have a case there, because I was not able to successfully get it to work. I do not blame Apple for that, and I don't necessarily blame the writer of CCC, either. I don't consider NTFS an open standard by any stretch of the imagination. But you mention a free app that enables read/write support on NTFS volumes. I'll keep that in mind if such an issue comes up again. However, why isn't HFS+ at least read-only in Windows? I'm sure that's Microsoft's fault... Does Time Machine work over a LAN? I did look at it, and wasn't able to get it to do so. By time I tethered the drive to the computer, it was already unable to start up. I don't claim to know everything. My argument wasn't saying that Apple is an inferior product, or that it's necessarily Apple's fault for Acronis and Ghost not working on their platform. The question was posed as to whether there was something that took longer to do on a Mac than a PC. I shared an experience. If you'd like to consider me an inferior IT consultant for not knowing how to image a Mac (as it's the first Mac I'm responsible for and am doing alot of learning of the platform in many other respects), then fine. You would be correct in that regard. But calling me a *liar*, as in being intentionally untruthful? I think that's a bit harsh.
I (partially) retract my statement about CCC. I have no idea why you couldn't get it to image your drive. Perhaps it is because you tried AFTER the HD started failing, eh?
You call yourself an "IT consultant", and YET you didn't arrange for a BACKUP system (especially since there is one BUILT IN to the OS!!!). Did you really think that Apple has some magical power over Hard Drive reliabilty? As you yourself pointed out, a Western Digital drive is, afterall, a Western Digital drive. And worse yet, a LAPTOP drive, which are notoriously short-lived (although yours was obviously defective, or subjected to the "drop test" that your Pastor didn't tell you about, or that you didn't want the world to know about...)
And yet, you didn't arrange for a backup BEFORE disaster struck.
Your failing has nothing to do with Apple; you simply need to hand in your Geek badge. Thanks for playing!
As you would know if you had bothered to read even the feature page regarding Time Machine, it is designed to work with a DIRECTLY-CONNECTED external Hard Drive. What you are wanting is an Apple product called "Time Capsule", which provides both an Airport Base Station (with print server support), and wired and wireless Time Machine backup services for EVERY Mac on your LAN. Of course you wouldn't know about it, since it's right there under the "Mac" tab of Apple's site...
And despite your belated (and disingenuous) protestations of "Not saying that Apple is an inferior product", the the tone of your entire original comment beLIES that statement. So my original "Liar" epithet, though admittedly harsh, applies now more than ever; because you have now lied FURTHER to cover your previous LIES.
But I expect nothing less from someone who believes in the FSM...
"The few, the proud, the delusional: the Christian, Conservative, Republican Slashdotters."
There, fixed that sig for ya.
I hate to respond to my own post; but I feel compelled to point out that as recently as TODAY, there is (yet another) article on "Why [after FIFTEEN FRICKIN' YEARS, and literally THOUSANDS of "Developers" Worldwide] Linux Is Not Yet Ready For The Desktop"
So, I guess it isn't just me then, eh?
I'm really NOT trolling, nor trying to start an OS war, honest! But facts are facts, [and] and STILL it's a worthless "lab queen", suitable for ZERO desktops.
Yeah, ZERO, right. So all of us who are running Ubuntu (or whatever distro) exclusively and getting our work done are completely deluded, we're really running Windows or Mac OS and don't realize it. In fact, your own words label you a troll and show you wouldn't know a fact from a kick up the arse.
LOL! I knew I'd get arrested for saying "Zero". Ok, let's just say "Overall, a statistically insignificant number".
And BTW, what "work" is that? Compiling the latest Linux distro? Writing software? As an embedded developer with 29 years of experience, I will certainly concede that that qualifies as "work"; but you are being deliberately obtuse and you bloody well know it.
I am talking about the sturm and drang of mainstream computer use. Sure, in SOME cases, Linux CAN do it (for limited values of "do it"); but it does it fugly. Anyone who has tried to get Linux working on most laptops, or with something as esoteric as, oh, WiFi, knows exactly what I am talking about. And so do you. So stop being deliberately obtuse (or are you really just that stupid)?
You need to re-learn (or learn) the definition of "Troll". A Troll (in "forum" parlance) is someone who posts deliberately inflammatory comments, usually without any basis in fact, and ALWAYS OFF TOPIC, purely for the sick pleasure of inciting argument for argument's sake. I was posting a very ON TOPIC comment in agreement with OTHER commenters who had postulated that UBUNTU LINUX WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT, OR "FLOP". See the difference?
That's why the vast majority of Linux users have OS X machines. Because they need to actually get shit done.
What's that, based on your extensive survey of 2 people? Pulled out your arse again more likely.
No. It is based mostly upon reading literally thousands of /. comments from literally hundreds of self-professed (and Mac-owning) Linux fans over the past 6 years as a /. member. But of course you know that what I was saying was true, too.
So NOW who's the Troll? As I said, there are none so rabid (and blind) as Linux fanbois. Grow up and get out of your Mom's basement.
And get off my lawn!
For a (assumed) Christian, you sure LIE A LOT...
Carbon Copy Cloner. FREE. Been around for nearly a DECADE. Not only does it "Ghost" your drive ( GHOST IS NOT A FREE APP BTW!), but the backups can be BOOTABLE.
Don't blame Apple for your inability to do 5 seconds of research to find the solution.
And you can blame Disk Utility's inability to write to an NTFS drive on Microsoft (who REFUSES to document NTFS), not Apple!!! BTW, Disk Utility has PERFECT NTFS READ support. But you don't mention THAT, either (of course).
You call HFS+ "Proprietary", and then have the temerity to mention NTFS as if it's some sort of Open Standard?!?!? Hahahahahaha!!!!! Of course, if you were being honest (instead of just trolling), you'd admit that that limitation is neatly overcome by the (FREE!) MacFUSE userspace NTFS filesystem read/WRITE support.
And when Snow Leopard (Server, at least) debuts with FULL ZFS support...
And oh, BTW, if you had been running the DEAD-SIMPLE (And QUITE unique!!!) Time Machine, you wouldn't have had ANY of all this. And the price of Time Machine? Oh, that's right, it's INCLUDED IN THE OS!!!
So now WHO's the IDIOT again?
Thought so.