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Save being flamed here but I quite like my Mac - it beats the pants out of BSOD several times a week and twice on Sunday. Since I need to run windows apps unfortunately the ability to take a snapshot has been a godsend. Allows for the "should I allow MS to send me updates that might mess me up and break my pc". Really nice to rewind to before an bl**dy hell situation. My only and biggest gripe is that the MAC implementation of VMWare (Fusion) had to be different so I cannot use tap/tun interfaces to talk to other environments like Dynamips. It also costs money when the Linux variations don't. If I had known about this before hand I might not have gone this way and used a Desktop/laptop distribution. Just a thought though - I know that (again tempting being flamed) people are going to be biased here. But if I wanted a secure out of the box distro which way should I go ? Best regards Mick E: mick@xxxxxxxxxxxx > From: David Bell <grimpen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Organization: RMG > Reply-To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:07:53 +0100 > To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [LUG] How to look cool and be able to compute as well > > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:29:00 Tom Potts wrote: >> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 09:36, David Bell wrote: >>> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 08:28:26 Tom Potts wrote: > >>>> SI rating ?? >> >> Self Importance > >> I always used to find Macs on the desks/laps of very self important people >> who had to have a Mac to do their special work - even if that did involve >> 'special' support problems for MS products on the Mac which seemed to be >> the only things they used it for computing wise. The only Mac program I >> ever wrote was a random key-click player which gave a good illusion of >> someone typing (ie verbatim note taking) during meetings while games were >> played. > > I bought a MacBook 2 years ago. However, it has been relegated (after a few > weeks use) as a doorstop between updates/upgrades once in a blue moon: > preferring to use Debian 5 on my 17 inch Acer Aspire :) > > -- > W. Devon > -------------- > A GNU/Linux user > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html