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From: Carbon on 6 Aug 2010 23:27 On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:08:10 -0400, R&B wrote: > On 2010-08-04 19:31:37 -0400, dene said: >> "R&B" <none_of_your_business(a)all.com> wrote in message >> news:2010080417332279531-noneofyourbusiness(a)allcom... >> >>> Yes, I'm well aware of all the options that allow running Windoze on >>> my Macs. >>> >>> I would rather sleep with Greg Schoenberg than put Windows on any of >>> my Macs. In other words: That ain't gonna happen. >> >> Amen....cutie. >> >> So...my kid is about ready to go to college and he has Mac on the >> brain. $1200 for a 13 in. Mac Book when he could pay half that much >> for a souped up Toshiba with a larger screen. >> >> His money....but I don't understand the reasoning. > > I didn't understand it either. For the longest time, I resisted > switching to Mac. My reasoning? It's a PC world. I always thought > Mac-heads were just elitists. > > Then I made the switch. > > Now I get it. > > Macs just work. No blue screens of death. WIth Windows, I could > expect the machine to crash at least once a week. I've experienced a > system hang maybe twice in three years since I started using Mac. > > But most of all, every Windoze computer I ever had required Norton > Anti-Virus or some similar anti-virus software. Over time, AV > software slows everything down to a crawl. Now, with my Mac, I click > an app and it opens...fast. No scanning, no waiting. When I shut > down the computer, it doesn't take three minutes to scan everything, > it just shuts down. > > Since switching to Mac, software that I ran on Windows works faster, > better, is far more responsive. What can I say? It just works > better. Lots better. So much better that I wouldn't think of > switching back. It may be one of those things that you just have to > take the plunge before you'll truly understand why Mac people are so > adament about never wanting to use a Windows machine. (Nearly all of > them started with Windows, so it's not like they don't have a frame of > reference.) > > There was one Windows-only app I used for my everyday tasks (recording > and editing audio waveforms for my voiceover work) that I really > missed -- Sony Sound Forge. There are dozens of waveform editors for > the Mac, but none quite worked the way I wanted, the way I was used to > working with Sound Forge. But I found one that had a similar work > flow, but seemed to be written more for the hobbyist/podcaster than > the professional. So I wrote the developer and told him that he > wasn't that far away from having a pro app that could be embraced by > the audio professional if he'd consider a few tweaks. I sent him a > list of about five changes I'd love to see him make. The next day he > sent me a link to a beta version with all my suggestions incorporated. > Wow. Next day I sent him five more. He followed up with another link > to an updated beta. We went back and forth, and over a period of a > few weeks, I gave him nearly two dozen changes that he could made that > would make his software more appealing to the professional. He > incorporated every single one of them. And today, because I, and one > of my friends in Hollywood have spread the gospel, his software is now > being used by numerous fim makers and television producers in > Hollywood, including Entertainment Tonight, who uses it exclusively in > their remote kit. (His software is called Twisted Wave -- > www.twistedwave.com -- not a paid plug, I just endorse and use it.) > > I never found that kind of responsiveness to suggestions from any app > on the Windows platform. Quite to the contrary. I honestly don't care much about GUIs. I spend my days in front of a BASH command prompt, writing scripts that cause things to happen on large numbers of remote servers. This sort of thing has traditionally been deeply painful on Windows. So I like that OS X is UNIX based. Having a real OS beneath the GUI saves you from a lot of pain. p.s.: you're right about the AV. The cure is often worse than the disease.
