OSX

Saturday, November 16, 2002

ThankYou John and the NoSuch!  And I'm Away Until Wednesday... I needed some help getting OSX upgraded and John and the Nosuch both came through with bells on.  John took care of a number of OSX idiocies on my part including helping me grovel through the OS X root account issue.  Many, many thanks to both of you.  I've spent like 4 days straight using OSX now and while I do think it's beautiful, I think it's not right for me.  Having to keep a mental model of how OS X differs from Windows and Linux is just too damn hard.  If I could give up on one of the other platforms?  Maybe.  But that's never going to happen.  John said "You know too much" and maybe that's so.  Or maybe I'm too old (34, almost 35) and set in my computing ways. I've been on an Intel derived processor base now for 24 odd continuous years now and that's a long ass time.  I have nothing but respect for those that can concurrently use both but I just can't.  The mixture of keyboard differences, Windowing model differences, alt+tab, terminal's lameness, application installation differences, *nix subtleties (scp is subtly different as is ls and help has been removed from a number of standard gnu tools).  That said OSX is just beautiful and I wish I could tolerate it.  It's definitely the right choice for a lot of people. But My iBook is now a demonstrable machine for PHP and MySQL apps.  And since I'm leaving on a trip until Wednesday where I need that, that's wonderful.   So, in my typical traveling disconnectedness, I'll be without email and without IM and without blog until Wednesday AM at the earliest.  Best to everyone.  7:33:59 PM  Google It!  comment []