no thanks. it’s not like os x is perfect but things like this tend to only make it worse. although pressing that nice looking button might give you a feeling you just did something. there is no alternative to knowledge. at least from a serious/scientific approach. (if the books from mohammed or jesus or whomever suit you ignorance might work out just as good for you, somebody else might clean your mess or at least pose as the one to blame)

not sure about your distro, but better to install the KALYWAY version. do a nice search and you’ll get RS linkz easily.

keep them coming!

thanx

FinitySoft Memory Manager 4.0

There is no such thing as “Mac hardware”. Anybody that has tried getting wireless drivers working in *NIX will be able to tell you that there are no such things as “Linksys/D-Link/Netgear” wireless chipsets. In fact, with the hundreds of manufacturers, there are less than a dozen actual chipsets. Ralink/Prism/Zydas/Broadcom/Atheros are names that will not ring a bell, but if you use multiple adapters in windows and you are surprised that the “linksys” drivers are interoperable with “d-link,” there is your answer.

This is true for EVERY piece of hardware. We all know Nvidia and ATI license their chipsets to other manufacturers.

Finally, if you think, “I have a HP/Sony/Asus/Acer/Dell/etc” laptop, than I urge you to google “Quanta.”
They are the Taiwanese corp that build %70 of all lappies.

food for though

ps *NIX users in this thread seem to be coherent. A stereotype I hope will be perpetuated.

Most people here are techies and most of the mac people here are, I assume, pretty technical on that side. Those of us with Macs put them to use, we know the limits, we know the benefits, we know the OS, and I a sure more than just me have cracked open and iMac to upgrade the HD. I use mine for Network design and administration, terminal is my friend. Yes, I do some photo stuff and design work, but that is just because it is their and easy to use, but we are talking iPhoto and Pages, not heavy duty adobe stuff. SO, you hear pro mac stuff from real geeks here, not fan boys.

Mac doesn’t run “out of the box” on plain old X86 systems because it is EFI only. Now, it would in theory run on an Itanium out of the box… It has been hacked though to use BIOS, it just isn’t all that great. Now Vista can run on EFI out of the box also (so they say). We have to get clear also, Mac hardware is NOT expensive, well, not when compared to any equivalent PC.. $1,199 for a 2.0 Ghz Core 2 duo, 250 Gb Hard Drive, gig of Ram, Dual-layer DVD, 20″ widescreen HD glossy flat-panel, awesome webcam, mouse, keyboard and tons of software… Or for $599 you can get nearly the same thing without the monitor and accessories. So, when you compare it, the price is not bad, it’s not like they are $3,000 machines base price and corsair memory is $59 for a 2gb chip at some places…

I am a Linux user also, member of the FSF, I run my own hosting company on CentOS, but I prefer Ubuntu Server. As a server, Linux is king… It still has a way to go for the Desktop, if it even ever makes the mainstream desktop market. It works, but it requires some skills. Easy to use, yes, easy to install basic programs, yes, pretty GUI, yeah.. but let a suer try to do something more than just use it, and all hell breaks loose. It needs that right person, not for everyone, Personally, I find it a pain in the ass as a desktop system, I like to relax when I am not working with a server… Plus, really, I think an open Desktop is just asking for trouble, not everyone has good intentions.

So, if anything, being a Linux user and assuming you aren’t a hardcore GNU Nut, I would think you would be praising OS X. I mean, it IS Linux for the desktop done right. Well it is (BSD, GNU, MACH, AND Linux) for the desktop done right. Either way, you now have people on an easy to use OS that has that Linux structure. Those users can easily move to a Linux box without many problems… Windows users just go /? I like my \… then they get confused when they can’t find the registry on a MAC.

While I am at it, if anyone needs hosting, e-mail me, I have tons of left over space so server is going to waste, legit stuff only though. Time for some spamming! torchwood2008 at mac dot com.