From: dene on 7 Aug 2010 03:13 "Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message news:4c5cccb2$0$14815$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:27:25 -0700, dene wrote: > > > Me too. My first one, with a dot matrix printer, and vga screen was a > > 286/10. Around 1990, I paid 3k for it. > > My first was a Datatrain 286/12, some sort of early PC clone. I even > paid $50 to upgrade the memory from 640k to 1 mb. This wasn't to have it > installed--it was for the computer dude to drop them into my palm so I > could go home and try to figure out where they went on the motherboard. > Such things were less obvious in those pre-simm/pre-dimm days. > > > The only problem I've had is an HD crash (years ago) and Windows > > Millenium Edition. I think it was Randy who finally got through to me > > that it was a bonafide POS, hence the upgrade to Win. 2000, which I have > > to this day. > > I have Windows 7 running in a VM on my PC and it's pretty decent (for > Windows). The security is less obtrusive than Vista, yet it's all shiny > and polished. If you don't have the balls for Linux, then I sort of > endorse 64-bit Windows 7. > > I hope I didn't overwhelm you with my enthusiasm. -------------------------------------------------- ROFL! -Greg
From: dene on 7 Aug 2010 03:14 "Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message news:4c5cb505$0$4837$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:54:51 -0400, BAR wrote: > > In article <8c000uF16iU1(a)mid.individual.net>, MNMiikkew(a)aol.com > > says... > >> "Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message > >> news:4c59f952$0$4966$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... > >>> On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:55:16 -0400, BAR wrote: > >>>> In article <clark-F0673C.14280304082010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio- > >>>> state.edu>, clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu says... > >>>> > >>>>> Yes, just run Parallels or Boot Camp, and you can run Windows as > >>>>> well and fast as on a PC, and you have the blissful relief of > >>>>> being able to go back to OS X for sanity. It is amazing now how > >>>>> the Macs are making inroads into the science and engineering > >>>>> student market, where so many essential apps used to be PC only. > >>>>> The kids love them, and they are so much less demanding of > >>>>> technician time than PCs. > >>>> > >>>> Get VMWare and run everything. > >>> > >>> VMWare's market is disappearing thanks to KVM and various other less > >>> expensive or free virtualization solutions. > >> > >> Perhaps in the desktop market. ESX is the only way to really run > >> enterprise servers. > > > > Oh, I forgot Carbon is an expert in everything. > > VM is on the radar, specifically ways to reduce its cost. It is my job to > investigate such things. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I just read and re-read this post and I'm proud to say that I don't have a clue what you geeks are talking about!!! -Greg
From: Carbon on 7 Aug 2010 09:47 On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:14:54 -0700, dene wrote: > "Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message > news:4c5cb505$0$4837$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... > >> VM is on the radar, specifically ways to reduce its cost. It is my >> job to investigate such things. > > I just read and re-read this post and I'm proud to say that I don't > have a clue what you geeks are talking about!!! Well then! Virtualization is basically the ability to run one operating system within another. What's the point of that for a home user? Well, say you buy a new PC with 64-bit Windows 7 and find out that the only printer driver you can find requires 32-bit Windows XP. No problem! Install Virtualbox (free download) and install XP as a virtual machine. Install the printer in the VM and share it out to your home network. Problem solved! Virtualization also saves money. Right now I have 8 VMs running on my Ubuntu Linux system and I'm at about 1/3 CPU and 2/3 RAM. I used to have computers scattered around the house. Well I still do, but only my main desktop is running.
From: BAR on 7 Aug 2010 10:19
In article <8c4f8aF1abU1(a)mid.individual.net>, dene(a)remove.ipns.com says... > > "Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message > news:4c5cb505$0$4837$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... > > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:54:51 -0400, BAR wrote: > > > In article <8c000uF16iU1(a)mid.individual.net>, MNMiikkew(a)aol.com > > > says... > > >> "Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message > > >> news:4c59f952$0$4966$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... > > >>> On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:55:16 -0400, BAR wrote: > > >>>> In article <clark-F0673C.14280304082010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio- > > >>>> state.edu>, clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu says... > > >>>> > > >>>>> Yes, just run Parallels or Boot Camp, and you can run Windows as > > >>>>> well and fast as on a PC, and you have the blissful relief of > > >>>>> being able to go back to OS X for sanity. It is amazing now how > > >>>>> the Macs are making inroads into the science and engineering > > >>>>> student market, where so many essential apps used to be PC only. > > >>>>> The kids love them, and they are so much less demanding of > > >>>>> technician time than PCs. > > >>>> > > >>>> Get VMWare and run everything. > > >>> > > >>> VMWare's market is disappearing thanks to KVM and various other less > > >>> expensive or free virtualization solutions. > > >> > > >> Perhaps in the desktop market. ESX is the only way to really run > > >> enterprise servers. > > > > > > Oh, I forgot Carbon is an expert in everything. > > > > VM is on the radar, specifically ways to reduce its cost. It is my job to > > investigate such things. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > I just read and re-read this post and I'm proud to say that I don't have a > clue what you geeks are talking about!!! Carb's if you want some info on VMWare and its practical applicaiton let me know. We've been using it within my company for over 5 years and we have reduced datacenter operating costs by 40%, cooling, electricty, head-count. Datacenter expansion plans have been shelved due to the floor space recovery. Less network equipment is required. It is an all around win. And you could get a big fat bonus out of the deal. |