[TheForge] OT- for computer geeks OT OT OT ( sounds like seals)

[Andrew Vida]

John Husvar wrote:

> And some people have the unbelievable gall to sniff at Macs, which have 
> been based on Unix for the last several iterations of their OS! :)

	Macs are great.

> It's _possible_ to crash a Mac, but you have to work at it. Since I 
> built it, this thing's been stable as my anvil with no temptations to 
> use it for one, unlike my wife's XP box.

	Well, I've found that it isn't that hard to crash an APPLICATION, but 
crashing the OS is very difficult to do, and I can break any software 
you care to name... it's a dangerous gift.
> 
> BTW: XP likes mucho RAM to roll around in and so does OS X. The more you 
> install, the faster the machine goes.

	That's the problem I'm experiencing with this manchine I'm now usong. 
256M with a 2.something GHz processor and it's like a stone, which is 
absurd, but it pages more than I think it ought to.  Time to blow it out 
to a 1G core and let the po' thang breathe a little.
> 
> Unix/linux has always see,ed better in some ways than MS-Stuff, but I 
> have to admit XP's almost a real OS and Mickey$oft's programmers are no 
> slouches - even though they do write some of the most bloated code in 
> the Known Universe:)

	Well, Dan the Genius has a point about this (he works for MS): you can 
load that OS on any machine and it will work.  That requires a lot of 
tricky stuff, and I give MS all due credit for undertaking such a 
formiddable task and doing it as well as they do, but there are aspects 
of their fundamental design philosophy that are simply stupid from the 
purely technical standpoint.  They are, however, pure genius from the 
standpoint of marketing and maintaining a stranglehold on upgrades, 
whichi translates directly into lots of cash.  Success is pretty 
difficult to argue with and MS has been as successful as any company ever.


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