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| Re: Totally OT: DVD R's what's the difference [message #61984 is a reply to message #61972] |
Thu, 29 December 2005 00:26  |
erlilo
Messages: 405
Registered: June 2005
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>That's right, your a Windoz user, so please don't act like your not. I'll
>bet your even Microsoft certified!!! Aren't you? Or should I say brain
>washed! You may network Macs, but that doesn't mean you use them or really
>know shit about them. You make your statements based on what you read,
try
>using a Mac with OSX, and only OSX for a year then get back to all the Mac
>guys here. Then you can tell us how shitty Apple is as a company, and how
>inefficient and unusable Mac OSX is. As others have said, it's Mac bashing
>and it's getting old. I post some thing about what is going on,FYI for
the
>Mac guys, and you go on the attack. It is obvious you hate Apple Computer,
>so don't try to come off as an equal opportunity hater, it's insulting our
>intellect.
As far as my qualifications, I'm not an MSCE and in fact I have no formal
computer training at all. I have a dusty old humanities B.A. around here
somewhere. As far as my knowledge of Macs, you might want to google my name
along with words like "audio" "Apple" and "computers" to see what shows up.
I probably had 30 articles published about Macs and audio before 90% of the
people currently using computers for music had heard of one. I've been at
this long enough that I remember booting into Open Firmware and having to
learn a little bit about Forth scripting in order to boot [pirated] beta
versions of BeOS and some Linux distro on a 603e based Mac. Am I a "Winoz"
user? Yes and no. At my job I take care of about 30 servers (if you count
virtual machines, which I do) that are probably 70/30 XP/linux. The office
where I work is married to Exchange so that forces me into a certain set
of choices (as an aside, more than Windows or Office it's Exchange/Outlook
that keeps M$oft's strangle hold on business computing). The linux boxes
are mostly email related machines (spam filters, virus checkers) or file/web
servers. I also take care of four Solaris 8 boxes and two PIX firewalls.
The clients are XP with a smattering of Macs.
In my house I have three Debian machines and one XP box as my audio computer
because SX and Live are the backbone of my music making. The difference between
the M$oft machines at work and my home Debian boxes is like the difference
between going to work and going on vacation. With Debian, computers are FUN
again, I get to mess with the innards of the OS, break things horribly, learn
about how to fix them, download new programming languages and web servers
whenever I want. I actually have a shell script that uses about eight apps
to take the live input from a sound card or capture the main sound output
of the OS into a perfectly compressed audio file automatically. Something
I still haven't been able to do on a M$oft box.
So, I'm
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