hey: if you like a mac use it (i like my powerbook and i use it), be happy that you don’t have to go through all the crap windows users go through. Same old tired issues coming from both sides. The fact that the report abuse link doesn’t work has made this thread one of the worst yet. the world wants compatability more than fancy plastic cases and cute icons. people buy windows pcs so that things work the smoothest. The main reason why the whole world buys windows computers, regardless of its attendant problems, is that they want to avoid all of the problems this article mentions. and actually, much of that is not a NEED, but vanity…specifically the vanity of the wealthy in North America, Europe, and Japan. we all know that less than 1.8% of the computer using population of the world now finds it has NEED of a mac. So unless you NEED a mac for some specific reason, buying one is a game for the vain. if one cares about style and looks, on the pc side, instead of a few basic choices (emac, imac, powermac, ibook, and powerbook)one has the option of choosing literally hundreds of styles, shapes, and colors to match ones taste and decor. Macs are no more stylish than plenty of pcs made. Macs since os x are no easier to use than windows xp. “and your colleagues will be asking why your computer is so much cooler and easier to use than theirs” To make up reasons why one would sneak a mac into a biz is a bit odd. If there is a need for a mac than the it shop will have them on hand for whatever reason warrants it. compiling that thing through vpc would be heresy, we can’t wait 4 days for it to compile.Īnd real developer would love to use nix. The things I hate are the fact that I have to sometimes fix some bugs for one our windows vc++ applications. Why can’t they just make things that work and are compatible?Īll presentations work fine through openoffice or mac office 2004. Normally it gets stuck in safari, fucking m$. The things that I hate are that my corporation relies on microsoft technology for their internal website, anytime you need to edit a timecard or download a patch, or get help from the help desk, you have to go through this abominable set of asp pages. You can also run applications remotely with X11. My workplace is a unix and mainframe shop, we usually ssh into one of the large clustered servers so it doesn’t matter if you’re using mac, windows, linux, or amiga, so long as you have a tcp/ip stack and some ssh/ssl libraries. and what’s the problem with gay people? Homophobic? Click this, and then check Scavenge to have DiskWarrior recover files.And i’ve got a really hot girlfriend. When it’s red, you really need to run DiskWarrior, both to make the directory more efficient, and to fix problems that can become serious.ĭiskWarrior optimizing an external hard drive.įor serious issues, select a disk in DiskWarrior, press the Option key, and the Rebuild button becomes Rebuild…. If it’s yellow, this suggests that the directory is “not efficient.” This is a good time to run DiskWarrior to prevent problems from arising. Green is good, meaning that the directory is not fragmented. Click it to launch it, and then select a disk to analyze, optimize, and repair.ĭiskWarrior shows up in the OS X Utilities window when you boot from a flash drive.ĭiskWarrior displays a Directory Optimization Index for each drive. When you boot from the updated flash drive, which replicates your Recovery partition, DiskWarrior appears in the OS X Utilities window. (Or, better yet, a different flash drive, 2 GB or larger, so you can keep the original intact.) You can also use the DiskWarrior Recovery Maker to update the flash drive to be able to boot your Mac directly. More detailed requirements for running DiskWarrior.) To boot from the DiskWarrior flash drive on a newer Mac, you need to boot to your Recovery partition and then run a Terminal command to launch the software. However, because of the way Macs now work, you can only start up your computer directly from the flash drive if it was originally delivered with OS X 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6.
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