I nag a lot. I enjoy life and my work a lot too. I use both hands with equal dexterity and I was born an engineer. I don't mind that.
I am able to spent in order to acquire all kinds of s/w and h/w. I use them a lot, to extremes for fun. I gave up assembly and programming in 1992. I devoted myself to system management. I make a living out of this plus some scada applications that I also do cause its easy for me to built custom solutions.
I get no money from any company to promote systems or solutions. I pick them myself cause they do what I like (and convince the customer that he likes it too). My systems work! Always! I present myself as a system integrator and expect them to award me the technology primadonna nomination.
I communicate with my kids over the home network, although the 4year old one walks over for a hug occasionally.
I urge people to "search google first, ask questions later" but its hard for them. Knowledge is out there, free (as beer and s/w should be). Please people, do not be afraid, be open, just give it a try. Technology is but too deep. Try it and Make your Day. Ofcourse I can program using only (0)zeros and (1)ones, but thats just me. And as Dilbert said, I'm lucky cause at his time they had only (0)zeros.
6.9.08
Mac OS X is as good as M$
its late at night and I just managed to recover my Mac. Yesterday I had a problem with my ubuntu laptop, but checking the huuuge user forums realized what should be done and restored my .gconf directory and It was done. Wasn´t easy, freaked me out, SHOULD NOT have happened.. but ended up ok. I had pushed my system to the limit, did things at a site that with m$ it would just tire me and would take 3 times in duration, but worked out with my hardy heron 8.04.1.
For the past 2-3 months that I own the mac, I was kinda envy of my friends using mac os before 10. They had those graphics, and sounds that I just got recently with 10.4.11 plus all available updates. Since I am not a luser, but an engineer, I spent many hours to find the best 5-6 gigs of downloads for various utilities for the mac os x. Very prudent thing of my behalf, that saved the mini mac from holding a vase in the future or being a door stop. (just joking, I have an iso of ubuntu for PPC awaiting).
Anyway, the mac worked hard for 2 months, and today as I was downloading netbeans with safari (!!!) cause I use firefox, the dmg after completion would not mount, giving errors. I happens that some downloads are corrupt but not from the official site of netbeans. I deleted it and started again with another download and got the same responce. I rebooted, since in case of doubt, using m$, you must reboot - my xp yesterday started responding on the 3rd reboot - and things got worst. The icons of my HD and my usb drives were not the neat ones but a folder icon. Did not pay much attention to relevance, so I searched for the way to switch back the icons. You guys at the mac forums, visit the linux users forum and learn. Many people at your forums giving their 2cent actually worth 0cent, or copy-pasting mac guide. That is m$-windows lusers attitude. Nothing worked from whats in there, very general approach and lots of sympathy to each other. No thanx. If you post a reply, be technical and specific. Its not a place for a chat, use chat channels not support forums.
Since I do not give up, cleaned disks, checked permissions etc (I have a disk image, but I do not format unless the system is broiled) decided to use the tools I was searching since day 0 and installed for ´in case´. Thank You ONYX. I went through every single tab, option and click. Had to reboot a few times after every cleanup option and it did the trick. Magic !!! you need magic with microsoft and apple.
Verdict
mac os x 10.4.xx is a piece of junk that gave me trouble the second week I bought it. Did things that a hard working system could bring after many months, or even couplaf years. Its xlent for people who do not know computers, once again, like m$ windows users that also get fanatic about it. I call it blunt ignorance, since they do not have the experience. I find it a very bad excuse that its BSD based, since there is nothing you can do with the *nix, and since AQUA takes control, then its windows story once again. I hoped that it would be stable. ITS NOT. And apple charges toooo much for selling you such a solution. If it was a choice of these two, I would go back to m$, its much better supported by users than the mac community. but then ... there is Debian and Ubuntu.
People would buy a car for the design, that breaks every 10000miles. Its a show off. I preffer a car thats got the horsepower and would not break for a million miles, even if it has no stereo or leather seats. Dont compare cars with me... please.. cause even if mine breaks accidentally, Iĺl fix it on the road myself. Got 25years behind me in OSs and I deliver. (in cars too)
For the past 2-3 months that I own the mac, I was kinda envy of my friends using mac os before 10. They had those graphics, and sounds that I just got recently with 10.4.11 plus all available updates. Since I am not a luser, but an engineer, I spent many hours to find the best 5-6 gigs of downloads for various utilities for the mac os x. Very prudent thing of my behalf, that saved the mini mac from holding a vase in the future or being a door stop. (just joking, I have an iso of ubuntu for PPC awaiting).
Anyway, the mac worked hard for 2 months, and today as I was downloading netbeans with safari (!!!) cause I use firefox, the dmg after completion would not mount, giving errors. I happens that some downloads are corrupt but not from the official site of netbeans. I deleted it and started again with another download and got the same responce. I rebooted, since in case of doubt, using m$, you must reboot - my xp yesterday started responding on the 3rd reboot - and things got worst. The icons of my HD and my usb drives were not the neat ones but a folder icon. Did not pay much attention to relevance, so I searched for the way to switch back the icons. You guys at the mac forums, visit the linux users forum and learn. Many people at your forums giving their 2cent actually worth 0cent, or copy-pasting mac guide. That is m$-windows lusers attitude. Nothing worked from whats in there, very general approach and lots of sympathy to each other. No thanx. If you post a reply, be technical and specific. Its not a place for a chat, use chat channels not support forums.
Since I do not give up, cleaned disks, checked permissions etc (I have a disk image, but I do not format unless the system is broiled) decided to use the tools I was searching since day 0 and installed for ´in case´. Thank You ONYX. I went through every single tab, option and click. Had to reboot a few times after every cleanup option and it did the trick. Magic !!! you need magic with microsoft and apple.
Verdict
mac os x 10.4.xx is a piece of junk that gave me trouble the second week I bought it. Did things that a hard working system could bring after many months, or even couplaf years. Its xlent for people who do not know computers, once again, like m$ windows users that also get fanatic about it. I call it blunt ignorance, since they do not have the experience. I find it a very bad excuse that its BSD based, since there is nothing you can do with the *nix, and since AQUA takes control, then its windows story once again. I hoped that it would be stable. ITS NOT. And apple charges toooo much for selling you such a solution. If it was a choice of these two, I would go back to m$, its much better supported by users than the mac community. but then ... there is Debian and Ubuntu.
People would buy a car for the design, that breaks every 10000miles. Its a show off. I preffer a car thats got the horsepower and would not break for a million miles, even if it has no stereo or leather seats. Dont compare cars with me... please.. cause even if mine breaks accidentally, Iĺl fix it on the road myself. Got 25years behind me in OSs and I deliver. (in cars too)
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