Mac Life
A few of you asked how Mac life was lately. Been using my MacBook Pro since last Nov and cant believe how fast it is compared to my previous PowerBook. Ran into a few annoyances when moving my data over from the PowerBook - mainly permissions and a few MYSQL socket problems. The magnet socket is a nice welcome but never use the built in camera or remote.
Got the Apple Cinema Display recently - funnily enough Microsoft employees get up to 12% off Apple products - no wonder there are so many Mac/iPod users at MS!
Tried to use the display as my primary monitor which means a closed laptop. Dont know about people with this setup but it just does not work for me. The machine wakes up at the slightest move of the mouse - whats worse is that the system wakes up after a few seconds if *anything* is plugged into the USB sockets at the back of the display. Was worried about the display not being bright enough when considering the purchase but its very bright.
Tried to use the display as my primary monitor which means a closed laptop. Dont know about people with this setup but it just does not work for me. The machine wakes up at the slightest move of the mouse - whats worse is that the system wakes up after a few seconds if *anything* is plugged into the USB sockets at the back of the display. Was worried about the display not being bright enough when considering the purchase but its very bright.
Switched to using Mac OSX in April 2005. I wanted to try out OSX after using Windows for almost ten years. The first purchase was a Mac Mini and thought it was worth investing the 60000 yen yen to try it out. I fell in love with the system and immediately ordered a PowerBook. The Mac Mini is now attached to the plasma for browsing and watching opensource videos.
Took me a while but I eventually got my wife to switch to Mac too ^^. Maintaining Windows was such a pain. I spent too much of my time maintaining rather than computing. Maintaining OSX is such a breeze and making a copy of the system is too easy. You can even back up your system to a different partition on your iPod and boot from it. You can even make encrypted copies of your system or data and hide the hard disk around your friends house when they are not looking (always best to keep an off-site copy of your data).
Took me a while but I eventually got my wife to switch to Mac too ^^. Maintaining Windows was such a pain. I spent too much of my time maintaining rather than computing. Maintaining OSX is such a breeze and making a copy of the system is too easy. You can even back up your system to a different partition on your iPod and boot from it. You can even make encrypted copies of your system or data and hide the hard disk around your friends house when they are not looking (always best to keep an off-site copy of your data).
The best thing about mac for me is that its Unix based which means my localhost environment is the same as what runs this site. I used to have a ton of problems trying to run Apache on a Windows machine. Have also been able to beef up my Unix command line skills too ^^;
If you are fed up of using Windows - you may want to just give OSX a try. Now that Mac machines are now all Intel - you can always switch back to Win anytime. You dont have to worry about some of your fave Win apps not running on a Mac as now there are apps like Parallels that allow you to run OSX and Win at the same time.
When my company is up and running - all the office machines will be Macs to save on hiring a network admin guy/gal.
Mirai wallpaper - will upload soon (promise ^^;)
Adapter for Apple Cinema Display is huge.
My room of late - got bigger shelves for the figures.