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Ten years on Windows.. Ten years too much. I would rather have stayed on the Olivetti. I may be misspelling that, but it was amazing.
Eventually a Hackintosh with Lion, Debian Linux Mint and Windows. I wish I could add dust to the Windows wallpaper and wipe it away with a desktop trackpad.
At work 1: Ubuntu GNU/Linux MacOS X
At work 2: Windows XP Ubuntu GNU/Linux
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// puts on beard and sandals // Hey kid, here's 50c, go buy yourself a real computer. :D
Actually -- if Mac OSX is a certified Unix. And iOS is a variant of OSX. Does that mean that my phone is running an "official" UNIX? Because that makes Zakuzaa one of those "condescending unix users"
To be honest, I'm not sure what value Apple got out of certifying.
Bragging rights? Even the geeks don't care. :D
Sell a few more tens of dozens of their now defunct rack units to some large corporate? yawn
Interoperability with 70s mainframes? zzzzz
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Linux being the perfect example that sometimes being 'Unixy enough' is all that matters. (Though I'd bet dollars to donuts there's someone out there in geekland who has sweated blood and tears over/because of the miniscule differences some time or other.) raises a shot glass in silent thanks to those who wentbefore us and fought for our liberty
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Something that occurs to me is this: Just about every place that I've worked with Windows has had its own ' special ' set of restrictions. Where I'm at now for instance in the Windows menu is an option "Switch User" but it is disabled. For various reasons, I need to do a lot of user switching, and I find myself desperately missing the OS X fast-user switching. Having to log out and log in all the time is a massive PI…
Have you tried asking your IT dept why it's disabled, and if you could have it turned on? If it's actually adversely affecting your work then it's worth doing something about it.
OS X is sexy for dev
At that time if you read articles about people going to Java conferences(1), they kept remarking about how many people were using Powerbooks. Apple also had this really small Powerbook ... 11 inches?
Anyway, Apple also had the most modern Java installed by default. Linux was still involved in a persisting match with Sun about whose freedom was the freest (probably just Stallman, but nobody wants to get in his way), so Java was hard to find and would get you ostracised. IBM had their own bizarre mutant version that ran on their boxen. Microsoft was still not returning Sun's calls after the big court battle over visitation rights, and the version of Java you'd get on any new PC was essentially random in the range of 1..N-1, where N = most recent Java.
So, if you wanted to do Java development, Apple was the coolest.
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But here's the thing. Apple fans may mock Balmer(2) jumping around on stage like an Orangutan screaming 4.('developers!') but Apple doesn't grok developers the way Microsoft does, and probably never will.
Apple is just a hair's breadth away from actually disliking developers. There's times when I feel like if they could they'd lock third party devs out and never even shed a tear over it. There's times when they throw us a bone, but those are few and far between. And fairly often they'll just take the bone back.
Example: their language support is spotty. They gave up on Java, they supported and then gave up on various trendy languages and their respective Cocoa bridges.
Apple may grok consumers (though I'd argue that) but they sure as heck don't get devs.
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(1) lots of things were cooler back in 2003... nowdays.... not so much.
(2) There were plenty of Microsoft fans doing exactly the same mocking of Balmer, so don't interpret this as an 'us vs them' thing
Totals as of about 4:20 AM EST on Wed, Mar 9: Mac OS: 440 Linux: 380 Windows: 273 BSD: 40
Mac OS 516
Linux 492
Windows 331
BSD 49I'd love to hear from the 3 people who picked NetBSD.
So you want to know why? Well, because it is still a nice looking bit of furniture, so it sits on my bookcase cycling through a range of webcams from around the world, like a set of ever-changing postcards.
(There are some great webcams out there. I especially like the Antarctic ones that show penguins and seals roaming around, and some of the isolated tropical beaches are nice too. You also get a nice sense of the changing seasons.)