17 Oct
2011
17 Oct
'11
9:33 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Ethan Dicks wrote:
What's getting me right now is the little differences between how MacOS
does things and how I'm used to doing them in Windows. I need to nail
down in my head the copy/paste short cuts for example. :) I only bought
it because building a Hacktintosh was more hassle than I wanted to deal
with (although it would have been a MUCH better value in the long run). I
want to be able to write software for my iPad - I can't stand to have a GP
computer I can't write software for if I want to. :)
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb
at deltasoft.com> wrote:
I recently purchased a MacBook myself. Getting used to the touchpad has
been the hardest part - I'm going to just punt and grab my USB Kensington
Trackball. :)
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Jonas Otter wrote:
Absolutely. When I was offered the choice in 2007 between a
work-provided Lenovo Thinkpad (on which I would have run RedHat) or a
MacBook (on which I would have left OS X, unlike some associates I
know), I jumped on the MacBook. I loved it. First thing I had to
fix, though, was putting the Terminal icon in the nav bar.
Seeing that OS X is in some sense Unix-based, I
would say DMR won...
It's not in "some sense", it *IS*. ?It just
happens to be saddled with a really weird window manager and a one button mouse. :)
It works fine with a multi-button mouse, you just can't get one from
the manufacturer. As for the weird window manager, I just used it to
keep track of a couple of browser windows and a thick stack of
terminal sessions. I don't care what color or shape the widgets are -
I just need to close windows, move windows, and open more terminal
sessions. Nearly everything else is irrelevant.
Oh... and to tie in the recent thread on X, I left
that MacBook in my
room (this was at the South Pole where we had individual LAN drops for
a personal computer and a VOiP phone) and used it from all over
station by firing up xterms and occasionally browser windows. I _did_
run a session back to North America once or twice, but the bandwidth
What would be neat (for me anyway) is a remote desktop client that I could
run on a Windows box that would allow me access to the native MacOS
desktop (and the XCode IDE from there)...
g.
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